Is it normal to stop liking fiction after delving deep into philosophy ?
Is it normal to stop liking fiction after delving deep into philosophy ?
Ayden Ross
Josiah Rogers
I delved pretty deep into your mom's philosophy last night
Wyatt Wright
No. If anything it shows the way in which you’ve deadened your capacity for aesthetic appreciation by not varying your reading habits enough.
Angel Myers
Congratulations, you became a true intellectual and can now fully appreciate true critical thinking.
Living in other people's fantasies is pathetic.
Jason Jackson
Why do you keep making this thread
James Davis
>congratulations, you became a true intellectual and can now appreciate only a very narrow slice of all the literature ever written
FTFY. Imagine being this wilfully ignorant of the ways in which the philosophical and literary traditions intersect
Angel Moore
For a while but your appreciation for it will return once your philosophy phase passes
Samuel Jones
Philosophy is fiction
Logan Rogers
Fiction literature is nothing more than applied philosophy, every single bit of truth you'll find in fiction you'll also find in non-fiction.
Jackson Sullivan
And your reluctance to read fiction reflects your closed-minded refusal to “apply” the knowledge you’ve gleaned from your philosophical readings. A philosophical text is not “applied” philosophy, and in fact neither is fiction- the application is in using the text to model various philosophical ideas and concepts, not that those ideas are imminent to the work itself. Your approach to philosophy is incredibly static, no wonder you don’t see the value in fiction, you lack the poetic imagination required to invest it with greater significance than originally intended by the author, which is what philosophical enquiry SHOULD do to a text.