Hi guys I'm 18 and want to develop a critical thinking and read to understand the world better in general. What should I read?
This is what I was thinking about:
>Greeks
Mythology (Edith Hamilton)
Iliad
Odyssey
Socrates
Plato >Marx
Capital
Manifesto >Christian
Bible
The Divine comedy >Jung
Man and his symbols >Freud
On narcissism
Interpretation of dreams >Darwin
Origin of species >Machiavelli >Camus
Sisyphus
The stranger >Nietzsche
Zarathustra
Antichrist
Beyond Good and Evil >Kierkegaard
Fear and Trebling >Dostoevsky
Crime and punishment
The Player >Others
How to win friends and influence people I tend to believe power is the only important thing and I have faith on trans humanism. Tell me if any of these are too ambitious and give me recommendations pls.
Sorry for the spacing and if there are mistakes I dont speak english and used a text corrector.
Matthew Ross
READ THE IEP / SEP
Cameron Peterson
>here is what I'm PLANNING to read just read it. Anything is worth reading when you're starting out. Add Mark Fisher and Evola.
Christopher Smith
Ok guys I will have a look at this books. Well I dont want to read something I camt understand, like the Anti-Oedipus or stuff like that.
Evan Cruz
Read more, plan less. Anyway after reading all of this isn't guaranteed that you'll develop critical thinking. You're not making a cake, there's no recipes/formulas.
Adrian Jackson
Start with Edith Hamilton and move into some of Plato's dialogues and Homer. I also recommend Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and the Constellation of Philosophy by Boethius.
Connor Bailey
Uhh I live in small town in russia, no internet I go to a big city like one time wvery 2 months I have to buy a lot of books if I want to read them
Hunter Jackson
well the iliad and odyssey won’t help with critical thinking, poetry is all against that sort of thing & i don’t see why age is relevant
Liam Ortiz
if you have no internet, maybe the best thing to do would be to download a copy of the routledge encyclopedia of philosophy and read an article a day.
Brayden Murphy
I will look this up, ty
Oliver Cruz
What are your interests? This is your starting point. Be very specific! It is important to only read those things that interest you (needless to say, this excludes anything you need to read for your studies, if you're engaged in those). If a book bores you after a few pages, put it away and grab a new one. After you developed a decent list of your interests, read entry level material on the subject. The Stanford Encyclopedia provides both good entry material as well as lots of referential material you may wish to consult on a broad range of subjects. Good luck with your endeavors, user!
Dylan Allen
Power, dreams and the evolution of the human race.
Do some mathematics as well, unless you absolutely despise it. Sloppy thinking isn't tolerated in mathematics.
Joshua Hernandez
This is a fucking mess of a list. If you want to read Marx in a non retard way, you need to read Hegel, for Hegel you need Kant, for Kant you should read Descartes and Hume. All in all, start with the greeks. For economy, Adam Smith is the starting point, not Marx. And Freud? Really?
Jayden Perry
nothing wrong with freud. at least nothing that isn't shared by the whole fraternity of psychoanalysis.
Ethan Ward
>Marx Just kys and get it over with
Cameron Bell
What? How old are you, 15? Whats the problem with Marx? Even if you dont like him you have to know what he wrote to criticize.
Isaac Nelson
>b-but he's literally a Jew! Best to ignore the racists. Not good to generalise teenagers though.
Wyatt Peterson
Im 18 mate but most of my friends are edgy fags who think Peterson is a God and Marx retarded. The other half wear che shirts and comunist stickers on their Iphones. Ideology + Teenagers is bad, this is why I made this post I wanna think by myself.
Isaiah Jones
lol cringe as fuck. But don't worry, you'll soon pass this "phase" too pseud
Carson Murphy
I was told most of theese books are classics and musts
Jace Peterson
>want to develop a critical thinking and read to understand the world better in general. Reading will not always give you these things. You have to do. Perform. Act. In order to develop critical thinking, study and engage in mathematics (as another user said). To understand the world around you and to understand reality, go out and experience it. That is how you gain understanding. Now, reading will help you understand history, which in turn can help you understand yourself and the culture you live in. I'm not saying to avoid reading, I'm saying that there are more essential things you must do. Live.
Dominic Peterson
Machiavelli the Prince.
>be me at 18 >read The Prince >omg this guy was sooo jaded no way people are really like that >work 15 years in Corporate world, watch all the most incompetent suck ups and bullshitters get promoted >be me at 38 - OMG he was right about everything
Angel Roberts
I'm your age and just getting into reading. I've just read meditations (very repetitive and boring but sets a great mindset) and am currently reading invisible man. I've also ordered philosophy books from Plato such as The Republic (which I've heard is actually very flawed), Apology, and Rhetoric.
Lincoln Cooper
>Socrates >Plato socrates doesn't have his own work, we just see plato using him as a character in his own works add aristotle
if you're going to read the bible you may as well read the quran at some point too since it influenced a lot
