Someone just give me a comprehensive list of books to read in order to become smart like you...

Someone just give me a comprehensive list of books to read in order to become smart like you. Some of you are so fucking smart and I'm retarded and I want to be smart like you. Pic related that's me in the centre browsing Yea Forums.

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The sticky has a wiki. There are charts in the wiki. The trivium, the Greeks, Yea Forums core. All great places to start.

If you want to pretend to be smart like all of us an participate in discussion simply do this
>Read the Greeks
>Read Capital Vol. 1
>Read the Wikipedia summaries of all of nietzsche's work
>Read Whitehead
>Read the bible and
>Read Guénon

don't read, dream.

This. If you don’t want to follow the chart exactly, I’d say start with The Trivium, then move onto the presocratics. Homer and maybe some greek history (Herodotus is usually recommend alongside Thucydides). So pick up those. If you feel like you’re having trouble grasping certain themes or your reading comprehension is still not up to par, either take notes to bring related thoughts to completion, or re-do the trivium in accord with your readings. Work on developing reading comprehension and structural analysis. This will take your far in your lit jouney Plato and Aristotle’s conplete works are required reading. After them I just jumped right into the vedanta and philosophers like Hegel, Hume, Kant, and Camus. There’s enough gems in each of these works to keep your focus for decades. However, stagnation is generally detrimental. Read more on sociology/psychology and use that knowledge to draw connections and scaffold what you’ve learned.

You can repeat this process so long as you can manage to relate the knowledge found in subjects to human social and intellectual affairs.

Lastly, and most importantly, the Truth. You want to put knowledge to the test to see if it’s worthwhile to have in the same way that you would (should) try a particular violin before purchasing it. If you know something that is generally non-applicable in reality, or is just used as intellectual libe to get your rocks off, I’d advise you stay away from it after having analyzed why it can’t be applied.

Enough blowharding from me.
Start, stick to it, and strive with focus and discipline. Best of luck.

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Nigga I'm retarded

It isn't any particular book, but years and years of reading and articulating your thoughts. But that said, read philosophy.

I want to help you user, but my sincere opinion is that for starters you should get a good outline of most of the major historical philosophers through a syllabus that prioritizes important excerpts from longer works and complete shorter, introductory works. Having a good professor also helps. Only after you know the basics do you dive in to the bigger systematic works that you really want to read. Otherwise you'll spend your life stuck with the Greeks and medievals before reading something simple like Descartes. After you've really mastered the basics and start to dive deeper you can also explore lesser known works and philosophers according to your interests. The only people telling you to read entire works in sequential order like an excessive completionist are people trying to be autodidacts with no resources, but it's so much reading with plenty filler (unless you already love and ant that) that most of them say it without really doing it. Maybe one day I'll make a Yea Forums syllabus. If you find syllabi online from philosophy classes on ancient and modern philosophy maybe check them out.

Some introductory basics that you don't need to reduce to excerpts:

Fragments by the Pre-Socratics, Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Meno, at least books 1 and 2 of the Republic, Aristotle's Categories, Descartes' Meditations, Berkeley's Principles, Hume's Enquiry, Kant's Prolegomenna and Groundwork. Other anons can add other short/introductory works to the list if they want.

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POLLON D’ANTHRŌPON IDEN (Pentagon of Pound)

The Odes
The Homeric Epos
Metamorphoses
Divina Commedia
The Plays

That is a fairly solid pentagon. And to the Odes col-
lected by Kung, add the Ta Hio, The Unwavering in the Middle, the Analects. By Plays, I mean (and I trust even the lowest reader will not fail to gather the meaning) those of Shakespeare (Shxper, Jacquespere with no regard to the spelling).

If you read these, OP, then you shall no more than 90% of /lit. Good luck.

The smartest people are the most moral people. These people are reflections of Gods true spirit. Followed very closely are creative/artistic people, the kind you would consider naturally talented. Then you have the disciplined people, they could also be in the arts but their talent comes from a lot of discipline and practice, these people could literally be anything doctors engineers lawyers theologians, etc. then you have people who are good at following rules and they are really good at posing. These people just orient themselves with their idea of goodness, talent, discipline, but but inherently they have no idea what they’re doing they just sort of follow. Their craft is being really good at imitating. Then you have Normie‘s, who really don’t know how to do anything they get by with mommy and daddy‘s money and they somewhat vaguely comprehend these other people, but mostly these people just fill up sports stadiums .

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>Hegel, Hume, Kant, and Camus

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Go consult the lit wiki and the Yea Forums philosophy project. just search it up. here's my list dude. also, it really depends on how much you want to learn. Use the /sci/ wiki too, that lists science book reccs. for history try oxford releseses, they got the fuckin Atlas Of World History and specific books for all prehistoric shit. cool stuff.
-to start, some optional preliminary
>A Mind For Numbers by Oakley / How To Read A Book by Adler (Also his work A Guidebook To Learning) /
these offer the guide you'll have to apply to the following books and more. don't feel restricted to this list though, go in any order, reading anything is good. you can apply these books to ones on the /sci/ wiki too
-next, the full start to the greeks
>A Brief History Of Ancient Greece (or the long version but it expensive)
>Mythology by Hamilton (yes it's a meme, don't take it too seriously, just a good introduction.)
>The Illiad by Homer, trans. Lattimore (or Fagels)
>The Odysee by Homer, trans. Fagels (or Lattimore)
>The Histories by Herodotus trans. Waterfield
>The First Philosophers by Waterfield
>Plato Complete Works, Oxford edition
>Aristotle Complete Works, Oxford edition
-congrats you started with the greeks, feel free to add in any other greek authors who interest you like Hesoid. Whoever.
-resume with the romans
>SPQR by Beard
>Enchirdion by Epictetus
>Meditations by Aurelius
>Letters by Seneca
-feel free to add in stuff like The Annals and others but whatever
-resume philosophy
>Moralia by Plutarch , Enneads by Plotinus, Elements Of Theology by Proclus
>Confessions by Augustine and Shorter Summa by Aquinas
-now would be a good time to take a slightly eastern deviation. note these texts can be read prior to fit in chronologically but I;m lazy
>Tao Te Ching, Principle Upnishads, Analects, Dammapada, whatever idk about these ones
-back to main philosophy
>Descartes Philosophical Works, Spinoza Complete Works, Leibniz Philosophical Essays, Lockes Essays Concerning Human Understanding
>Berkley's Philosophical Writings, Hume's Treastie Of Human Nature, Pascal's Pencese, Hobbe's Leviathain
>Basic Political Writings by Rousseau, Spirit of the Laws by Montesquieu, Political Writings by Price, Rights Of Man by Paine
>Utilitarinizm by Mill
then you do the classic
-> Kant -> Fichte -> Schelling -> Hegel -> Schoppenhaur
and then
>Nietzche -> Kierkegaard -> Satyre -> Stiener or whatever, ego dude
then
>Whitehead's Process And Reality -> Marx Capital -> Hitler Mein Kampth -> Rand Atlas Shruged
skip whatever don't intrest ya, add whatever does. it's best to go chronological most most the time, but where does Yea Forums start? the further back you go the more fragmented it gets. the point in time when the works started being preserved more is around Homer's era.

Richard Whately - Historic Doubts Relative to Napoleon Bonaparte
Alan Sillitoe - Travels In Nihilon
Bacardo Bramantip - The Abraham Lincoln Myth
Leif Petterson - Backpacking with Dracula
Adam English - The Saint Who Would Be Santa Claus
Dostoevsky - Demons
William Kittredge - The Nature of Generosity
Herman Melville - Billy Bud, Sailor
Tolkien - The Hobbit
Chesterton - The Man Who Was Thursday
John Bunyan - The Pilgrims Progress
Peter Turchin - War and Peace and War
Ecclesiastes
The Age of Sages
Mans Search For Meaning
Job
Fear and Trembling
What is it Like to be a Bat?
Novum Organum
The Republic books VI-VIII
Aristotles Metaphysics book XII
Xenophanes of Colophan - Fragments
Aquinas - Five Proofs
Gods Crime Scene
Augustine - On Nature and Grace
Charles Leslie - A Short and Easy Method With the Deists
The apology of Aristides
Justin Martyr’s 1st and 2nd apologies
Mere Christianity
The Didache
The Bible
Indirect Evidences in the New Testament For the Divinity of Christ
The Forgotten Trinity
Institutes of the Christian Religion
Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus
Forensic Faith
The Canon of the Old and New Testaments Ascertained
Patterns of Evidence: The Exodus
Historical and Chronological Context of the Bible
Discourses on Prophecy
James Macgregor - The Apology of the Christian religion
The Book of Acts in the Setting of Hellenistic History
Observations on the Conversion and Apostleship of St. Paul
Divine Origin of Christianity Deduced
Studies in the Theory and Method of New Testament Criticism
The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English
The Antiquities of the Jews
Philip Schaff History of the Christian Church
Answering Jewish Objections to Jesus: General and Historical Objections
Cheryl Leonard - The Shroud of Turin
Perspectives on Creation: Five Views on Its Meaning and Significance
Arthur Pink - The Sovereignty of God
David Bentley Hart - The Experience of God

How retarded user? If you’re actually slow, I wouldn’t recommend starting with the Greeks. Try some high-schoolcore classics like to kill a mockingbird and catcher in the rye. If these are trivial then start with the Greeks. I personally recommend the Trial and Death of Socrates. It’s short and it’s ideas aren’t too hard to grasp. it also serves as the launchpad for a lot of other Greek writers. Good luck, either way.

There's a way to become even smarter than the pompous idiots that are overflowing from this board. That secret is critical thinking.

Cause he's blowing hot air. It's amazing anyone here convinced OP they aren't complete retards

read to the point that you can't find a job and support yourself, are alone at all times, have constantly declining mental and physical health and have enough time in a day to show off your ostensible higher intellect in places like Yea Forums, so that you can maintain a facade of being intelligent on the internet but a total loser in real life

Here's a high quality low effort list:
>The Philosopher's Handbook
>German Philosophy 1760-1860
>Conservatism: An Anthology of Social and Political Thought from David Hume to the Present
>Reading Capital: The Complete Edition
>The Great Thoughts (Seldes)
>Trust: The Social Virtues and The Creation of Prosperity

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no one here is smart (except me)

that’s so nice of you to say that about me

>a loser in our industrial society
Who cares? Do what you want bru, nobody cares about anybody

Read the Greeks and read the Christians

The mistake you made was assuming that the majority of Yea Forums posters are smart.

Fuck you. Don't listen to this shallow boy op

Look up Harold Bloom's list of the canon. Read every book on it in chronological order start to finish. Then you will be entry-level Yea Forums

Jesus Christ. I can read a book a week. This will take me years and years and then I'll be dead before I finish the Greeks.

This. Died laughing after reading the OP and went to open the image up.

read the history of western philosophy by bertrand russell and then some classic literature along with classics like the illiad, Don Quixote, the divine comedy and the sorrows of young werther.

read the history of western philosophy by bertrand russell and then some classic literature like Don Quixote, the divine comedy and the sorrows of young werther.

well now I feel like the retard. my wifi connection is just horridly bad