What are 10 essential philosophy texts I should read that will make me big brained
What are 10 essential philosophy texts I should read that will make me big brained
Liam Barnes
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Nolan Hernandez
just mix n match any 10 books from your library's philosophy section and you'll be 1000x bigger brained than the vast majority of people
Samuel Lee
The Republic
The Bible
The City of God
The Summa Theologica
The Crisis of the Modern World
The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times
Revolt Against the Modern World
Men Among the Ruins
Ride the Tiger
The Metaphysics of War
Angel Howard
Low Iq as fuck
Don't breed
Eli Butler
dilate
Aaron King
OP said 10 not 1 philosophy book followed by a bunch of theology and crap.
Wyatt Brooks
know that i could curb stomp you and there would be nothing you could do about it
Grayson Sanders
I’m glad you understand that the Bible contains real philosophy Butterfly, but you must awaken your mind and look upward to the heavens to see that the Summa is not mere crap :3
Jonathan Campbell
this
Sebastian Flores
The Zhuangzi
Pensees by Pascal
Ethics by Spinoza
Capital by Marx
Process and Reality by Whitehead
The Logic of Sense by Deleuze
Steps to an Ecology of Mind by Bateson
Cosmopolitics by Stengers
Aesthetic Theory by Adorno
Infinite Conversations by Blanchot
Ethan Roberts
>The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
>Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
>The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life by Michael Puett
>On Love by Alain de Botton
>At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails by Sarah Bakewell
>The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
>Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
>A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine
>Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story by Jim Holt
>The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten: 100 Experiments for the Armchair Philosopher by Julian Baggini
Matthew Ward
Butt3rfly's recs
Jaxson Perez
Why is there so much Finnish frogposting on this board?
Sebastian Wood
Again, just the three in the corner.
Maybe Russell, Dennett seems fine too, but I haven’t had time to read them.
Hate Harris and Hitch just writes well
Levi Nelson
First Philosophers by Waterfield , contains most major pre-plato philosophers of Greece
Then,
Plato Five Dialogues,
Aristotle Complete Works
Huge time gap here. There's other philosophers between Greeks and Descartes. But, gotta keep this concise. If you want to do the inbetween stuff, here.
>The Stoic Trilogy, The Essential Epicurus, The Enneads by Plotinus,
>Plutarchs' Moralia, Proclus' Elements Of Theology, Agustines' Confessions, Aquinas' Shorter Summa,
back to main works, even though there's more I missed. Trying to list list the main works only.
Philosophical Writings by Descartes
Critique Of Pure Reason by Kant
Phenomenology Of Spirit by Hegel
World As Will And Representation by Schopenhauer
Beyond Good And Evil by Nietzsche’s
Either Or by Kierkegaard
The Ego And It's Own by Stirner
There's so much to philosophy, This is just a personal starter kit. For authors like Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche it might be better to start with their easier works. The ones listed are their most important, but the best starter books for them are
Groundwork Of The Metaphysics Of Morals by Kant
Philosophy Of History by Hegel
Principle Of Sufficient Reason by Schopenhauer
Untimely Meditations by Nietzsche
Read those instead if you want an easier go. Most importantly, even though it's not philosophy, How To Read A Book by Adler. Specifically made for philosophical reading instructions. Great book.
This starts out alright but devolves quickly.
Caleb Perry
We're reaching levels of pseud that shouldn't be possible.
Nathaniel King
dilate
Jack Price
Dialogues - Plato
The Republic - Plato
Metaphysics - Aristotle
The Hermetica - Hermes Trismegistus
Summa Theologica - Thomas Aquinas
Critique of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant
Phenomenology of Spirit - Georg Hegel
Being and Time - Martin Heidegger
Process and Reality - Alfred Whitehead
The Collected Works of C. G. Jung - Carl Jung
Isaac Baker
The only reason you can spend all day here posting brainlet takes is because you obviously dedicate 0 time to actually reading.
John Lee
>Asked for 10, gives 9
Brayden Cook
You read any Calasso yet? This is my first. Pretty interesting so far, though I can’t agree with some of his conclusions.
Kevin Bennett
Warburton's Philosophy: The Basics
Magee's Story of Philosophy
Waterfield's The First Philosophers
Hackett's Five Dialogues of Plato
Modern Library's Basic Works of Aristotle
Penguin's Complete Essays of Montaigne
Cambridge's Meditations on First Philosophy
Any edition of Treatise on Human Nature
Princeton's Either/Or
Modern Library's Basic Writings of John Stuart Mill
These are all quite easy as well
Levi Wood
Isn't the republic also one of plato's dialogues?
Nathan Cruz
Ignore this plebtier list OP
Aaron Price
The Foundation for Exploration
Xavier Stewart
Read anything but philosophy. That shit is for idiots that cannot think for themselves. Just look at this board of "intellectuals".
Oliver Perez
Fuck off
Isaac Bennett
hermetic texts
meditations
satanic bible
all you need desu
Connor Scott
>satanic bible
Which one?
Carson Morgan
LaVeyan.
Austin Carter
>says after they gave the only three books they ever read
Robert James
Cringe
Noah Hall
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Read these dialogues, in this order:
Alcibiades 1, Gorgias, Phaedo, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, Phaedrus, Symposium, Philebus, Timaeus, Parmenides
Read the first 10 as a group, and then the last 2 as another group. The first ten gradually unfold the doctrines of memory, soul, reincarnation, ascent, etc, as well as proper virtue. Timaeus is about everything generated, from the demiurge and the pantheon of gods down to the physical kosmos. The Parmenides is about the higher Reality and Eternal things.