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What works of philosophy have the best prose? The worst?
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What works of philosophy have the best prose? The worst?
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>>7722036
I'd say Thus spoke Zarathustra, although I loathed it.
Derrida might have the worst
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Nietzsche is fun to read. Hegel is not.
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>>7722036
Either/Or is the best tbqh.
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Best: Plato, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche.

Worst: every German idealist not named Schopenhauer.
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>>7722036
Symposium. Plato puts a physician, a lawyer, a comedian, a drunk, and Socrates in a room and successfully gives them all personality through writing style alone.

I also found Marcus Aurelius easy to read, though idea-wise inferior to Epictetus. Cicero's on friendship and on old age also have great flow to them.
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>>7722263
>Best: Plato, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche.
I'd also add Bertrand Russell.
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