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Where do I start? I've read the Greeks you fuck
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Where do I start?

I've read the Greeks you fuck
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Kant -> Schopenhauer -> Nietzsche -> Darwin -> Ludovici -> Stefan Molyneux
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Have you read all the Greeks, little one?
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>>8204501
The Romans.
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Fear and Trembling
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>>8204507

You forget Descartes. Some Hume can't harm either.
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Hegel
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>>8204501
>I've read the Greeks

lol no you haven't
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>>8204501
>I've read the Greeks
read 'em again

also, this >>8204555
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Works of Love
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Read what inspired the Greeks, that is the Egyptians. Without the Egyptians we wouldn't have the Greeks.
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>Dostoyevsky, Nietzsche, and Kierkegaard had planned on meeting up
>it never happened
>our timeline is doomed to the worst of all possible worlds
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>>8204664
source? I've never heard of this
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start with Slim Thug ft. Joel Osteen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-dM6ZpOvEE
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>>8204595

>Egyptians inspired greeks

more like the Sumers and early Persians, dunce.
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>>8204501
You don't need to read their work, but know about Hegel, Lessing, Descartes and Spinoza philosophy.

I recommend Jon Stewart, Jacob Howland and Alastair Hannay for better understanding of K.'s work.

The Concept of Irony is a good starting work. Other than that, maybe The Sickness unto Death, The Concept of Anxiety and Philosophical Scrumbles.

But always remember that Kierkegaard worked pretty much all of his books with pseudonyms.
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>>8204501
Are Camus and Sartre the best double negation of philosophy we can possibly pair? Does any other continental match their mystic but ambiguous style and philosophy, while still managing to act as almost polar opposites?
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>>8204501
i feel sorry for you if you've actually read the greeks. they are the most unentertaining things ever and you could have just read synopsis of their works
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>>8204664
>tfw you live in the timeline where Pound, Eliot, Joyce, W. Lewis, Belloc, Crowley, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway hung out or met each other
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Greeks--->A Confederacy of Dunces--->Schopenhauer--->Hume--->boipussy--->HEGEL--->Zizek--->Kant--->The Naked Lunch--->Stirner--->History Channel (Ice Truckers)--->History Channel (Ancient Aliens)--->Kafka--->Kierkegaard

if you want to read Kierkegaard you have to do it properly.
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>>8204501
I would recommend looking at the acclaimed empiricists (Locke', Berkeley, Hume), with a focus on Hume who is probably the most relevant empiricist of the bunch, and the rationalists (Desecrate, Spinoza, Leibniz). Obviously reading through all their works is extremely difficult, Locke' being infamously verbose to the point of denying the validity of his own authorship, so you might want to read a more general collection of their famous arguments (Something like Bertrand Russell's "History of Western Philosophy" which contains a somewhat subtle discourse between Bertrand and the philosophers he covers, giving the book a more than purely historical edge).
With a firm understanding of these philosophers it makes reading the existentialists, which most people immediately jump to without a firm understanding of the history of philosophy, far more enjoyable and enlightening.
Nietzsche is probably the most entertaining of the existentialists because of his extremely quotable and often hilarious writing style so be sure to check him out if you're struggling to find the motivation to continue reading philosophy.
Oh and it would also help to have a critical understanding of reasoning, what makes a good argument and what makes a bad argument ect... Their are tones of text books on this.
Hopefully this helps in some way
Good luck ;)
Also Stefan Molyneux is a sophist and should generally be avoided
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>>8205036
Belloc seems out of place there.
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>>8205036
>Can't forget Stein
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>>8204664
what the fuck are you talking about
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>>8205036
>you will never get drunk with Hemingway and Fitzgerald
>you will never reassure each others' virility and penis length
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>>8205389
>Mind if I sit in, chaps?
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>>8204501
Please read all in the order listed.

Schopenhauer:
On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason ISBN: 9780521872713
The World as Will and Representation Vol 1 ISBN: 9781107414778
The World as Will and Representation Vol 2 ASIN: B00700YVIU
The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics ISBN: 9781107414747
Parerga and Paralipomena ISBN: 9780521871389

Nietzsche:
Untimely Meditations
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
The Gay Science
The Birth of Tragedy
Beyond Good and Evil
Genealogy of Morals
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The Case of Wagner
The Twilight of the Idols
The Antichrist
Ecce Homo
Nietzsche Contra Wagner

Which can be found in:
Untimely Meditations (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) ISBN: 0521585848
The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs ISBN: 0394719859
The Portable Nietzsche (Portable Library) ISBN: 0140150625
Basic Writings of Nietzsche (Modern Library Classics) ISBN: 0679783393
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits, Revised Edition ISBN: 0803283687

Kierkegaard:
Either/Or Part 1 & 2 ISBN: 0691020418 & 0691020426
Fear and Trembling/Repetition ISBN: 0691020264
Works of Love ISBN: 0691059160
The Sickness Unto Death ISBN: 0691020280
Philosophical Fragments/Johannes Climacus ISBN: 0691020361
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>>8204664
>implying Kirk wasn't a NEET
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>>8205036
DEAL WITH HIM, HEMINGWAY. DEAL WITH HIM
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is existentialism the new /lit/ thing? if so go with genealogy of morals and read the sep page on existentialism
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>>8204664
liar
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>>8204501
read lao tzu
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>>8204501
El Graeco
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Where do I start with poetry?
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>>8206049
The Greeks
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>>8204507
Darwin lol
>nice meme
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>>8205930
an idiotically blunt way of reading modern philosophy
A "take what you want and insert into life" confirmation bias ridden reading guide, no references to philosophy as a whole or even as an essentially narrative driven subject which it is.
Your classic faggot incarnate faux-intellectual wankery is deeply flawed and entirely utilitarian "i can talk about this at a cocktail party" nonsense to history and the greater human condition.
Fuck this guy, bet they think they are "deep" and "well read". This person is toxic and should be avoided at all points, they have simply listed titles without any kind of reason to read them, a

"trust me" attitude, anon cunt niggerdom
Eat a massive cock, you are worse then a shit-poster
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>>8206118
>tfw I got this from a /lit/ reading list
:^(
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>>8206159
Sometimes I get the feeling the one thing /lit/ hates most of all is /lit/.
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