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>>8093406
Start by reading it.

>>8093411
I have...

I was discouraged reading his books because apparently he's ‘anti-muslim'

nothing to discuss you're actually right

i'm surprised

The best OP is a mediocre anon

Even though I mostly agree, you are in no place to judge either of them until you've read them in Spanish.

Emerson's On Nature

Moby Dick

>>8093097
"The Mezzanine" by Nicholson Baker.

lmao

>>8093073
mah nigga

Woah that's a nice party trick anon, thanks for sharing!

>>8092985
Fuck, I didn't realize the pic was upside down

>>8092985
Read the Russell book. It is partisan, but actually engages with the philosophical content of each thinker. Durant was a pop historian, and had no clue about philosophy.

The best single volume history is Kenny (2012).

Durant is surprisingly good and very readable. I think he's a great writer. It's good for a quick overview of some major modern philosophers at least. But his coverage of pre-modern philosophers is more of a character study than a synopsis, and he peters out after Schopenhauer and Nietzsche (as much as I like Bergson). Even his coverage of the latter is kind of skewed by the lack of critical distance and benefit of hindsight. Nietzsche became a lot more important soon after Durant wrote. But still, good overview.

Russell is better to read once you already know a decent amount about philosophy, because it's basically just an autistic pedant rambling about how everyone who disagrees with him believes silly things.

The best way to think about learning philosophy, when you're just starting out, is in terms of quantity and not quality. It's way better to just read a bunch of shit than to try to nail everything down from one "perfect" book. The whole process is so jagged and uneven, there are so many threads that need to be woven into one another, that there is just no way to learn philosophy completely "cleanly." You should still try to be rigorous about it, but don't feel bad about Wikipedia'ing Nietzsche, or reading Routledge "So You're a Total Dumbass" Editions Presents: A Very Short Introduction to Nietzsche, For Total Dumbasses.

>>8092971
My grandpa hasn't read a book in forty years and never set foot on even a community college campus. But he did work 60 hours a week most of his life to support his family and is a much better person than you. Go fuck yourself you arrogant little shit. Your classics degree isn't impressive no matter where it came from.

It's much worse when you actually go to one of those schools and you're surrounded by rich cunts who are just as stupid as the poor pieces of shit you grew up with, except groomed to think they're all amazing elites and intellectuals.

I'd rather be back at my community college. I hate every one of these rich braindead yuppie faggots. Poor people may not be intellectuals either, but at least they aren't spoiled-rotten perpetual children. At least people at shitty colleges have no illusions that they are just getting professional training. Every worthless fucking prep school mediocrity at every fancy university just naturally assumes he's some kind of wunderkind, that the cushy job his daddymoney and infinite leisure time to "take two years off to think about what he wants to do next" will get him somehow qualifies him to put on airs of superiority.

It's all nouveau riche trash, all the time. They aren't even real aristocrats. I wouldn't even mind that. It's that they're all nouveau riche garbage, even if they're 10th generation money. They're rich proles with electric ass warmers.

I don't feel bad, I can't blame myself for being born in a shithole where [mine] the best university is at max Top 100 World.

>>8092862
You use the word pretension a lot to deflect your own.

I think you're stifling your intellectual curiosity and potential, consciously or not, by placing yourself above the pursuit of knowledge. All, apparently, because of a perceived pretension.

You're a faggot, OP.

>>8092862
>I want everything in the world to be easily knowable and served up to me on a plate

It really isn't a contest anon; focus on primary sources.

>>8092872
>>8092877
Don't bother, it's a pasta

>>8092854
>The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive #1)
>1527 pages
He's probably a faggot.

>>8092854
On a prose level his writing is garbage. He knows this and doesn't care -- it's all about plot and "magic systems" to him and his fans.

He's not even attempting to do anything I'd find interesting. I think most people here would probably agree.

why post outside your containment thread?

>>8092089

>>8092718

desu, the trendy SJW feminist poets are probably the best. I know that seems like a troll but look at any poetry thread on /lit/ and watch yourself cringe. At least they seem to be getting somewhere and people actually enjoy it. /lit/ poetry aka white 20's male is just teenage angst balled out with the last poet they read.

>>8092722
can you post some examples?

>>8092722

Care to provide a single example of good poetry in that vein?

>>8092648
But I already do

>>8092648
"I want, once and for all, not to know many things. Wisdom requires moderation in knowledge as in other things."

~ Freddy the 'Stache

read this as

>tfw you will never know anything

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWNc2NwkW74 this one?

>>8092656
I don't think so.

>>8092656
>>8092668
All joking aside, I really also think this is the video you're looking for.
King Michael Stevens did something similar, I remember too, but if I remember correctly, he was heavily inspired by this video (i.e. he ripped it off).

I know that as a black fella at least, the abovementioned video empowered me quite a bit in embracing my gender.

Communication is important.

The body is a product of the mind

>>8092538
The body and mind are both products of the spirit.

>>8092535
> current year
> debating about mind problem

>>8092529
I normally don't complain or even care about these things, but that his a horrible font color for that background.

>>8092533
I totally agree. Maybe it shimmers on the actual book, though.

What is the best book that would help me read Ulysses?

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1984 is a long slog of boredom and ideology

Frankenstein is less than 200 pages and pretty accessible; i'm having a fun time annotating it r

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is one helluva fun, easy trip too

>>8092264
Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, Credo, and Phaedo

If you're a right-wing libertarian you'll love it.

>>8092256
>Von Mises

Don't waste your time.
The only good Austrians are Hayek ( only for political theory ) and Schumpeter (who isn't really that associated with Mises).

>Praxeology

read it
just read the fucking book then you'll fucking know

you fucking idiot

or simply fucking look up a summary or something, stupid piece of shit


cunt

asshole