Can anyone recommend me some good philosophical reading material. Preferably on the lengthy side; don't want any glorified essays.
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Anonymous2008-03-31 4:36
John Gray's Straw Dogs
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Anonymous2008-03-31 6:18
Why would you want to read any of those? Only dull people write pure philosophy. Authors with any intelligence and creativity whatsoever opt for conveying their concepts and ideas in form of art.
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Anonymous2008-03-31 6:36
My Awakening: A Path to Racial Understanding by David Ernest Duke
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Anonymous2008-03-31 8:09
>>3
I'm interested. Can you give me some examples of intelligent, creative and whatsoever authors?
>>3 attempts to solve the millennia-old problem of aesthetics in three sentences! Bravo.
OP -
Try "Pragmatism and Other Writings" by William James. Publisher is Penguin Classics.
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Anonymous2008-04-20 7:36
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There's nothing to be solved. Writing dull depictions of one's own (and nobody's else) psychology in insanely inaccurate metaphors - that's philosophy.
Bringing pleasure and joy outside oneself - that's art. (Now, bringing sorrow, hate and pain samewise - that's shitty art.)
As simple as that. Art has many problems, but philosophy is simple. I'm talking about what's called philosophy, not the REAL philosophy. Certainly Darwing and Einstein were incredible, but you don't recommend their works as philosophy, even though that's where the beauty of thought and real possibilities of thought knocking on the doors of truth about humankind and universe resides - because you're too dull, or tired, or whatever, to read anything senseful, I gather. So, better off reading some fantastic nonsence with no meaning or application, neither any artistic form to support it, right? Girls LOVE philosophy, after all, so why not use it to have a chat in female taste - pointless, but with the use of clever words; it might lead to reproduction, after all.
I'm reading "Beyond Good and Evil" right now. It's entertaining to say the least.
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Anonymous2008-04-23 18:13
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Well, when there's trouble you might want to call dee-doublejou.
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Anonymous2008-04-24 22:07
While it may not be pure non-fiction, Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder a great work of fiction.
It's a really limited sampling of various philosopher's major theories combined in a work of fiction that I really enjoyed.
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Anonymous2008-04-25 1:54
"A History of Western Philosophy" -Bertrand Russell
"Social Contract: Essays by Locke, Hume, and Rousseau" (Galaxy Books) (Paperback)
"The Selfish Gene" - Richard Dawkins
"Unweaving the Rainbow" - R. Dawkins
"The Blind Watchmaker" - R. Dawkins
"Climbing Mount Improbable" - R. Dawkins
"Critique of Pure Reason" - Immanuel Kant
"The World as I see it" - Albert Einstein
Some are more science that philosophy (dawkins) but he's close to philosophy with "... Mount Improbable" This is my summer reading list as a new philosophy major. I'd throw in "The God Delusion" while your at it, I loved it.
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Anonymous2008-05-21 10:21
Well how about the Republic by Plato, the birth of tragedy by Nietzsche, the crique of reason by Kant, Tao teh ching by Lao tzu
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Anonymous2008-05-22 14:58
Anything by Dan Millman, Christopher S. Hyatt, Ph.D., Anton Szandor LaVey, Michael W. Ford, Tsirk Susej, D.E. Tarver, Nietzsche, Robert Anton Wilson, and Zweig and Abrams.
-Meeting the Shadow
-Trapped in the Mirror
-The Psychopath's Bible
-Prometheus Rising
-Undoing Yourself
-The Essence of Chaos
-Kaizen
-The Science of Success
-Accelerated Learning for the 21st Century
-Way of the Peaceful Warrior
-Living on Purpose
-Wisdom of the Peaceful Warrior
-The Art of War
-Hagakure
-The Book of Five Rings
-Poems by OVID
-The Living Sword
Did you mix Kant and Russell with Dawkins just to be funny? As was the same meant for Einstein's watered down translation of what couldn't be farther from his actual thought process? You, sir, are a fuckhead.
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Anonymous2008-05-25 21:46
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And it's the Critique of *PURE* Reason, god damn it. Go watch Spongebob, or something.
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Anonymous2008-05-27 23:02
One book: Being and Nothingness.
Now, go mindfuck yourself.
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Anonymous2008-05-28 15:03
>>17
what about some Feyerabend instead of crappy old einstein?
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Anonymous2008-05-29 23:54
The Story of Philopsophy
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Anonymous2008-05-30 16:51
Everythin by Terence Mckenna
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Anonymous2008-06-01 10:49
Friedrich Nietzsche is overrated and unoriginal.
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Anonymous2008-06-01 10:50
All western "philosophy" sucks. The Analects by Confucius and the Daodejing by Laozi is where it's at.
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Anonymous2008-06-01 15:27
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>All western and eastern "philosophy" sucks. On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres by Nicolaus Copernicus, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Isaac Newton and the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin is where it's at.
There's no point in reading any of those books. Any modern textbook on those subjects would be superior.
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Anonymous2008-06-03 17:58
Buddhist doctrine is something to look into
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Anonymous2008-06-04 2:05
anybody got a .pdf of Being and Time? That would be great
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Anonymous2008-06-04 3:41
>>31
Same goes for your definition of philosophers, no? Even more so, I say.
Come on. Scientists study and describe, poets study and transmute. Philosophers transmute and describe without any kind of study, and then dare call themselves the lovers of wisdom. Dull fucks. Poets with no rhyme, prosaics with no form, artists with no composition, poorest of oll artists, stealing their name and title from scientists who really study the universe. Rage rage rage, hate hate hate
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Anonymous2008-06-17 1:06
>>31
Oh wow, this is what modernists actually believe.
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Anonymous2008-06-17 1:36
>>35
Enjoy your 19th century physics and biology. Maybe you can go and independently invent the vacuum tube or something.
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Anonymous2008-06-17 1:45
>>36
Enjoy your diluted and watered down texbooks. Real biologists and physicists read the original works by the geniuses themselves, not the butchered parts that make it into textbooks for undergraduates.
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Well I fuck beautiful women for a living AND I'm richer than you both, and I didn't even fucking graduate from High School!
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Anonymous2008-06-19 5:06
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I am stil in kindergaten and i fuk al the girls i can see their and there parents pay me for that
how kul is that
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Anonymous2008-06-20 16:30
Being and Nothingness by Sartre
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Anonymous2008-06-23 0:59
>>37 Real biologists and physicists read the original works by the geniuses themselves
How would you know?
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Anonymous2008-06-24 18:32
Anything by Jorge Luis Borges. I would suggest El Aleph or Ficciones. Anyhow, there's always this existensialist taste all over his works that you might like.
Not so much with other schools however, especially of the analytical brand.
I can't really see a piece of fiction which disputes the foundationalist viewpoint of epistemology