What are you favourite philosophy books ?
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The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus
The Power of Myth and The Hero With a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell0 -
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone, of course!0
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sunn_lighter wrote: »
one i don't like at all: a thousand plateaus- deleuze and guattari.
i have a list of a few i like, but they border on art theory.
Have you ever read Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter?? In incorporates math, philosophy, art theory, and music theory. I highly recommend.0 -
Sinistrous wrote: »Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone, of course!
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sunn_lighter wrote: »
one i don't like at all: a thousand plateaus- deleuze and guattari.
i have a list of a few i like, but they border on art theory.
Oh, like abstract art ? I'm more into mindset philosophy. Like Stoicism is something I really appeal too and inducing stress a.k.a Positive adaptation.
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The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus
The Power of Myth and The Hero With a Thousand Faces - Joseph CampbellThe Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus
The Power of Myth and The Hero With a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell
What are the central ideas that this philosophy is based on mate ?0 -
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*kitten* love Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra is very profound.0
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You can focus on that on you can get deeper and realize that the will to power or self mastery where in self-control of our desires and emotions is the ultimate form of power.
but yeah , God is Dead.0 -
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Being and Nothingness - Sartre
Logical Self-Defense - Blair0 -
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sunn_lighter wrote: »You can focus on that on you can get deeper and realize that the will to power or self mastery where in self-control of our desires and emotions is the ultimate form of power.
but yeah , God is Dead.
listen, if you want to have a good philosophical debate on nietzsche vs kant or whomever, i’m going to have to get really stoned first so i can tolerate all the forthcoming condescending monologues i’ve come to expect from talking with people about this *kitten*. and it’s the middle of the day, so not very appropriate time to light up.
please excuse me, i have to go respond to the thread asking if i could beat someone in arm wrestling.
Lol I'm not into arguments, I'm just about to finish work and head to my soccer game. And I doubt I can have any conversation with you after you're stoned, perhaps if you'd like to join me for a cup of some psychedelic mushrooms that would be super. Need to set a specific date and time though haha.
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sunn_lighter wrote: »sunn_lighter wrote: »You can focus on that on you can get deeper and realize that the will to power or self mastery where in self-control of our desires and emotions is the ultimate form of power.
but yeah , God is Dead.
listen, if you want to have a good philosophical debate on nietzsche vs kant or whomever, i’m going to have to get really stoned first so i can tolerate all the forthcoming condescending monologues i’ve come to expect from talking with people about this *kitten*. and it’s the middle of the day, so not very appropriate time to light up.
please excuse me, i have to go respond to the thread asking if i could beat someone in arm wrestling.
Lol I'm not into arguments, I'm just about to finish work and head to my soccer game. And I doubt I can have any conversation with you after you're stoned, perhaps if you'd like to join me for a cup of some psychedelic mushrooms that would be super. Need to set a specific date and time though haha.
i'm quite articulate when stoned, thank you. and the last time i was on mushrooms I spent the entire time log rolling down snowy hills.
Good for you, still not keen though.
That's pretty crazy hahaha !0 -
Not necessarily a philosophy book, but I was introduced to it through a Philosophy class
Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge0 -
The Republic of Plato is one of my favorite books of any genre.0
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Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace. A very short book of religious philosophy that takes a very long time to read, and rewards multiple readings. Can't recommend it highly enough, especially if you're religious but even if you're not; Camus called her the greatest mind of his generation, and you really have to pay attention to follow her train of thought.
While we're on the subject of Camus, anything by him. And anything by William James or John Dewey; the American pragmatists were bracingly direct and plainspoken by the standards of philosophy, but they had much to say.
Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth.
Martin Buber, I and Thou.
Abraham Joshua Heschel, Man is Not Alone.
A.J. Ayer, Language, Truth, and Logic.
Charles Hartshorne, Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes.
Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem.
Hans-Georg Gadamer's Truth and Method is hard to read, but worth the effort. If you only read one dead bold-letter German, Gadamer is my pick.
Alfred North Whitehead's Process and Reality and Julian Jaynes' The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind are both brilliant works of philosophy (and yes, the latter is philosophy—at least from where I sit), but almost nobody understands or agrees with them. They're useful mostly because they give your mind a pleasant melty feeling.
I think much of C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity is more philosophy than apologetics and while I seem to agree with a little less of it each year, it's delightfully well-written and played an important role in my life when I was younger.
James Baldwin's essays are not usually considered philosophy, but I classify them as such. I recommend starting with The Devil Finds Work.
When it comes to the Greeks, I prefer the Stoics to Plato and Aristotle. Epictetus' Enchiridion is one of my favorite works of any era. (You can find it online by Googling it.)
Also: It's not a book, but the single most influential essay on moral philosophy of the 20th century, Elizabeth Anscombe's "Modern Moral Philosophy" (1958), can be found online and is well worth reading.0 -
Douglas Adams Hitchhiker's Guude series.
Symposium - Plato
Bible
The Dhammapada
Lots of life lesson types books like Multipliers, any Leo Buscalia, etc.
i used to read A LOT!0 -
Definitely Would You Rather Be a Bullfrog by Dr. Seuss............0
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Just finished with Herman Hesse - Siddhartha0
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Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace. A very short book of religious philosophy that takes a very long time to read, and rewards multiple readings. Can't recommend it highly enough, especially if you're religious but even if you're not; Camus called her the greatest mind of his generation, and you really have to pay attention to follow her train of thought.
While we're on the subject of Camus, anything by him. And anything by William James or John Dewey; the American pragmatists were bracingly direct and plainspoken by the standards of philosophy, but they had much to say.
Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth.
Martin Buber, I and Thou.
Abraham Joshua Heschel, Man is Not Alone.
A.J. Ayer, Language, Truth, and Logic.
Charles Hartshorne, Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes.
Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem.
Hans-Georg Gadamer's Truth and Method is hard to read, but worth the effort. If you only read one dead bold-letter German, Gadamer is my pick.
Alfred North Whitehead's Process and Reality and Julian Jaynes' The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind are both brilliant works of philosophy (and yes, the latter is philosophy—at least from where I sit), but almost nobody understands or agrees with them. They're useful mostly because they give your mind a pleasant melty feeling.
I think much of C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity is more philosophy than apologetics and while I seem to agree with a little less of it each year, it's delightfully well-written and played an important role in my life when I was younger.
James Baldwin's essays are not usually considered philosophy, but I classify them as such. I recommend starting with The Devil Finds Work.
When it comes to the Greeks, I prefer the Stoics to Plato and Aristotle. Epictetus' Enchiridion is one of my favorite works of any era. (You can find it online by Googling it.)
Also: It's not a book, but the single most influential essay on moral philosophy of the 20th century, Elizabeth Anscombe's "Modern Moral Philosophy" (1958), can be found online and is well worth reading.
Yeah not quite religious even though I was born a catholic, I keep an open mind and fuse different schools of philosophy together to induce my own philosophy.
Stoicism has had a profound effect on me.0 -
I don't have any, if i read it is for college purposes only. I stuck with the Bible, the Word of Truth Booooooooooom
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The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus
The Power of Myth and The Hero With a Thousand Faces - Joseph CampbellThe Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus
The Power of Myth and The Hero With a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell
What are the central ideas that this philosophy is based on mate ?
All are sort of the anti-philosophy philosophy. Camus was very much a founder of the philosophy of the absurd. He believed that man's search for some higher meaning was pretty much futile in the world as it is (which has a lot to do with his childhood in French occupied Algeria). He was an advocate of revolt against the routine and expected. Camus is one the more poignant writers of the last century, for my money.
Joseph Campbell was a professor of comparative religion, who took the position that man needed myths, not only as a religious tool, but as a tool of art, music, science....etc. We either need to have the existence of God, or deny the existence of any God, to have self worth. The books I mention are more of a study of comparative religion that subtly put forth the philosophical idea in the telling. He was a very gifted writer. All of his books read like a story, completely absorbing to the reader.
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