/lit/ - Literature

>>19688786
lol

>>16985860
how do you buttchug a book?
>>16985882
seconding

>>16839067
cogently

I like the Bible.

I like books. They make me feel smart!

>>15759036
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>>15218582
very based keep going man

>>15177052
put me in the folder too

>>14881630
Where the FUCK is your sense of ADVENTURE? Aren't you curious to see whatever could possibly happen next?

>>14873315
Good job anon, keep it up :D

What are the essential NYRB Classics?

>>14827408
>>14827423
BOTH SIDES WIN, THEY REALIZE FRIENDSHIPS MORE IMPORTANT. COULDN'T HAVE ASKED FOR A BETTER OUTCOME!

>>14826474
Yes, good, now spit in her mouth

I want to become a writer and write philosophy and essays. What should I read?

>>14773084
Yes I own his Introduction To Hindu Doctrines.
>>14773432
Mostly mathematics and sciences, some history and grammar stuff, and a few odds and ends like First Aid and Drawing.

ATTENTION: I am an entity which exists! I sense a whole reality all around me! It's weird but good! Which authors talk about this other then Heidegger?

>Started keeping a text file Journal on my computer since September last year
>Completely amateur, no editing, no re-writing, no fixing the spelling mistakes, just plain what it was
You guys wanna see some of the better parts? It's nothing special, but maybe someone will get some enjoyment from it. If you have a special date from September to February, like a birthday or a holiday, post it and I'll see if there's an entry there. There are a few missing days though, I'll admit. I really got to clarify first, I don't necessarily agree with anything I wrote in the past. Also, the farther back you go the worse the writing. I got better. It'd take too long to post screencaps so I'll just copy paste it. Here's an early one.

>September 2nd Monday
It's a gray day, but it's not raining. It brightened up at noon and I stretched outside. I read up to page 19 of Symposium by Plato. It's a rather quick read. I messed around with Kahnacademy and Duolingo today. Didn't spend any more then minute or two with each. Wrote the alphabet with my left hand. I fear I am a failure. It sometimes feels that I never get anything done. Likely it's caused by my never doing anything. Someday I will change.
It's far brighter now, at five pm, then it was this morning. Half-way through the day with nothing accomplished. That is fine. I don't know when to sleep anymore.
I made some cool posts on 4chan.
I tried making a new /lit/ starter kit. It consisted of seven books, none of which I've read. (Didn't write this down at the time, but they were Divine Comedy / Canterbery Tales / Don Quixote / Romeo And Juliet / Moby Dick / Notes From Underground / Book Of Disquiet)
Then got into an argument with a fellow on /lit/ about it. He said I was retarded because you'd need mastery over multiple languages to enjoy it. So I posted
>"Yeah well enjoy never reading anything that you don't know the original language of. Translations don't perfectly capture the essence of these books, but the translations of these classics are STILL BETTER then 90% of books written in english."

MINIMALIST:

Plato's Trial Of Socrates / Aristotle's Organon / Epicurus Essentials
Plutarch's Lives / Plotinus Enneads / Proclus Elements Of Theology
Augustine's Confessions / Aquinas's Shorter Summa
Descartes Meditations / Spinoza's Ethics / Leibniz's Discourse
Locke's Human Understanding / Berkely's Human Understanding / Hume's Human Understanding
Kant Prolegomena To Any Future Metaphysics/ Hegel's Philosophy Of History / Schoppenhaur's Four Fold Root Of Sufficient Reason
Stirner's Ego And It's Own / Kierkegaard's Either Or / Nietzsche's Beyond Good And Evil

MAXIMALIST:

Epic Of Gilgamesh / First Philosophers by Waterfield
Hermetica / Upanishads / Bhagavad Gita
Patanjali's Yoga Sutras / Laozi's Tao Te Ching
Hesiod's Works And Days / Sappho's Odes / Aesop's Fables
Sun Tzu / Machiavelli
Confucius's Analects / Buddha's Dhammapada
Plato's Trial Of Socrates / Aristotle's Organon / Epicurus Essentials
Cicero's On Duties / Boethius Consolation Of Philosophy
Plutarch's Lives / Plotinus Enneads / Proclus Elements Of Theology
Seneca's Letters / Epictetus's Discourses / Aurelius Meditations
Ptolemy Almagest / Copernicus Heavenly Spheres / Kelper's Epitome Of Copernican Astronomy
Talmud / Bible / Quaran
Augustine's Confessions / Aquinas's Shorter Summa
Montigane's Essays / Bacon's Essays
Hobbes Leviathan / Pascal Pensees
Descartes Meditations / Spinoza's Ethics / Leibniz's Discourse
Locke's Human Understanding / Berkely's Human Understanding / Hume's Human Understanding
Montisque's Selected Political Writings / Voltare's Candide / Burke's Reflections On The Revolution In France / Tocqueville's Essays On America
Rousseau's Social Contract / Paine's Rights Of Man / Smith's Theory Of Moral Sentiments
Kant Prolegomena To Any Future Metaphysics/ Hegel's Philosophy Of History / Schoppenhaur's Four Fold Root Of Sufficient Reason
Schelling's Ideas For A Philosophy Of Nature / Fitche's Vocation Of Man
Federalist Papers / Marx's Manifesto / Hitler's Mein Kampf / Rand's Atlas Shrugged
Emerson Self Reliance and Nature / Thoreau Walden and Civil Disobedience.
Mill's Utilitarianism / James Pragmaticism
Stirner's Ego And It's Own / Kierkegaard's Either Or / Nietzsche's Beyond Good And Evil
Whitehead's Introduction To Mathematics / Guenon's Introduction To Hindu Doctrines

NOTE: I listed what I think is the best intro work to each author. Not what is considered their main most significant work. Why are some authors side by side, separated by a / ? See, it jumps around chronologically to lump them into groups.. For instance, the Stoics are all side by side even though they're separated in time. The Talmud, Bible, and Quaran are separated in time, but are together because they're all part of the monotheist abrahamic religious canon. The groups are all in correct order.

So if you want a general starting point with literature and especially philosophy, you can't go wrong with Greeks. You have a couple charts but if you ask me they sometimes have non-essentials and miss out on important authors. There is some optional preliminary works to be mentioned first:
>How To Read A Book by Adler
>Mythology by Hamilton
>A Brief History Of Ancient Greece by Pomeroy
>Epic Of Gilgamesh
But these are all optional and not part of the main list:

Start Here:
Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
Hesiod's Works And Days
Sappho's Fragments
Aesop's Fables
First Philosophers by Waterfield
Aeschylus's Oriesta
Sophocles' Oedipus
Euripides Medea
Herodotus Histories
Thucydides History Of Pellopenesian War
Hippocrates Medical Writing
Euclid's Elements
Archimedes's Scientific Works
Aristophanes Clouds
Apollodorus Library
Plato's Trial Of Socrates (inb4 why not Republic? This is a starter point for Plato, even though Republic is the bigger more significant work.)
Aristotle's Organon
Epicurus Essentials

There you go, /lit/.

>>14530697
Dare I say it? Based! Our guy! Dank!

What books have information about general studying? Something to help me teach myself stuff. I have already read Oakley's A Mind For Numbers and Adler's How To Read A Book.

What others should I read? It'd be really nice if a historically significant person shared his advice for self teaching.

This is my belief.
>Everybody should create their own system of philosophy. They ought decide how they're going to operate themselves using the best method they decide on. A continuous search should be conducted throughout the life of all people. Search for how to live, act, think, and speak. Never should a person be satisfied with their beliefs. Grow ones own perspective forevermore.

What should I read that argues for or against things like or about this.
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Which philosophers would agree with me? What books should I read?
>Prostitution, gambling, and most drugs (excluding meth and heroine specifically. NOT excluding opioids) should be legal
> In order from worst to best - Barbarism / Anarchism > Serfdom / Caste / Monarchy > Communism > Nazism > Socialism > Democracy / Capitalism > Libertarian
>Abortions are fine. If they don't want it it's going to live a horrible life.
>Suicide euthanasia clinics should be legal. My body, my choice.
>The people have a right to free speech. Nigger, faggot, kike, honkey, spic, Australian, ect. They also have a right to bare arms. A right to no unlawful searches. A right to masterbate to whatever they desire.

What books would you recommend to a person of these beliefs?

>tushie