/lit/ - Literature

You should have a standard brainlet like pic rel

>>16969476
i wanted to use this one, something about a stump in his head is just too funny

>>16969496
What philosophy books have you read?

maybe first try to find sth actionable

a solution to a problem you are having, will be easier to relate and put it into practice

>read Peterson
>understand everything
>mfw

>>16969709
You read THE Dr. J.B. Peterson?

>>16969713
Yep.

I tried to read Schopenhauer

>>16969450
Try starting with easy philosophers like Camus or Descartes. Nietzsche isn’t too bad either. Platos super easy.

>>16969450
are you picking up random works? Philosophers are usually responding to what some other philosopher said so it's imoritant to start with the greeks

>>16969850
Who are the hardest ones in your opinion?

>>16969856
This. Pretending like you can read philosophy as you read an average novel is fucking stupid.

Philosophy is a knowledge field like any other and it requires study and progression, that's why I don't understand why people casually suggest philosophy reading here next to fucking Ready player one. (I guess they're trying to appear smart.)

You don't just pick any astrophysics study and assume you'll understand it because you did some arithmetics in school.

>read wikipedia article about philosophical question
>have no urge for furher reading because you solved it in your head

>>16969450
START WITH THE GREEKS

>>16970828
How important is it that i start with greeks? I wanted to read Schopenhauer because i was really interested in his views in particular but theres no way that i could understand what i tried to read. (World as will and representation)

>>16970856
Starting with the Greeks is a meme. Just buy a good translation and perhaps read a modern intro to Schopenhauer

>>16969878
Hegel, if he were a philosopher, and not a quack

>>16970921
How is Hegel a quack?

>>16971023
He lived in a pond and survived on breadcrumbs

>read Metaphysics by Aristotle
>it's all obvious shit about how we refer to things
I guess it's obvious because he made it but still, I really got bored with the first ten books of metaphysics

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>>16970898
>Starting with the most influential philosophers of all time is a meme

Start with the trial of Socrates. Its a pretty good intro and gets you used to the field

>>16970856
Schop literally tells you to read and understand Kant before reading his own stuff. YOu need to understand the greeks to understand Kant. Start w the greeks.

>>16972503
Ya good drama lets the normie brain go like
>this is just like tyrion in GOT but based Poggers
And then you’re off.

Start with this. It goes through basics and it's very easy to understand.

>>16969856
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>>16971496

read the greeks, then romans, then jews, then christians, then french, then germans

>>16969450
You need to study it not just read it

>>16969878
Heidegger mostly due to translation issues of no fault other than himself for creating dumbass terms for everything. After that maybe Kant just because he is such a shitty goddamn writer.

>>16971715
Plato is way more fun

>>16973500
Feser seems like a cool dude. I own two of his books now

>>16969784
Essays and aphorisms?

>>16970821
based

Op, what philosophy are you reading?

>>16973500
is it ok to read this if i'm irreligious and don't care about their conflict?