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Anonymous Tue Mar 13 05:58:01 2018 No.10835762 [Reply] [Original]

What's a short work (around 100 pages) that will unironically really make me think
Nothing crazy like Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus because I'm a dumbo, but something stimulating nonetheless

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 13 06:29:41 2018 No.10835825 >>10835762 Read the first 100 pages of Leo Strauss’s ‘Natural Right and History’

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 13 09:01:00 2018 No.10836145 File: 56 KB, 693x600, 0e1d3193ee0d920e88ec0666ff5b85ae.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] bumping for suggestions

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 13 12:07:18 2018 No.10836727 File: 40 KB, 300x395, 300px-Van_Gogh_-_Trauernder_alter_Mann.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] bumping once more in hope that maybe somebody will finally come through...

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 13 12:32:39 2018 No.10836813 The Kybalion

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 13 12:41:23 2018 No.10836851 >>10835762 Meno and Phaedo

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 13 12:55:14 2018 No.10836904 >>10835762 what is it like to be a bat

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 13 13:17:06 2018 No.10836993 >>10836727 >>10836145 >>10835762 wtf dude? literally the platonic dialogues, they are written to make you think and doesn't (always) offer clear answers

Anonymous Tue Mar 13 14:38:51 2018 No.10837296

Discourse on the Method by Rene Descartes
Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes

These have been babby's first philosophy works for centuries. Descartes wrote for te wider public and you don't need to know anything about prior philosophy to get it. Afterwards you can read Spinoza and Leibniz.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 13 14:48:04 2018 No.10837329 >>10835825 This. Also you could read Gettier's paper "Is justified true belief knowledge?"

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 13 15:28:08 2018 No.10837463 >>10836993 >>10837296 >>10837329 Thanks anons I'll check these out

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 13 15:31:42 2018 No.10837480 candide- Voltaire ward no 6- Anton Chekhov L'horla- Guy De Maupassant Apology Cycle- Plato

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 13 15:32:36 2018 No.10837484 The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 13 15:36:23 2018 No.10837503 Nietzsche "on truth and lies on extramoral sense" but it will probably make you crazy since it's an anticipated wittgenstein

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