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I've been reading a lot of Sci-Fi and Fantasy books lately and got a little tired with the genre.
I wanted to dwell deep into the sea of philosophy, yet I've no idea where to start with I would love if you guys could bring some suggestions for your personal favourite philosophical books and tell a little bit about them.

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>> No.14610335

>>14610310
What kind of sci-fi?

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>>14610335
Last Sci-Fi book I read was Summerland by Hannu Rajaniemi which is pretty much an alternate history kind of book.
It was meh, it felt like the Hannu just took 1000 micro grams of acid for each chapter but overall an enjoyable book to read.

>> No.14610640

>>14610322
What should I go with after finishing the Greek side of philosophy?

>> No.14610747

>>14610640
Just find who interests you with their particular subfield.
If you want to do chronologically-
Christian Neoplatonist is the next logical leap, then probably Descartes. Descartes is the 'basis' for modern philosophy in the sense that basically all after him attempt to discuss his ideas either explicitly or implicitly. Kant and the subsequent German Idealists after him.

Personally I went from Nietzsche and Marx to Plato to Augustine to Descartes to Kant to Heidegger. Kind of a fucked up order but I wanted to work through some of the seminal works in philosophy before jumping into the stuff that really interests me.

Heidegger's Being and Time is what I'm working on right now, but I started with his Discourse on Thinking. He really builds upon Aristotle, Descartes, and Kant only to really destroy them. He basically just brought his teacher Husserl's ideas of phenomenology to a point where the Cartesian basis of his phenomenology no longer was of use.

Just remember to have fun

Hopefully this helps, Cheers.

>> No.14610801

>>14610747
Much appreciated mate