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18938126 No.18938126 [Reply] [Original]

Should I be taking notes while I read philosophy?

>> No.18938134

>>18938126
https://stevenson.ucsc.edu/academics/stevenson-college-core-courses/how-to-mark-a-book-1.pdf

>> No.18938138

>>18938126
Absolutely not. It’ll make you feel like it’s a chore and distract you from comprehending the material.
Read it, uninterrupted, and then take some time to think about what you just read.

>> No.18938150

>>18938138
What he said. Take notes if you're writing an essay or some other academic work, but otherwise, no need to. It's better to digest the work you're reading in its whole after you're done, than to ruminate on fragments of it as you read it.

>> No.18938184

>>18938126
I can memorize what I need to without the use of notes. YOU may not because you and your son are fat dolts who would be used as spave labor in Greek times. That's your problem.

>> No.18938194

>>18938184
Stop right there, I'm a fat dolt, but I don't have OP's problem, I can memorise the contents of a book just fine. Thinfag.

>> No.18938202

>>18938184
It has nothing to do with memorizing, notes are about thinking. Just compare Plato and Kant, this shouldn't be too much of a stretch for people who can't think in writing.

>> No.18938208

>>18938138
>>18938184
Reading the entire work from start to finish without taking notes doesn't mean you should never take notes. In fact, depending on the situation, it would be best to casually read the entire text either before or after you take notes.

>> No.18938210

>>18938202
Memorize my foot up your ass, you decrepit skeleton. Now song for Mrs Cron like I fucking ordered you to. She's waiting.

>> No.18938212

>>18938210
Yes, that how far not writing takes you. Thanks for making my point, anon. You are all talk, the best you can do is: dialogues.

>> No.18938215

>>18938138
Dumbass English teachers need to take note here.

>> No.18938217

>>18938134
Are you a Stevenson student?

>> No.18938220

>>18938215
Note-taking is beneficial, it will only do you good if you do it the right way.

>> No.18938222

>>18938212
Repeat after me, Sir January

"WHEN I GOT UP TO THE GARRET, NO MAIN ROYAL DID I FIND SO I SLEWED AROUND TO THE WINDOW AND I FURLED THE WINDOW BLIND!"

>> No.18938225

>>18938222
Shit flinging after getting exposed as a retard. As expected of a monkey that can't write.

>> No.18938288

>>18938220
I disagree, but if it works for you I'm not going to knock it.

>> No.18938307

>>18938288
I'm curious to know, why do you disagree? Note-taking has been utilized by numerous students, teachers, professors, historical philosophers, etc

>> No.18938357

>>18938194
A fat body is evidence of poor moral character.

>> No.18938379

>>18938357
Other way around. Hungry people are scheming criminals. Fat people are BASED, especially if volcel.

>> No.18938395

>>18938379
I have found God, but he is insufficient. I am only spiritually dead. Physically I am alive. Morally I am free. The world which I have departed is a menagerie. the dawn is breaking on a new world, a jungle world in which the lean spirits roam with sharp claws. If I am a hyena I am a lean and hungry one: I go forth to fatten myself. -- Henry Miller

>> No.18938409

>>18938126
I make notes when I'm trying to get a handle on something that I can't just read and reread to get, connect it to things I already know, or connect it to previously established things in the work or the corpus of the thinker I'm dealing with.

>> No.18939226

>>18938307
I disagree with teacher-mandated note-taking because it is very disruptive. I forgot the mandated number, but it might have been 2-3 things per page. If I was a teacher who wanted to make kids annotate/notetake, I would require a comment every few pages. It has to be more than "boring", but if the student could write "prose is boring" or "Edith is a dumb bitch", that would be fine. If the student summarized the content of the past few pages in a sentence, asked a question, or picked out an interesting literary technique, that would be good work. A summary only needs to be"Overwhelmed by splendor at party."
However, that's not what my teachers wanted. They wanted me to interrupt any rhythm, flow, or hack to be interested I developed to satisfy their midwit checklist.

>> No.18939290

>>18938217
Not OP, but Cowell student here

>> No.18939465

>>18938138
Basically this. But after that, still write down your thoughts and where they came from. And probably a general overview of what you read to have something to refer back to instead of skimming a whole book.

>> No.18939696

>>18938126
nah. i just sticky note difficult passages. Rarely I will highlight something worth memorizing, such as quotes, statistics, dates, etc. But honestly, cramming facts is pure vanity and midwittery. I really only do it when I know it will come up in the near future or if it's a popular normie topics for epic btfos.
Although I do try to write on what I read everyday, recalling from memory alone.

I only read for leisure these days, so I always enjoy what I read. Meaning I always read actively. If it was something I was forced to read (i.e for school or work) I'd take notes. Otherwise I'd spend the whole time thinking about more interesting shit.

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>>18938138
Ignore this faggot, he doesn't know what he's talking about.
You should be taking notes just as you would for a scientific textbook on biology or homotopy or something. Philosophy is a way of understanding, and you can not understand a way of understanding unless you try understanding things in that way and take note of the intricacies of such a view. Have a dialogue, ask questions and try to answer them. Do not be one of the faggots who just reads a book, reads some commentary, and then decides they get it. There is no rigorous introspection in that and if you don't record your ideas they become fleeting.
Besides, the dialogue between you the read and the author, by way of commentary and text, is not tedious and is not distract from anything, it is natural. I believe Plato critiqued books for being bad teachers, in that they could not give feedback to their pupils, this is the closest you can come to that I believe. It's pretty fun imho too.

>> No.18939724

>>18938126
Take notes but don't mark the book up. The act of writing (or typing) helps memory recall in the future

>> No.18939748

>>18939697
There are better ways to have a dialogue than taking notes, for example doing as Plato recommends and discussing the the ideas with other human beings. I'm not saying to never take notes but it's sometimes wiser to just read the work through once and take it in at the macro level before dissecting every twist and turn of the author's arguments.

>> No.18940015

>>18938126
I do.

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>>18938126
Based