/lit/ - Literature

>>22478740
So you would consider sharing pictures of books to complete strangers like some sort of a preteen school girl, for emotional gratification a rational act? If so you are not a Kantian. If not, then you are an imposter.
(Heh, I have snared another innocent victim in another gordian knot hehehe)

>>17022142
>>17022160
Yes, I see we were attacking the problem from different ends. For understanding the Greeks Thucydides is absolutely essential. For a focus on purely literature, however, he is less so. I grant that Herodotus has perhaps more value than I initially made out, but I maintain for a literature-centric approach his work can be merely supplementary.

>>17022163
I'm a Catholic so I only really focused on Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Pascal and the like. For a serious student of philosophy you should have a broader scope. Pic related might be of some interest. I've heard conflicted accounts of the value of Russell's History of Western Philosophy, but I have a copy sitting on my shelf and it seems reasonably comprehensive for the amateur. At the very least it could point to further reading.

okay, not trolling this time... what philosophers/ schools of philosophical thought are essential and which are most worthwhile to the individual?
also, what is missing from this chart?

can i just skip to the stoics and then skip most of the Christian crap too? I'm not really interested in primitive thinkers