/lit/ - Literature

>>11063272
wew lad pass the Critique of pure reason
gonna bust it out in 40 minutes flat

>>9131708

>a person who flees their country because of a threat to their life AND flees to the closest non-threatening country AND will return to his country of origin as soon as the conditions that caused his flight cease (AKA he must live in a tent and must not get a job for the duration of his stay in the host country)

Not who you're responding to, but that was LITERALLY the definition of 'refugee' until very recently, before people lost their fucking minds in 2015/16.

>>9105040

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>>8995290

>Lose the original thread
>Buy Moby Dick thinking it will win
>Mfw I see this thread

After seeing that anon post his Barnes and nobles collections and another saying they could have just bought the Harvard classic collection. I tried to create a list of books (around 100) that having been read and understood would make an educated human.

I currently have 94 books (or works as some works are in multiple books), I have tried to keep it to books/ideas that are profound and noteworthy. Let me know if I have been memed or if I am missing anything good.

(800 BC) Iliad - Homer
(800 BC) Odyssey - Homer
(600 BC) Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu
(470 BC) The Analects - Confucius
(458 BC) The Oresteia - Aeschylus
(450 BC) The Art of War - Sun Tzu
(440 BC) The Histories - Herodotus
(431 BC) Medea and Other Playss - Euripides
(429 BC) The Three Theban Plays: 'Antigone', 'Oedipus the King', 'Oedipus at Colonus' - Sophocles
(405 BC) Frogs and Other Plays - Aristophanes
(400 BC) PLato five dialogues (or complete works)
(400 BC) Hippocratic Writings - Hippocrates

(200 BC) The Bhagavad Gita

(20 BC) The aenid - Virgil
(43 BC) Selected works Cicero
(43 BC) On living and dying well - Cicero

(96 AD) The Annals The Reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero - Tacitus
(96 AD) Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans - Plutarch
(108 AD) Discourses and selected writing Epictetus
(112 AD) Letters - Pliny the younger
(160 AD) Meditations - Marcus Aurelius

(1260) Selected Philosophical Writings - Thomas Aquinas

(1320) The divine comedy - dante
(1370) Chronicles - Jean Froissart
(1390) Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
(1470) Confessions - St augustine
(1470) City of god - St augustine

(1513) The Prince - Niccolò Machiavelli
(1588) The Complete Plays - Christopher Marlowe

(1603) Shakespeare complete works
(1605) Don Quixote - Cervantes
(1611) King James Bible
(1627) Francis Bacon The Major Works
(1627) Selected Poems - John Donne
(1641) Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings - Descartes
(1643) Religio Medici and Urne-Buriall
(1644) The Essential Prose of John Milton
(1644) The Complete English Poems - John Milton
(1650) Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes
(1678) The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan

(1710) An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - John Locke
(1713) Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues - George Berkeley
(1748) An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding - David Hume
(1755) Discourse on the Origin and the Foundations of Inequality Among Men - Jean Jacques Rousseau
(1757) A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful - Edmund Burke
(1776) An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith
(1781) A critque of pure reason - Immanuel Kant
(1785) Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals - Immanuel Kant
(1786) Poems and songs - Robert Burns
(1789) The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon
(1791) Autobiography - Benjamin Franklin

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>>8977553
>four horsemen of atheism
but the four horsemen is a religious thing

I read the sparknotes

>Studying Philosophy in university
>Finally decide I'll join the discussion group on Facebook
>See post from a girl I thought was cute
>This is what she says:

A good reason to remove Plato from the course is that Plato is a waste of everybody's time. If you want to read the ancient Greeks, my recommendation is to read everything Aristotle ever wrote, and then call it a day.

Typically, the only Plato they even teach in a lot of philosophy programs is the stupid-ass 'The Republic' - which is just Plato having a conversation with his imaginary friends about how morally superior they are (and remember, it's just him talking to himself here), and concludes by proving that the world should be governed by philosopher kings. It has like.... zero intellectual merit. Fuck 'The Republic' - it's a pet peeve of mine how everyone and their mother who took a philosophy course read it, and it's like the shittiest representation of academic Philosophy out there.

>Mfw

>>8912861

>later became a misogynist due to his lack of success with them

That didn't happen, though.

Nietzsche was far from a misogynist - but the compliments he pays to women are so veiled, so back-handed, that idiots always assume otherwise.

He notes at one point, for example, that whatever a women might suffer - she can at least console herself with the thought that she is able to enslave a man.

He didn't like feminism PRECISELY because it sought to put women on an equal footing with men - which to Nietzsche would have been a demotion of sorts. That women have a certain mystique, their own way of seeing the world and one that is wholly alien to that of men - this is what he admires.

He arguably does not see women as inferior, superior or even equal - but something different, and any attempt to erase that difference is but a folly.

>>8908762

>24
>It's ok, provided I keep myself grounded. The girls I'm attracted to are usually way beyond my league, whereas I consider more 'realistic' girls to be beneath me. I also have some sort of body dysmorphia which acts as a mental/psychological block, killing my boner any time I have sex with a girl. Twice so far.
>Nietzsche