/lit/ - Literature

>>18054292
Likewise, philosophy changed my life for the better
I started with picrel

pic & Heidegger

>>16533759
>Gorgias(best possible explanation and condensing of all of Plato's typical philosophy and orientation)
yes
if you only read one of Plato's dialogues it should be this
>>16539790
Hume's Treatise sets out the skepticism that Kant tries to refute
Start with Kant's Prolegomena To Any Future Metaphysics - he wrote it as an introductory summary to the chadwerk that is Critique of Pure Reason

>>16327619
If you found it too difficult try Gorgias instead
It covers much the same ground but is shorter and more entertaining with better characterisation

>>15971835
There is nothing more legit than starting with the Greeks
Pic related for eg

Hey there frens, lay aside your copy of Republic; the Gorgias covers much of the same ground, but more streamlined and with better characters. You thought Thrasymachus had the best lines in Republic? Meet Callicles:
“Our way is to take the best and strongest among us from an early age and endeavour to mould their character as men tame lions; we enslave them by saying that men ought to be equal and that this is fine and right. But I think that if there arises a man sufficiently endowed by nature, he will shake off and break through and escape from all these trammels, he will tread underfoot our texts and spells and all our unnatural laws, and by an act of revolt reveal himself our master instead of our slave, in the full blaze of the light of natural justice.” (483e-484a)
Hupla! But that aint all:
GROAN with disappointment as Soccy pulls out some truly weak arguments against Callicles
CHEER as our proto-ubermensch refuses to be btfoed but stays snarly
MARVEL as Socco himself gets in some prime cuts against classical Athens, “festering and rotten to the core” (Protip: Socrates hated democracy)
SNORT with contempt as Plato once again resorts to a punishment-in-the-afterlife myth as a final response to the doctrine of might is right
Essential Greekery – Read It You Need It!