/lit/ - Literature

>>11245820
I would
1. start with whatever interests you AND isn't way above your head
2. Start reading Plato's dialogues and then the Republic
3. Purchase this anthology and peruse it
http://books.wwnorton.com/books/webad.aspx?id=4294986056

>>11245844
thats my particular concern right now, over complicated text that is over my head. metaphysics is especially fascinating to me but im not sure if itll be over my head once i begin to explore it.

thank you for the link, i will also add plato to my list. ive been meaning to

>>11245844
Not OP, I've already read The Apology, Crito, Euthyphro, Phaedo, Cratylus, and Parmenides. I'm currently reading Symposium, and I'm gonna start The Republic tomorrow.
Anything else I should read before going over to Aristotle? And what are Aristotle's most important works?

>>11245820
>economics
yikes

>>11246461
op, putting those on my list. i cant tell you any other reccomendations, only recently getting into literature

>>11246491
?

>>11245820
>economics
A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism - Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Free eBook https://mises.org/library/theory-socialism-and-capitalism-0

>>11245820
Read Plotinus' Enneads. Some Zen. Some Kabbalah. Some Crowley. Corpus Hermeticum.

Republic, Phaedrus, Phaedo, Timaeus, Theaetetus

On the Soul, Physics, Organon, Metaphysics

>>11246461
Gorgias and the Phaedrus should be read before the Republic. Protagoras, Parmenides, Timaeus, and the Theaetetus should be read after, and then read the Laws. The Metaphysics and the Nichomachean Ethics are porably Aristotle's most important works. The Organon is also important for setting the foundation of logic, but it has been outclassed.

>>11245820
Lol just read philosophy textbooks. They're much more to the point and will save you time to read other things.

Putting this here, does anyone know when the last time the google philosophy general has been updated was? Any plans for that to start delving into more contemporary things?

>>11247558
Don't just do this.

>>11245820
Nothing besides Kant matters

>>11247115
don't do this, its retarded nad very bad

Read Bertrand Russell's history of western philosophy, it's a great oversight that gives you a broad enough knowledge to know who you want to study next and a bit of the context that the philosophers of the past worked in.

>>11249728
>it's a great oversight
that's for sure

>>11245820

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y8_RRaZW5X3xwztjZ4p0XeRplqebYwpmuNNpaN_TkgM/mobilebasic?pli=1

>>11249858
Do you have an answer to >>11247641 by chance?

Does anyone rate Tao Te Ching?
Picked it up a while ago and haven't had time to read it ;_;

>>11245820
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
Dubliner by James Joyce
Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust
Ulysses by James Joyce

>>11247641
>>11249884
The more contemporary things can be found in the analytic and continental links at the bottom.

Start with the Greeks, ascend to the Romans, and finish with the Scholastics. Avoid Descartes and everyone after him because all they did was make a mess of things for no good reason. The moderns abandoned purpose or teleology but they didn't like the results and they've been trying to find meaning ever since.

>>11250020
>mfw people need tutorials to use tutorials