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im disabled and broke and can't really get to college for the foreseeable future, but id really like to learn about literature and philosophy
what should I do to educate myself beyond just reading the classics?

>> No.11726133

plz respond

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>>11725935
Start with the Greeks.

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Yale and Harvard have online lectures on several subjects up on YouTube which are useful for enhancing your learning. Supplement your reading of the classics with secondary texts, stuff like "The Cambridge/Routledge companion to [author]/[book]" or "Oxford handbook to [subject]" or Norton Critical Editions of selected works are examples of this (don't be afraid to make a thread here asking for good secondary on specific authors or works). Though this board may seem like a heaving morass of pseuds, if you ask specific questions about specific works you can often get good answers from knowledgeable anons. With philosophy you want to engage with the text as much as possible, so keep an exercise book and pen near you to jot down notes when you feel the need to. If you want to really get into it, then you should occasionally write essays on particular authors or texts, as this not only aids your comprehension but also improves your essay writing skills (and it's good practice if you're intending to go to college sometime in the future). You can usually find any text you're looking for on libgen or b-ok (check the sticky) in PDF form, so you don't need to spend any money if you don't want to. If you do all this, you'll be simulating a university learning environment quite well. And don't forget, we're always here if you need any help.

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>>11725935
This man is your friend

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>>11725935
are you real disabled or fake disabled?

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>>11726847
>list quickly turns to /pol/ rubbish
Gotta redpill those normies xD

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>>11726942
>/pol/ rubbish
>Has multiple Communist and Liberal writers
Gotta push my politics into every single conversation xD