/lit/ - Literature

>>11762728
WHY?! WHY MUST YOU TORMENT ME SO WITH THESE JEZEBELS? All I want to do is come here for an asexual experience that will exercise my brain but I am constantly titillated by these vixens with their prodigious hips and provocative figures. Can I never satiate this thirst, will I ever know the touch of a woman and enter between her loins? Will my seed ever drip from her moistened hole?

>>11762728
Fuck off Jezebel poster you are never gona make it

i think that is not really easy to answer without some more details about you. how old are you, how well-read are you in general, do you just want to dip in your toes or want to get really into it?

I want to caress Irene's face, gently kiss her lips, then make love to her!

>>11762751
im no longer in college and doing a PhD right now in an unrelated field. I'm fairly well read and had some philosophy courses in college, mostly about philosophy of Mind and some epistemology. But that's it.

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

>>11762760
damn this is pretty good

Hm. Normally my first tip for getting into this topic is "Sophie's World" by Jostein Gaarder, but that might be a little to superficial/light for you. (It is a great book nevertheless.) Maybe you could start with "A History of Western Philosophy" by Bertrand Russell. It is a great overview and covers all of the important western philosophers. It may be a good starting point, giving you "the basics".

>>11762789
That book is generally regarded as garbage.

>>11762736
Dude wtf

>>11762728
>no qt Portuguese gf to read Pessoa with

>>11762736
>tfw i live in an east asian country and all the women around me are ugly
Curse and a blessing

Just bought a new history of western philosophy by Kenny. Hopefully it's good.

>>11762792
Yeah, I don't think so. It may not be the most scientific piece of work on this planet, but it is readable, gives you a good overview includiding historical context. It is, in my opinion, a good starting point. And a lot of my university profs thought the same.

>>11762811
You're from a dirty analytical school, aren't you?

>>11762814
:D i will not comment on that.
But regardless, when you got someone who wants to get into philosophy with a broad interrest from the greeks to Nietzsche, isn't it best to start with a catalogue and say "look, what is interresting to you?" and giving overall context on the other hand. Wether you choose Russel or Anthony Kenny's "A New History Of Western Philosophy" (which may actually be the better choice).

>>11762728

>afraid to not looking cool while learning something

grow up

>>11762873
>fundamentally misunderstanding philosophy is the same as being 'uncool'

t. NPC

>>11762728

I don't study philosophy but most of my closest friends do so here goes: Doesn't matter how much of a retard you are, you can never read anything wrong. The act of thinking about something is philosophy and whatever you say is just some new Idea you came up with. But don't be lazy you don't ever want to have someone tell you about a philosopher and you haven't read what they said etc. / plagiarize them without knowing.

>>11762728
Just acknowledge that what you glean from a first reading of a philosophy book will be very little, and most of that will likely be misinformed.

I say go ahead and read it. But then read 10 more books about the history of that time, what informed Nietzsche, criticism, etc. Then read it again.

stop overthinking it leads you into becoming a pretentious retard like most of /lit/

>http://gimnazija-osma-tbrezovackog-zg.skole.hr/upload/gimnazija-osma-tbrezovackog-zg/newsattach/872/The_Philosophy_Book_(gnv64).pdf

very superficial, but offers a brief glampse

>>11762943
*glance, kek

>>11762728
Remember that Nietzsche's final axiom is that his students must end him

>>11762967
So if you don't end Nietzsche, then you defy him, which would end him as well, causing a paradox.

>>11762728
Manual de filosofía portátil de Juan Arnau
El gran asombro de Jeanne Hersch
Una pequeña historia de la filosofia, de Nigel Warburton

Those are really good. Find them in english.

>>11763037
what crazy language is this?

nietzsche is just recycled greeks

>>11763087
It's Spanish language, monolingual dolt.

>>11763087
>Ser así de plebeyo

>>11762800
I thought flips are cuties

>>11762728
>afraid of misunderstanding something
This should only be a problem if you're pompous and arrogant about it.

>>11763256
It's also a problem if you really want to understand a philosopher, especially one who seemingly contradicts himself and writes in satire, such as Nietzsche.

>>11763092
all of western phil is just that

Misreading is essential for Philosophy, Anon. The entire history of the Philosophy is history of misreadings. Or interpretations at different levels of autismo.

If it brings you joy - go for it.

>>11762998
What's the problem with a paradox?

>>11762728
I remember seeing that girl in the original video. Melts my heart a little.

Don't read primary sources. Just read the most cited secondary sources and copy their opinions and explanations

>>11763549
Whew okay caffeine is wearing off, >>11762998
This argument is dependent on outruling time. To deny Nietzsche is different than finishing his argument. His final argument is not the path of enlightenment but the path of disillusionment and those are highly different. One is dependent on false idols and one on an embracement of some idealism, Nietzsche's hottake on the matter is that we must usurp our own principals, our culture's principals, and prinicipals in general to create our own system, which ends us back at Nietzsche himself, the proclamation of the idealism that cultural idealism is meaningless in nature, and confronts us with Nietzsche himself. Denying this is saying that there are idols and goods of cultural import, and is not necessarily predicated on Nietzsche but on abstracta irrelevant therefrom

>>11763592
>caffeine is wearing off

>>11762943
GGG>>>TITUŠ

>>11763037
Lecciones preliminares de filosofía de Manuel García Morente

>>11763995
sorry, i'm too brainlet to understand your reference

>>11763995
huh

>>11763592
>caffeine is wearing off

>>11763578
How do you find out which ones are mostly cited?

>>11763794
>>11764857
Both of you should be castrated and then shot.

>>11764885
It'd be a lot easier to just shoot them.

>>11762728
is she on drugs?
or just shy or smth?
whats with all those oscilating pupils

>>11762760
>crashcourse isn't listed under degenerate pedagogues
They literally have the most viewed philosophy content out there, don't fucking tell me that the anon who made this has a boner for john green. Someone fix the omission.

>>11762760
>Nietzsche and Kierkegaard so far down
what an extensive, abhorrent meme this is.

>>11762843
"Looking at Philosophy" by Donald Palmer is less biased but yet easy to read, with nice little comics providing useful schematics or silly jokes that help you get concepts in an intuitive way.
It's expensive on print and the summaries of each author isn't too extensive, but it's used in a few Phil101 classes and a pdf of it is available on libgen.
I particularly enjoyed the chapter on scholasticism even tho I'm a filthy panatheist because medieval theologians had way more imagination than the fundamentalist opportunists of today.

>>11762736
fpbp

EYE

OF

>>11764950
There's a camera in her face and a dude talking to her off to the side, most people aren't sure what to do in front of a camera like that.

>>11762800
You're a brainlet if you aren't attracted to asian women