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>>13555579
Nice one Josef

>>13555509
Heraclitus, Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Augustine, Aquinas, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Kant and Hegel.

This is the absolute cannon. Read them and you'll know the truth of Being.

>>13555893
>Read them and you'll know the truth of Being.

>>13555893
>Hegel
>the truth of Being and not the truth of Becoming

also

>the truth of Being
>no Heidegger

>>13555509
>Is it bullshit?
If you find physics bullshit, then yes.

>Which philosophers are the most significant
>>13555893 is a decent summary regarding the Western philosophy, but you would be naïve to think those are the only significant ones.

>>13555509
Its an example of keeping your mind so open your brain falls out.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/20/alchemy_sentence/

>>13557123
No, it's an example of being closed minded against traditional thought instead of "new" thought.

>>13555509
>Redpill me on metaphysics.
It is basically the examination of the nature of reality, including what reality even is
>Is it bullshit?
It is kind of like psychology: A valid and highly important field of study, that is full of charlatans, nutjobs, and idiots.
>Which philosophers are the most significant?
Honestly, all big philosophers tack on it in some level, but you only need Aristotle, Hume, Descartes, and Kant to get all the juicy bits.

>>13555509
20th century philosophers love to say that metaphysics is bad but then replace it with something that is basically metaphysics. Heidegger replaces it with fundamental ontology, Marx and Engels replace it with dialectical materialism, and Wittgenstein replaces it with linguistic analysis of metaphysical claims.

Retard thread, get the fuck off /lit/ dumb highschooler
Never make a thread on this board ever again

>>13558705
Fuck you, dilweed
And fuck jannies

>>13558705

>>13555509

>>13555893
absolute nonsense, most of these are systematisers which by definition means it cannot be metaphysics.

OP read the upanishads, brahma sutras and bhagavad gita preferably with adi shankaras commentary.

The upanishads pre-date anything these brainlets above have written by a very long time and nothing they have written even comes close to what is contained within them.

>>13559948

>>13559948
This, Shankara is essential but it's also good to read the pre-socratics, Plato, Plotinus, Proclus, Hermes, Pseudo-Dionysus, Meister Eckhart, Eirugena, Tao Te Ching, Zhuangzi, Abhinavagupta, Jnanadeva, Ibn Arabi, Sanai, Jami and Dolpopa also. Most post-medieval European philosophers dont really have anything that unique or valuable to say but are more systematizing previous ideas and reacting to the degradation of modern thought, this is why so many modern thinkers like Hegel, Schelling, Heideggar etc relied so much on material dating from western antiquity (platonism, hermeticism etc). If you just read the best eastern thinkers and western thought from the Greeks to Eirugena, Bohme and Eckhart everything after them becomes optional and redundant unless you want to read thousands of pages that are basically just cope about modern society being devoid of spirituality and meaning or angloid analytic garbage.