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What are some essential practical books for a fresh grad, or any grown person for that matter?

>> No.15039738

>>15039726
Wash youre benis by Jrodand Patersonn

>> No.15039761

>>15039726
What's practical?

>> No.15039786

The Bible

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15039805

>>15039726
Being and Time.

>> No.15039824

>>15039726
Some spiritual gains:

Alan Watts - Out of your Mind
Eckhart Tolle - The Power of Now

How To Win Friends And Influence People
The Art Of Not Giving A Fuck

The titles suck but the content is legit

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>>15039726
Some spiritual gains:

Mathews
Timaeus
On the Wisdom of Life
Carlyle's On Hero Worship
Parzival by Wolfram

>> No.15039887

>>15039838
Carlyle's work seems interesting. Thanks anon.

>>15039824
Ive read and liked win friends, but I couldn't bear the art. Seemed a bit too tryhard. Thanks.

>>15039761
Anything from how to invest, fix apartment, to dealing with the struggles of responsibility.

>>15039805
Do i need any other books read besides this? Only have plato and the stoics under my belt.

>> No.15040004

>>15039887
>Carlyle's work seems interesting. Thanks anon.
He's definitely one of the most influential writers of the 19th century, but has been regretfully forgotten because of his absolute sense of historic certainty in judgement (since he wrote histories of various things; predominantly the French Revolution and Frederick the Great), his adoration for the Germans and "great-men", his critique of materialist England at the time and his anti-liberal views. And stylistically no one influenced Dickens more.

Read the first five or ten pages of his essay on heroes then watch this video but not to the end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74V6lHh97yo

>>15039887
>Do i need any other books read besides this? Only have plato and the stoics under my belt.
Lol, an absolute fucking ton. You really have to have read the predominant most of Western philosophy and religion and some mysticism and definitely some East Asianism to understand. The presocratics, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, medieval theology in general, Descartes, Kant(which requires a whole preparation reading of his own like Hume and Locke and such), German Idealists but specifically Hegel(most don't realise how massively influential he was to Heidegger) and esoterically Schelling, Holderlin, Schopenhauer, Wagner, Nietzsche, Brentano and Husserl. And then of course to understand his ideas you have to have read the great poets and such and so forth, like anything really you must know history. He's no where near as hard as I'm making out, but understanding his historic place makes these figures necessary.

Read this, then watch it sometime after:

https://www.counter-currents.com/2014/09/martin-heidegger/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_os-ysZJM_I