/lit/ - Literature

I've never read a book in 10 years where do I start

Ride the Tiger

On the genealogy of morality by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche.

Critique of Pure Reason by Kant.

Tao Te Ching

>>20042667
The greeks.... syposium is really simple and short start there.

>>20042669
Memebook. Don't read.
>>20042670
Also memebook. Don't read.
>>20042684
Bait becaue it's a difficult text.
>>20042691
Good book, but it will teach you nothing about actual phiilosophy i.e. Western philosophy.
>>20042837
This basically. The Republic is a good start too. If you're not into classics, no point in starting philosophy at all because it's a classicist tradition.

Pic related is objectively the best start though. You acquire exceptional foundations in literature, history, drama, oratory, philosophy, and science.

>>20042667
Start with the Turbo Philosophorum. All of your favourite philosophers in one dialogue.

>>20042667
Start with the Greeks, unironically.
Alternatively, start with the idealists and work your way from Descartes over Hume and Locke to Kant. Then go back to the Greeks. You can't get around the Greeks no matter what.

>>20042667
The Republic. Read it like literature. Try to understand it, then critique it, then understand it again and realize there's another layer.

>>20042843
>>20042894
>>20042987
Yup start with Plato or the pre-Socratics. If you start with Plato, I wouldn’t start with the Republic. Start with the Last Days of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, then Phaedo) than move on the the Republic.

>>20042667
Its false knowledge and a waste of time.

don't be a retard and start rawdogging the greeks. get an history of phil book and check out some secondary sources once you have figured out what you're interested in.

>>20042667
The Republic.

Sophies's World

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