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What's the best way to read philosophy? I often struggle understanding and retaining the information. Should I take notes as I read? Will that improve my comprehension?

>> No.16775482

>>16775469
have you tried smoking a little weed before reading? it works for me

>> No.16775506

>>16775482
I haven't. I'm not sure it will, though.

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>>16775469
Yes, take notes. You probably retain more than you think, but something that helps is just going for walks or drives and thinking about the material.

>> No.16775522

>>16775482
this

>> No.16775543

>>16775469
Try to read it as a metaphysics. Take down the more fundamental aspects before more derivative ones like how it defines truth, the structure of existence (ontological dimensions like monism dualism pluralism nihilism). After you've done this a bit it gets easier to see which makes sense and which doesn't (kants ontological splits of mind, Aristotle's governments). Everything can be derived pretty easily from those but it helps to go more derivative as well. You can see easier where their metaphysics contradicts or is conclusive of their metaphysics

>> No.16775563

>>16775513
I hope that I'm somehow absorbing what I read in a way that it infiltrates my own thoughts and influences my way of thinking even if I can't recall just where I got it from.