How does one read philosophy?

[Anonymous No.17359111]

How should you go about reading a philosophy book (the primary source ones straight from the actual philosopher). what's your procedure, /lit/? do you use an only study guide/commentary or nah?

[Anonymous No.17359117]

>>17359111
Read a Philosophy textbook, anon. There are plenty and most (probably all) address this.

[Anonymous No.17359129]

>>17359111
I try to understand the metaphysical aspects they have like whether their ontological dimensions are monist or dualist etc. That takes care of almost everything for me desu.

[Anonymous No.17359144]

Write notes/paraphrases, even for seemingly unimportant stuff. Helps make sure you actually comprehend the material and can communicate its ideas.

[Anonymous No.17359190]

>>17359144
good idea, they wouldn't have put it in the text unless it was important lol

[Jesus No.17359993]

>>17359111
shitting in bathroom

[Anonymous No.17359995]

Not sure how to quantify this but keep at it for years and it becomes really rewarding, there is a shitty temptation to think you've figured it all out and start looking for a thinker or system to identify with as some kind of fashion statement. This is normal to an extent since you necessarily lack the perspective at that early stage to see how limited your perspective is, you obviously can't know what you don't know. But it is exacerbated by modern culture of laziness and instant gratification, plus online posturing of fags who want street cred for reading Deleuze. Stick with it past that phase (actually it's more like 5 phases, because you keep thinking you're not philosophically immature anymore and you've finally made it, and then you break through to another level and realize you were still immature that past year) and you will eventually experience true happiness.

One way to accelerate the process is to tackle something in a way that simply cannot be done lazily or by watching the occasional youtube video, or pinning all of your philosophical aspirations on "getting" Heidegger so that all you care about is "getting" Heidegger (which imperceptibly transmutes into "being seen by others as someone who gets Heidegger"), instead pick actual difficult texts or authors and make it your personal mission to understand them inside and out. Not in some vague way, I mean in the way that you could look at a car or a gun and think "No matter how long it takes or how many auxiliary and subsidiary skills I have to learn in the process, I will learn to take this thing apart and put it back together again and how every single part and aspect of it works."

There is something to be said for immersing yourself in trendy postmodern bullshit until you can play around with the concepts in it through a kind of intuition or instinct, but you should assign yourself concrete research tasks too. Pick something and read it, inside and out, and read 10 books about it and its context. This also helps you form hard nodes of understanding from which you can expand to other nodes and build a web of knowledge, each node of which you know is secure, so you no longer feel like you're relying solely on intuitive/instinctive "i kinda get this shit now" BSing.