Liberal arts for the common man

[Anonymous No.10655849]

What kind of books on, for example, philosophy should I read as someone with a verbal IQ at 100?

Although I can read translations of various old works, I imagine that I'm losing out on a lot, and struggle with grasping in full what I do pick up.

Are there any respectable book series on such for the average joe?

[Anonymous No.10655908]

Option A: Take your time going through texts.
Nothing embarassing about that.
Option B: Read companions. Blackwell, Cambridge and Routledge are the ones you'll find most often on libgen.

[Anonymous No.10655909]

You start with the Greeks just like anyone else. What is the point of reading if you are not challenging yourself? Might as well stick to genre fiction otherwise.

[Anonymous No.10655940]

Obscurantists like Derrida. Derrida has a low level of philosophical argumentation, but he obscures it with overwrought prose and false profundity.

You'll "understand" Derrida's bullshit just the same as anyone else

[Anonymous No.10656146]

>>10655908
>>10655909
You really just think it's a matter of effort?

>>10655940
Figured there would be posts like this.

[Anonymous No.10656169]

>>10656146
>You really just think it's a matter of effort?
Yes. Look now. You say you're struggling with the text you read, no shit, you're SUPPOSED to. We all did. This is not womens' magazine articles we're talking about here, but serious philosophy. Not casual reading. You don't read the text, you fight the text.

[Anonymous No.10657111]

The Greeks - Aristotle and Plato wrote in a clear and concise.

Stay away Jews and meme philosophers like Nietzsche and Heidegger.

[Anonymous No.10657137]

>>10656169
Not to mention that it's not so much about reading a text as rereading it. Time is an ally, not an enemy. And we often grasp something better second time around, anyway. It is impossible to read literature once.

[Anonymous No.10657161]

Zen and the art of motorcycle maintanence