how do i become a patrician, boys?

[Anonymous No.11284208]

What are some important readings vital to attainment of patrician status? I'm a philosophy graduate, so I'm familiar with the Greeks and Romans. However, I MUST go deeper!

Also, any recommendations on art history books? I may be a fag, but I would like to be a smarter fag, if you catch my drift.

[Anonymous No.11284228]

If you have to ask you are not a patrician. Following someone else's path is not patrician. Find what interests you and go deeper.

[Anonymous No.11284235]

>>11284228

valid point

[Anonymous No.11284243]

>>11284228

that's really the only advice i needed.

[Anonymous No.11284490]

>>11284208
Start with the Greeks, but really read them all and especially read everything attributed to Plato and Aristotle.

After that really you can move chronologically but it’s best to find your niche, like American fiction or realist fiction and read widely and deeply in that area.

[Anonymous No.11284583]

>>11284490

just finished a pretty wide reading of Greek and Roman Stoicism. been chipping away at the complete works of Plato, but I'm embarrassingly unfamiliar with Aristotle.

Is a chronological reading vital?

[Anonymous No.11284607]

>>11284208
You should be familiar with the totality of modern philosophy, from Descartes to Hegel and Nietzsche

[Anonymous No.11284626]

>>11284208
ITT: people eating the bait

[Anonymous No.11284724]

>>11284626

no bait here. looking for some reading recommendations. How dare I ask, huh?
quit being a pansy.

[Anonymous No.11284731]

>>11284607

hegel and Schopenhauer are some of the modern philosophers I have yet to familiarize myself with, so thanks for that.

[Anonymous No.11285031]

>>11284208
Bumping for art history recs

[Anonymous No.11286253]

>>11284208

Read Guenon, and after you are familiar with him study the various texts of Advaita Vedanta, Daoism, Sufism, Mahayana and Zen. Then (assuming you've already read the most important western stuff) you will be patrician.

[Anonymous No.11287530]

>>11284208
For fiction this is all you need and most other fiction is irrelevant:
>Dubliners by James Joyce
>Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
>Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust
>Ulysses by James Joyce, accompanied page-by-page by The New Bloomsday guidebook.
>The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust
>Moby Dick Herman Melville
>Madame Bovary by Flaubert
>The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky
>Ficciones by Borges

[Anonymous No.11287546]

>>11284208
>so I'm familiar with the Greeks and Romans. However, I MUST go deeper!
Sounds like you want to go wider, not deeper. That's fine for some but I personally don't recommend it. It doesn't get more patrician than the Greeks and Romans desu. I guarantee you don't know them as well as you should. Hardly anyone does. You should revisit them and read the obscure thinkers you haven't read. And you should read every piece of secondary literature on them available from your library and interlibrary loan. Go on jstor and read academic papers on the Greeks and Romans. Familiarize yourself with as much thought from the ancients and about them as possible. Only then will you be patrician.

[Anonymous No.11287557]

>>11287530
This is actually a good suggestion, OP.

[Anonymous No.11288744]

>>11284208
bump

[Anonymous No.11288855]

>>11284208
Absolute middlebrow.

[Anonymous No.11288882]

Grapple with the Greeks

[Anonymous No.11289961]

>>11284208
Mein Kampf

[Anonymous No.11289978]

>>11284208
Wouldn't you rather be a good, happy person? An exemplar to your lessers and admired by your betters, even those that don't like you?

[Anonymous No.11290214]

>>11287530
>half of proust

absolute plebbery

[Anonymous No.11290221]

>>11284208
>”See it says right here, traps are gay.”