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Whats the tl:dr of most necessary philosophy books to read in order to read and understand the 19-20th century philosophers starting with the Greeks /lit/? I dont want to spend decades reading every single book in this list
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y8_RRaZW5X3xwztjZ4p0XeRplqebYwpmuNNpaN_TkgM/mobilebasic?pli=1

>> No.11692050

Just read:
Plato
Aristotle
Aquinas
Descartes/Liebniz/Spinoza
Locke/Berkeley/Hume
Kant
And you're good to go. The guide is fucking retarded

>> No.11692056

>>11692030
read whatever attracts you.

>> No.11692220

I'm going in the order of "/lit/'s Guide to Philosophy" found in a series of images on the Wiki. So far so good.

>> No.11692247

>>11692050
yikes

>> No.11692249

>>11692030

>Whats the tl:dr of most necessary philosophy books to read

Just read. The philosophers themselves will tell you who they are dealing with. Just read what they read. It's like looking-up footnotes. Is this beyond your grasp for some reason?

>> No.11692313

>>11692249

>read halfway through wikipedia article on descartes
>decide you are ready for the first critique
>read through first page slowly
>completely lose control and run through the introduction comprehending absolutely nothing
>give up probably long before even reaching the transcendental aesthetic
>decide you should probably start from the beginning
>read some of plato
>feeling good about your progress so you devise a more complex list
>quickly get overwhelmed
>look at span of history between plato and kant
>despair
>give up and just read what you wanted to read originally
>feeling good again
>become interested in other philosophers that are being referenced in the work you're reading
>read them
>dont understand what their saying
>>11692247
whats your sugestion?

etc etc

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>>11692313

Quite the pickle.
You are off to a good start though. Keep probing thinkers that interest you. Find works that aren't completely above your head. Your task is to identify philosophical works that you can partially understand given your current state. A chronological bias will emerge, but don't let it tyrannize you. Dive into those first. Avoid secondary literature if you can. All in all, it's like one of those old Mega Man games.

>> No.11693726

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