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Sup /lit/. I'm a dumb guy who never reads, but a conversation I've had with a fellow dumb guy yesterday made me really curious about a /lit/ topic, which is the origins of morals, customs, social habits, social institutions, etc.

I'm basically interested in reading the theories of the "historicity" of those things. Like, why we develop a certain moral code and why and when it changes. So if you guys could tell me what to read, that would be bananas.

Thanks.

>> No.12523747

>>12523735
History of Sexuality by michel foucault

t. asexual man

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a /lit/ meme is born
—better than Start with the Greeks
—recognizes Name of the Rose and The Divine Comedy as newfags’ starting point
—William of Baskerville is our role model

>> No.12523800

Hume's second Enquiry.

>> No.12523812

>>12523735
Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals (which was a huge inspiration for >>12523747) is right up your alley. He's basically answering to the question you're asking, plus a few other things. Birth of Tragedy (same author) might also be interesting in this respect.

You might also want to start reading sociology and history, unfortunately I'm not a /his/teric and I don't know any good introduction to those fields. So perhaps ask /his/ ?

>> No.12523826

>>12523735

The only starting point for whatever theoretical pursue you have in your life is Plato's Socratic dialogues. Start from the Apology and read the others, they are short but don't get tricked: they are not easy. That way, your brain will start think, and I mean really think, not the feeble bits of internal monologue you have been having up until now. It will be like taking a weird drug in the beginning and you will want to go back and give everything up, but if you can stick with the eerie pleasure of thinking by yourself without being spoonfed, you will go for another dialogue and then another. Very slowly, but very steadily, you will improve and start valuing posing the right questions and then searching for answers not in books but in yourself. New books are just occasions for new questions - never sources of information. And who knows? Step by step you may even begin to feel like a human being.

>> No.12523872

>dumb guy
Reading books does not equate intelligence. In fact, most people who read are idiots trying to compensate for their lack of intelligence. High IQ people don't need to waste their time reading things since all it would do is confirm their intuitions.

>> No.12523889

>>12523735
A short history of ethics - macintyre
On the Geneaology of Morals - nietzche

>> No.12523898

Don't ever tell me I didn't do anything for you, dumb guy.

https://www99.zippyshare.com/v/a4U8Y2v1/file.html

>> No.12523962

>>12523898
is this safe

>> No.12523982

>>12523962
Yes.

>> No.12524002

>>12523962
as safe as a walk though skidrow