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My cousin asked me for philosophy recs what should I give him? He has been taking a philosophy class and has been going on about he has been getting brainfucked and how the Greeks were geniuses since they figured out there was one God and how mathematics is the language of God and has been saying a bunch of other cringe shit. He is a libertardian crapitalist christcuck (yes I live in America) and I would like to redpill him so what should I rec him? I want to redpill him subtly so I wont rec him any Marxist stuff yet or he will sperg out at me.

>> No.13877261

Nietzsche.

>> No.13877264

Evola.

>> No.13877265

Carl Jung and watch him spiral slowly into schizoid adjacent behavior.

>> No.13877267

your cousin sounds based, let him continue his travels

>> No.13877278

>>13877256
Plato
Why are you on lit if you don't read?

>> No.13877281

Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition is both broad and general enough to be accessible even without much background in philosophy, and sufficiently in depth about the entire tradition that it'll give you a workable overview from the Greeks through the Romans and Christians up to modernity and the 1950s, out of which you can branch out and choose how to continue your reading.

>> No.13877293

HRT, double dose if you want a real marxist.

>> No.13877295

Montaigne's Complete Essays
Pensees by Pascal
Ethics by Spinoza
The Genealogy of Morals by Nietzsche
Pragmatism and Other Writings by William James
Art as Experience by Dewey
Modes of Thought by Whitehead

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>>13877256
show him real libertarianism and un-christcuck him all at once.

>> No.13877318

>>13877256
>how the Greeks were geniuses since they figured out there was one God and how mathematics is the language of God and has been saying a bunch of other cringe shit. He is a libertardian crapitalist christcuck
He seems allright give him Hoppe and get out the blast radius.

>> No.13877370

>>13877278
Plato was wrong about everything though

>> No.13877373

>>13877256
Just have him read something like The Mind's Eye or something with dilemmas introduced through narrative.

>> No.13877380

>>13877370
No, he was right about most things.

>> No.13877382

>>13877256
he sounds like somebody who just listens to anybody who forces shit the hardest down his throat, so you can decide for yourself

>> No.13877383

>>13877370
reatrd ed

>> No.13877396

>>13877256
He seems nice if he outgrows his capitalist shit, or at least grows some real self-awareness over it (which might be hard for an american)
Maybe show him some of Das Kapital? Chomsky or Mark Fischer maybe? Whitehead?

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>>13877370

>> No.13877944

>>13877256
camus

>> No.13877962

>>13877256
>christcuck
>marxist
Yikes, tr*nny detected! Enjoy eternal damnation!

>> No.13877990

>>13877256

>moar philosophy

The Little Prince by St Exupery

>> No.13878071

Tell him to read Plato's Gorgias and Diogenes Laertius' Lives of the Eminent Philosophers.

>> No.13878080

>>13877370
Handicapped leper detected

>> No.13878138

>>13877281
that book is an absurd farce of a philosopher desperately trying to convince themselves that they are not "just" a philosopher by talking about "vita activa"

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>>13877256
Discipline and Punish was one of the more engaging works I found early. It asks a lot of very interesting questions, and is generally not terribly difficult to get through for someone new to this sort of thing

>> No.13880130

>>13877256
it seems to me that he is already based and redpilled and that you're the one that needs to get some red-pilling

>> No.13880160

>>13877265
>jung
>>>reddit

>>13877256
You are the one who needs to learn, your cousin is fine. For you I would suggest some ayn rand. You both have a lot in common. You don’t have your own ideas, you hide behind socialism to conceal your fascism, and you take the works of an infinitely more intelligent person and rework the original meaning to fit your ideals.

3/10 bait, got me to actually reply

>> No.13880678 [DELETED] 

Marx was a faggot anyway. That won't redpill anyone.

>> No.13880686

>>13877256
Marx is a faggot. Only a faggot would try to redpill someone with Marx, Hegel, Lenin, and so forth. Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and Schopenhauer are the answers you're looking for.

>> No.13880741

>>13880130
Faggot OP seems to be trying to bluepill the guy.

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>>13877256
>marxist stuff
>redpill
>animeposting

>> No.13881833

>>13877256
Jiddu Krishnamurti. Better to have his mind permanently blown sooner rather than later.