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What book made you reconsider your world view?

>> No.16514276

>>16514258

>Metamorphoses by Ovid

Made me rethink causality, my own importance, and made me see my very loose grasp on meaning in the face of a constantly changing world

>> No.16515400

Imperialism by Hobson
Capital by Marx

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>>16514258

>https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/21/4/11-0793_article#:~:text=The%20phrase%20%E2%80%9Clives%20of%20a%20cell%E2%80%9D%20refers%20to,we%20would%20not%20have%20the%20capacity%20for%20thought%2C

Read this when I was younger and it affected me quite deeply. It's basically a collection of essays by a respected biologist.

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>>16514258
Critique of Literary Reason: Philosophical materialism as Theory, Critique and Dialectic of Literature

>> No.16515501

>>16514258
>The Rape of Lucrece
Made me a male feminist

>> No.16515525

>>16514258
lolita

>> No.16515587

>>16514258
Animal Farm. Read it when I was in highschool.
Made me realize that, despite how well-intentioned revolutionaries may be, they're corruptible (assuming they aren't ill-intentioned liars in the first place). Either that or they're pawns.

>> No.16515610

>>16515587
Read "The Khruschevites" by Enver Hoxha and "Khruschev lied" by Grover Furr. I can give you an explanation as to why he seized power in a military coup if you care further.

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>>16514258
The Ethics by Spinoza
His conception of God and the striving for the extension of one’s power of action did not completely change my worldview, only better express thoughts I already had; but his conception of human freedom deeply affected me. Prior to reading The Ethics I was quite fundamentally ideologically liberal (despite fairly strong nationalist beliefs) in that I believed freedom of action to be the most important thing to have, to be able to do what you want despite the outer expectations of others or of a fundamental truth. The Ethics made me realise that doing what you want to do isn’t freedom, doing what is rational is freedom, you shouldn’t be permitted to do anything because many things are totally irrational. Not that one can’t enjoy oneself or have fun but one can do that without it being a detriment to yourself or society at large. On the whole it greatly improved my life, I went from being fairly aimless to studying medicine in preparation for a job I’d find productive and fulfilling, I’m in much better shape than I was (mainly from exercise as diet was always ok), and certainly happier.

The order and connection of my ideas truly did come to affect the order and connection of my physical life.

>> No.16516053

>>16514258
The World as Will and Representation

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>> No.16516197

Rousseau's Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men when I was 14 was a pretty important book for me.

>> No.16516211

>>16514258
Not sure if this is truly related to op, but I didn't feel like it deserved it's own thread.

Are there any books that would help me come to terms with my own stupidity? I feel as though all the misfortune and grief that befalls me is my own doing and purely because I'm a smoothbrain.

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>> No.16516278

>>16515613
>The Ethics made me realise that doing what you want to do isn’t freedom, doing what is rational is freedom

John Selden:

The uncertainty and inconsistency with which the free and unadorned application of reason has always been burdened…. [N]o one of any education can be unaware that in ancient times even the masters and practitioners of right reason, i.e., the philosophers, took part in endless discussions about good and evil, and the boundaries that separated them, in which they were completely at odds with one another. There was no one to put an end to these disputes. The number of sectarian groups multiplied, and so many new doctrines sprouted up that even though the study of philosophy was based upon the most careful reasoning possible given the intelligence and talents of its practitioners, the number of its schools would easily have reached [the apocryphal figure of] 288 if every difference in doctrine had been formalized. … Thus people who have set about seeking the universal principles of living well have arrived at very different conclusions, among which everyone considers his own to be the best, and usually either condemns or criticizes everyone else’s. … Hence both Zeno and Chrysippus, as well as the Persian Magi, considered relations with one’s mother and even with one’s daughter to be permitted, just as were relations with other men; and the philosopher Theodorus said the same about theft, sacrilege, and adultery. And yet the jurist Ulpian (who was not even a Christian) and others of the pagans said explicitly that these are crimes against nature; while Theodotus, Diagoras of Melos, and some other well-known writers completely undermined all the fear and respect that rein in humanity by claiming that the gods did not exist. Add to these Plato, the most divinely inspired of all philosophers, who believed that women should be held in common and people should be able to have sex with almost anyone they want; and the others who thought that all possessions should be shared as though the law required it. Then there are the teachings of Archelaus, Aristippus and Carneades, according to which nothing at all that is just depends upon nature; rather, what we call “just” is based in fact on written law, and on the preferences or interests of human beings…. And yet we hear everywhere that law (especially natural law) is right reason; and everyone agrees with this sentiment, even those who disagree fiercely about what “right reason” is. … We should therefore use with caution, and not be too quick to depend upon, the unfettered and simple application of analytical reason alone, which is often thought to be so unpredictable and unstable that what one person sees (particularly in this kind of investigation) as a very evident principle, or a conclusion which follows from a principle, will often seem to another person of equal intelligence to be obviously false and worthless, or at least inadmissible as truth.

>> No.16516298

>>16514258
Anything by Marx. Human thought begins and ends with him.

>> No.16516506

>>16516298
cease living

>> No.16516514

>>16514258
Every book? When I read, I take in information, and with new information, I can alter my world view to be more accurate to reality

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>> No.16516910

>>16516298
Holy based

>> No.16516915

Good’ol reliable “Mein Kampf

>> No.16517194

By god this board is shit
>>16516915
Only based post itt

>> No.16517834

Violence and the Sacred
Genealogy of Morals
Critique of Pure Reason

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>> No.16518016

Schopenhauer probably had a great influence on my world view, he at least helped establishing it

>> No.16518027

>>16518016
Did you read the Greeks and Kant before reading Schopenhauer?
I've seen quotes and videos on Youube about him and I'm extremely interested in his Philosophy. But without prior knowledge I won't understand it.

>> No.16518032

>>16514258
The Bible is the only correct answer.

>> No.16518041

>>16514258
1. Sextus Empiricus
2. On Freedom, John Stuart Mill
3. Nietzsche
4. Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel

>> No.16518058

>>16518027
You can read his Wisdom of Life without any prior knowledge. It's a short and simple book containing some guidance, you could probably even file it under "self-help literature", but it's nonetheless worth reading for anyone, in my opinion, and shaped and strengthed my every day behaviour to an extent.

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16518069

There's a part in Xenophon's Anabasis where the Greeks were being attacked at the bottom of a mountain, and they decided to charge up it. Xenophon was riding his horse up, and one of his soldiers remarked that it was unfair, so Xenophon got off his horse and took his soldiers shield, carrying the same burden. He then told his men to overtake him up the mountain if they could, and to show him the path to victory.

I couldn't stop thinking about this after I read it, I was a minimum wage cuck at the time working in retail. I started looking down on my managers with disgust of how they treated their staff, I started working harder to show their incompetence, my co-workers started respecting me more than them.

I honestly think it was that passage that changed how I behaved, and I'll always despise 'leaders' that do less work than the people under them.

>> No.16518071

>>16518058
Thank you.

>> No.16518094

>>16518069
great book but midwit take desu
hope you've outgrown this

>> No.16518100

The Bible
Notes from the Underground
Industrial Society and its Future

>> No.16518129

The crisis of the modern world, by R. B. Guénon

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>>16514258

>> No.16518300

>>16514258
i will cum in her eyes and blind her so she can never read again

>> No.16518344

>>16517978
I want to face fuck her so bad

>> No.16519181

>>16517978
what is she waiting for?

>> No.16520298

>>16518069
THE SEA! THE SEA!
btw the other anon is right
the patrician take would be that all the best men lead from the front, but some retail managercuck and his underlings are so far from the soldierly ideal that to compare the two would be an exercise in stupidity
I hope you have moved on and found peers and superiors worthy of your efforts, anon...

>> No.16521696

>>16517978
nice

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>>16518032
Same here.
Reading the bible made me reconsider being a Christian.

>> No.16521980

>>16514258
Das Capital

>> No.16522610

>>16514258
Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines

>> No.16523282

>>16514258
No Longer Human by osamu dazai didn't change my world view but it did reinforce what I already believed and gave my some edgy quotes to articulate feelings I didn't know how to express.

>> No.16523480

At 13 I read The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer and it made me commit to Christian Baptism.

pretty good, would still recommend, Bonny is based

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>> No.16523558

>>16523502
kek
based coomer

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>>16523502

>> No.16523873

>>16516189
based and redpilled

>> No.16524156

>>16523502
Is this real

>> No.16524189

>>16521965
such a shame a sizable portion of /lit/ is more represents by the left of that image

>> No.16524290

>>16523502
My boss just fired me thanks a lot.

>> No.16524693

>>16523502
Sawce?

>> No.16526128

The God Delusion.

It made me an atheist though I'd say I'm agnostic now. At least I'm free from christianity.

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>> No.16526943

>>16526570
In what way did it change you?

>> No.16526957

>>16514258
Nicomachean Ethics

>> No.16526963

>>16514258
My Struggle

>> No.16526964

>>16518094
Actual moron

>> No.16527807

>>16523502
is that that russian chick?

>> No.16527812

The Book by Alan Watts

>> No.16527815

>>16514258
None yet, because I'm not so hasty that I adopt a life view that'll get overturned by any single book

>> No.16527817

>>16514258
Mind is a Myth

>> No.16527827

>>16515587
>can only come up with animal farm, his assigned reading in high school
shiggity diggity, my dude.