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Anonymous Sat Jan 23 04:18:02 2021 No.17359920 [Reply] [Original]

I want some easy to read philosophers

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 23 04:19:57 2021 No.17359924 Plato, Nietzsche, Aristotle's political and aesthetic writings, Berkeley

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 23 04:20:15 2021 No.17359925 >>17359920 Plato isn't that hard, but get a textbook, anon. You'll get more out of everything. Even out of Plato, when you read him later.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 23 04:20:47 2021 No.17359926 >>17359920 Read Spinoza.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 23 04:21:44 2021 No.17359928 Boethius

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 23 04:22:03 2021 No.17359929 >>17359925 And don't use Russel's History of Philosophy as your only source. He is ok, it is probably worth to check him out. Some of his stuff is amusing, but don't use it as your main book.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 23 04:29:35 2021 No.17359946 >>17359920 >>17359929 If you are interested in mathematical analysis and philosophy I recommend, wholeheartedly, Russell's Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy. It is exceedingly readable and pairs well with modern analysis books.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 23 04:59:58 2021 No.17360074 >>17359924 Aren't plato and nietzche really difficult to properly interpret? >>17359926 He doesn't look that easy glancing at ethics >>17359928 Never heard of him >>17359946 I don't know logic & I'm bad at math...

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 23 05:38:47 2021 No.17360226 >>17359920 Epicurus

Anonymous Sat Jan 23 05:46:12 2021 No.17360251

>>17360074
>Aren't plato and nietzche really difficult to properly interpret
For Nietzsche in particular, it's more that people try to talk about him without having read him
He's one of those authors who you can tell whether someone has read or are just using a YouTube video/sparknotes as their source
He's actually really jolly to read and to understand
I've never heard that about Plato though, a lot of people find the earlier dialogues tiring since they are inconclusive, otherwise he's very clear, easy and enjoyable
His three epistemological works are tiring but they're three out of almost thirty
Plato and Nietzsche specifically are by far the most pleasant philosophers to read
>Boethius
The last Roman philosopher, his consolations are very fun to read

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 23 05:49:51 2021 No.17360266 >>17360226 Yeah dude, he's going to read Epicurus' extant meteorological letters Exactly

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 23 06:30:59 2021 No.17360473 Alain de Botton really isn't the best philospher/ philosophy critic, but his Consolations of Philosophy was a nice general introduction into the field for a brainlet like me

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 23 06:53:35 2021 No.17360549 >>17359920 Schopenhauer's essays are quite doable. Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem is an easy philosophical text, though you require some of the historical background.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 23 10:00:17 2021 No.17361367 Rousseau's Discourses

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 23 10:02:17 2021 No.17361374 Marcus Aurelius.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 23 10:04:02 2021 No.17361385 >>17359920 Marie Kondo

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 23 10:40:33 2021 No.17361573 >>17360251 I've never read Neetche, I just mindlessly repeat what Bataille, Deleuze and Klossowski said on him and I'm sure nobody can tell the difference

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 23 10:48:02 2021 No.17361624 >>17359920 Otto Weininger

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 23 12:52:15 2021 No.17362406 >>17359920 PLATO SCHOPENHAUER

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 23 12:56:22 2021 No.17362434 >>17360074 Plato is really easy to read but there's a lot of depth to his positions you only get when reading other stuff

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 23 13:04:19 2021 No.17362490 >>17359920 pascal is really easy

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 23 13:35:23 2021 No.17362721 >>17362406 This. Also Foucault.

Anonymous Sat Jan 23 14:06:56 2021 No.17362975

>>17362434
A lot of what I got out of plato was the process of his argumentation as opposed to the material content he talks about. One of the ways I test people on this is have them read Ion because it's short and it's about the nature of knowledge. If someone gets too in the weeds about the references and the particular examples as opposed to the broader concept of where knowledge comes from and the process of asking questions about that idea, then you know how to guide that person on their subsequent readings of plato. It's part of the reason why I'm not a big fan of secondary sources for plato because it's like the autistic kid talking about the origin of evas when the show is about personal growth and social dynamics.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 23 14:29:02 2021 No.17363163 >>17362406 Can I read Schopenhauer without anything else? Like only quick reading of some secondary sources on Kant. >>17362721 Is it necessary to read anything before him?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 23 14:43:36 2021 No.17363296 Epictetus

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 23 15:03:42 2021 No.17363451 >>17359920 Stoics

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 23 15:29:08 2021 No.17363648 Michael Dummet Thomas Carlyle Rousseau Jonardon Ganesh Catherine Elgin Kwame Appiah

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 23 15:30:11 2021 No.17363663 Ganeri, not Ganesh, typo

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