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Anonymous Wed Feb 17 08:39:58 2021 No.17569267 [Reply] [Original]

I’m partway through marathoning this, it’s my first philosophy book. What do you think of it? And where should I go next after I’m done? Preferably something a bit less self help book-y. It’s good but it’s basically The Secret of old boomer times

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 17 08:45:45 2021 No.17569289 >>17569267 Do Plato's Dialogues and The Republic, then go with Aristotle (Poetics and Rhetoric are solid entry points).

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 17 08:48:58 2021 No.17569303 >I’m partway through marathoning this you already fucked up

Brainlet Wed Feb 17 08:51:53 2021 No.17569324
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Why are you marathoning it? Also, if you're truly marathoning, why are you stopping to post about it on a Taiwanese DIY electronics forum? Read the book slowly and take notes. Philosophy is meant to be absorbed and reflected upon, not chugged like a cheap beer. You'll get out what you put in.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 17 08:54:25 2021 No.17569337 It was just coping for the horrible times he lived in and for his disfunctional family

Anonymous Wed Feb 17 08:55:48 2021 No.17569343

>I’m partway through marathoning this
again, i'm seriously indignant that you decided to read it like this. you're supposed to read it in bits and digest. what you're doing is gorging on it; you will incorporate nothing, and, what's worse, you will believe you have any understanding of it

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 17 08:59:28 2021 No.17569369 >>17569343 Fuck off reddit

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 17 08:59:42 2021 No.17569371 >>17569303 >>17569324 >>17569343 I’m marathoning it in memespeak i.e. over the course of days

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 17 09:01:30 2021 No.17569381 >>17569371 keep it on the back burner and open it every now and then. it shouldn't be the primary book you're reading at any given time.

Anonymous Wed Feb 17 09:08:09 2021 No.17569420
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>>17569267
For contemporary philosophy Transparency of Evil by Baudrillard
For the Greeks, Plato’s dialogues
For something in between, Descartes meditations
>t. professor who’s friends/acquaintance ask for philosophy starter books

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 17 09:48:32 2021 No.17569709 Read Plato's five dialogues. (Euthyphro, apology, crito, meno, phaedo)

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 17 10:31:39 2021 No.17569983 Stoicisim is great for avoiding suffering but it has nothing to offer in terms of achieving happiness

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 17 13:02:25 2021 No.17571065 >>17569267 >marathoning this It's like 10 pages long

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 17 13:02:57 2021 No.17571070 >translation

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