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who is your #1 fav philosopher

who is your #1 fav novelist/poet/writer of ficton

also since it's ur fav what's the best place to start with each for those who aren't familiar

most patrician dude in the thread gets an extremely rare pepe pic :^)

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schopenhauer and melville

>> No.6371057

>>6371052
awesome taste man
i read somewhere that melville read schopenhauer which is pretty cool
have a terrific day friend, thanks for coming to my thread

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>philosopher
Jean-Paul "I can't see shit" Sartre

Start With: read his plays and his fiction first., get a feel for his philosophy before you tackle his ACTUAL philosophy lol. I recommend Altona, Men Without Shadows, and La Nausee (his works are so much more enjoyable if you can read French, but they've all been translated beautifully as well)

>novelist/poet/writer of fiction
Virginia "Purplest of Proses" Woolf

Start with: To The Lighthouse. One of her most beautiful works, beautiful imagery and beautiful observations about life and people, and how precious both are.

>> No.6371067

Spinoza - Tzara
I await reception of the pepe
at your earliest convenience

>> No.6371081

>>6371061
cool taste dude imagine how cool it would have been to be sartre sitting at tables smoking cigarettes with pretty ladies at your table

>>6371067
haha good luck +1 for spinoza

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>who is your #1 fav philosopher

IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER:

— AYN RAND.

— HERAKLITUS.

— JOSÉ VASCONCELOS.

— GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL.

>who is your #1 fav novelist/poet/writer of ficton

IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER:

— AYN RAND.

— DAVID FOSTER WALLACE.

— JEROME DAVID SALINGER.

>> No.6371111

>>6371096
SWEET TASTE WHAT DO YOU THINK OF HAVE ONE ON ME

>> No.6371119

i'm thinking about deleting the thread dudes there's already a top 5 fav one on the front page :(

>> No.6371124

>>6371111
Nice get broseph

>> No.6371133

>>6371111
Also put your trip back on tripfag

>> No.6371175

>>6371081
honestly, it sounds kind of lame but I'd give a lot just to spend a night with Sartre.
Talkin' about what it means to be a man
smoking pipes
getting bitches
drinking wine
when his little feet get tired i'd give him a piggy back ride home
good times :,)

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Philosopher: William Morris (because fuck all people who actually describe themselves as philosophers).
Novelist: Shirley Jackson
Poet: T.S. Eliot

>> No.6373212 [DELETED] 

Hegel

>> No.6373221

philosopher: Kierkegaard

novelist: Dostoyevsky

poet: Słowacki

>> No.6373301

Hegel is #1

>> No.6373476

Hume and Swift

>> No.6373482

>>6371024

Augustine

Sienkiewicz

>> No.6373504

Hegel

>> No.6373522

John Rawls

Dostoevsky, start with Notes, it's short so you get a feel for whether the other books are worth your time. I can't see how anyone would hate Brothers Karamazov though.

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philosopher: Nietzsche
Fiction: DFW
Poet: Philip Larkin

>> No.6373532

aquinas and nabokov

>> No.6373542

>>6373532

>aquinas and nabokov

in the running for most conflicted person on this board right now

>> No.6373543

>>6371024
>Philosopher
Robert C. Solomon.

>Novelist
Probably Stephen King. He's entertaining. Or that guy who wrote Slapstick.

>> No.6373555

Wittgenstein and Kafka

was the OP trolling with his saccharine persona? or are there really such amicable fellows on 4chan??

i feel violated, in any case

>> No.6373577

william lane craig and brett easton ellis

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personal favs not as an absolute objective, but the ones i've found myself returning to the most often.

philosopher: parmenides
not that much to read, just pick up a presocratics textbook and think long and hard about his fragments

author: anton tchekov
a keen participation in his short stories is imperative to having a true feel for his plays, though it is through the latter that he is most widely known. for the shorts, 'the steppe'. 'the duel', the trio ('man in a case', 'gooseberries', 'about love'), 'ivanov', and 'the lady with the dog' are those which immediately come to mind as being of particular interest, but pick up just about any collection and if you're thoughtful towards it you won't regret it.

>> No.6373662

Derrida

Pynchon

feels uneducated man

>> No.6373721

Richard Rorty

Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle is good intro but his style can be pretty different between earlier and later books