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7465298 No.7465298 [Reply] [Original]

What are some essential philosophy books? It doesn't matter what timeframe

>> No.7465308

>>7465298
>It doesn't matter what timeframe
not true. the "timeframe," as you so inelegantly put it, matters a great deal. indeed, it all depends on just where you begin. that is to say, with whom you begin.

>> No.7465341

>>7465308
all the major ones

>> No.7465346

>>7465298
>tfw no trebuchet
I did not even know I wanted this

>> No.7465391

>>7465308
>>7465341
and i really was just saying "it doesnt matter from which timeframe the book you recommend is from as i am interested in anything", but im sure you knew that and wanted to try and sound like a smart arse

>> No.7465395

>>7465391
and i really was just saying that it truly makes all difference with whom you begin. whom, as it were, you start with.

>> No.7465401

>>7465308
>being this much of a pretentious cunt while not even providing any input

>> No.7465407

Yung Chu's Garden of Pleasure

>> No.7465412

>>7465395
>it truly makes all difference with whom you begin

why?

and stop with the lengthy verbiage, it just makes you look pretentious. give some ideas on where to start or gtfo

>> No.7465423

The Story of Philosophy - Bryan Maggee

>> No.7465427

>>7465412
why, it's not pretentious in the least to emphasize and emphasize again the issue here of utmost consequence: the immeasurable, incalculable importance of wisely deciding just whom you start with. of starting with the right people, if you will.

>> No.7465445

Plotinus - The Enneads

>> No.7465450
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7465450

>>7465407
>mfw as I'm reading right now

>> No.7465482

>>7465427
lol

>> No.7465488

>>7465298
It's /lit/, you know with which nation's output you should start. Start with the Greeks.