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[Anonymous No.8779145]

What are the greatest philosophical texts ever written? I'm reading this right now, feel like Ive been endowed with mad knowledge. By philosophical texts I mean either dry expository text like pic related or philosophy presented as a story (like Thus Spoke Zarathustra or The Stranger)

[Anonymous No.8779333]

>>8779145
Jesus I hate that book so much. What a nightmare for ethics.

Favorites:
Birth of Tragedy
World as Will and Representation
Interpretation of Dreams
Laocoon
Herder's Treatise on the Origin of Language
Spinoza's Ethics
Confessions
Fear and Trembling
God's Zeal
Varieties of Religious Experience
Benjamin's Essays
Lukacs's Theory of the Novel
Gargantua and Pantagruel

[Anonymous No.8779335]

Phenomenology of Spirit

[Anonymous No.8779392]

>>8779335
I can only take so much of this before growing weary.

c.g. Stein's Objects

[Anonymous No.8779458]

>>8779333
>What a nightmare for ethics.
>implying this a bad thing
Whats wrong with testing the foundation of ethics? It only strengthens it in the end. It did lead to a lot of bad philosophies (social constructionism and post modernism), but thats exactly what Nietzsche was trying to avoid. He completely changed philosophy forever, for better and worse

[Anonymous No.8779477]

>>8779458
Not saying it's a bad thing at all; I just didn't like it.

I take a lot of classes in ethics/value theory and these pseudo-Neitzcheans are obnoxious.

[Anonymous No.8779497]

>>8779392
Huh?

[Anonymous No.8779498]

>>8779333
>Gargantua and Pantagruel
i have this book but kinda afraid that i will not understand references. What are prerequisite philosophical readings?

[Anonymous No.8779508]

>>8779497
Just an example of something that gets very tiresome after a while. I mean, the entire section on Spirit in The Phenomenology is really intriguing initially, like Gertrude Stein's Objects, but its repetitive nature makes it insufferable after a bit.

Perhaps I just don't like his writing.

>>8779498
You'll be fine if you just pick up an edition with footnotes. Most of the references aren't philosophical but rather historical

[Anonymous No.8779521]

Sein und Zeit

[Anonymous No.8779528]

>>8779508
Oh I see, yes it's very convoluted sometimes. His Logic is much clearer.

[Anonymous No.8779539]

>>8779392
what is c.g.?

[Anonymous No.8779566]

>>8779539
It's just a way of pointing to something else. T. S. Elliot likes to use it, so does my old modernism professor.

It's basically a lazy, ambiguous way of directing attention to something similar or a source.

[Anonymous No.8779705]

>>8779566
but what does it stand for?, I googled it and it doesn't exist

sure you don't mean cf.?

[Anonymous No.8779893]

>>8779705
that's exactly what i mean, i'm just an idiot.

Yeesh. Let's let this thread fade into obscurity now

[Anonymous No.8780990]

Critique of Cynical Reason

[Anonymous No.8781007]

continental fags get out

[Anonymous No.8781104]

>>8780990
holy shit i never thought i'd see someone else
post this

[Mr hacker No.8781113]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSY18zIHQAU

[Anonymous No.8782114]

>>8779477
Cuck boi

[Anonymous No.8782186]

>>8780990
>>8781104

Thank god I'm not the only person on the internet who has read Sloterdijk

[Anonymous No.8783287]

>>8782186
>Slaughter-dick