Favorite Philosophy Books

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1. Aristotle- On Metaphysics

2. Lao Zi- Tao Te Ching

3. Boethius- The Consolation of Philosophy

4. Friedrich Nietzsche- On the Genealogy of Morals

5. Arthur Schopenhauer- The World as Will and Representation
 
On Metaphysics is your favourite philosophy book?

...really? :icon_twis I'm going to need some explanation here lol. 4 and 5 are good choices, pondering my own list...
 
HillRaiser said:
On Metaphysics is your favourite philosophy book?

...really? :icon_twis I'm going to need some explanation here lol. 4 and 5 are good choices, pondering my own list...
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Aristotle's synthesis of science and philosophy was unmatched at the time. He gets a lot of unwarranted hate among modern thought patterns. People discredit ancient philosophy today without so much of a blink of an eye.

Its just the result of a decadent modern culture we are currently entrenched in.
 
L/L Research & Ra- The Law of One

Pretty much my go to, although the I-Ching is quite good as well.
 
In order:

On The History Of Modern Philosophy
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

Being And Time
Martin Heidegger

Twilight of The Idols
Friedrich Nietzsche

Letters on Humanism
Martin Heidegger

Philosophy and The Mirror of Nature
Richard Rorty
 
7437 said:
I like The Prince
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me too.
 
Twilight/Genealogy/Beyond Good and Evil/Antichrist are best of best

Philosophical Investigations -Wittgenstein

Protagoras -Plato

Order of Things/Madness and Civilization/History of Sexuality -Foucault

Gift of Death -Derrida

Question Concerning Technology -Heidegger

Principia Ethica -GE Moore
 
As A Man Thinketh, by James Allen, is awesome for a short read on the power of thought.

Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armoury of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself; he also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace. By the right choice and true application of thought, man ascends to the Divine Perfection; by the abuse and wrong application of thought, he descends below the level of the beast. Between these two extremes are all the grades of character, and man is their maker and master.
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More toward politics, but:

1. Leo Strauss - Natural Right and History

2. Aristotle - The Politics

3. Plato - The Republic

4. Carl Schmitt - Concept of the Political

5. Leo Strauss - On Tyranny

And since he'll get a lot of mentions, my favorite by Nietzsche is Twilight of the Idols.
 
loyalyolayal said:
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me too.
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Had to read this in HS, and it's fucking awesome. So good that as I neared the end, I slowed down to only reading one page a night, to keep it going.

Don't honestly remember a lot about it, except for how much I liked it. I remember thinking it was simple enough that a child could enjoy it, and profound enough that it'll make adults think.
 
Oh ya, forgot about this.

1. Plato - Apology
2. Camus - The Stranger
3. J.S. Mill - On Liberty
4. Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (come at me hardcores)
5. David Hume - Treatise on Human Nature

Pretty ethnocentric. Would definitely like to fix that.
 
I like everything. Some I enjoy:
-Consolation of Philosophy, Boethius (one of the first books I read in college)
-How we think, Dewey
-Way to Wisdom, Jaspers
-Mind and cosmos, Nagel
-the Gay science, Nietzsche
-God, freedom, and evil, Plantinga
-Practical Ethics, Singer
-the case for animal rights, regan
 
Simulacra and Simulation - Jean Baudrillard

Anarchy, State, and Utopia - Robert Nozick

Critique of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant
 
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