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...
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.
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
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
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.
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
