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Ask yourself:

1. Do you want to teach?

2. Do you want your life to revolve around work?

3. Do you have 5-10 years of your life to give to this?

4. Are you ok with not finding a job despite that 5-10 years?

If you want to teach it's fun, good experience, and (in a good program) a nice routine to get into and avoid all that "what am I doing with my life" post-undergrad stuff. Since you're interested in English though you will really need to specialize and have a decent if broad idea of what you'd like to work on.

>>9778094
Don't do it. There were only three openings in the country when one of my professors was looking for a job.

Hope to hear more about this. Graduate studies threads always seem to help me out.

>>9777973
No you are just retarded

>>9777973
this actually made my laugh, thanks OP

ur still a faggot tho

>>9777973
William of ockham is spinning in his grave.

>not /lit/
anyway according to /pol/ he lost, according to harris' fans he won and scott adams is just a troll. who is the impartial judge that can tell me truth? as i won't go through all that fucking podcast

>>9777956
what's the tl;dr of the podcast? I don't have two hours for Sam Harris

>>9777981
the tl'dr of all sam harris podcasts is that he is a genius and others either get it or don't

I only watched the movie, can I talk about the book? I know that Satantango adaptation is very loyal to the original but don't know about this one...

>>9777893
Both are pretty loyal to the respective originals. This one misses the different viewpoints though. Book was much better in the end, even though I'm a huge fan of Tarr as well.

>>9777901
>>9777893

Why can't I find a torrent anywhere for the movie of Melancholy of Resistance? It seems really difficult to find but I loved Bela Tarr's Satantango.

>>9777836
Because empirically registering IQ is a flawed and subjective endeavor, and it is difficult to establish a direct causal relation between genetics and objective IQ results (without social phenomena being the major correlated factors.

And this doesn't even deal with the debate on whether IQ truly represents a general intelligence or not. The second time I take a test I always score at least 20 to 30 points more. Did I become 25% more intelligent in a mere 5 minutes?

>>9777851
>is asked why is so scientifically illiterate
>responds by being scientifically illiterate

What is psychometrics?

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>>9777836
Fuck off, pleb. You're just as plebby as the niggers you despise.

>>9777742
i never read it but i really like the title and invoke the phrase frequently

Almost every morning, I lose my keys and need a good fifteen minutes to find them, and I always think, "This is just like Frankl's book, Man's Search for Keys". It's a real KEYS HOLOCAUST in my apartment sometimes.

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>>9777742

Heeb attempts to rip off Camus and Kierkegaard by ramming hours and hours of holocaust imagery down your throat

he also has a fundamental misunderstanding of the word λόγος

read anyone else

you can't rebuff any assertion with just 'well, that may not be the case'

>>9777741
well, that may not be the case

how can the case be if the not of it is always protruding???

You're starting with the Greeks in reverse.

It should be; Homer > Socrates > SUMERIANS > Plato > Aristotle

No wonder you're confusing yourself.

Aristotle is boring and obvious. If you want understand what the Greeks thought, go ahead but it's kind of a waste of time. He was the first analytic philosopher, how lame.

>>9777698
Do you know what reverse means?

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GRRM

>>9777644
Thomas Aquinas

>>9777644
Gilbert Chest-a-ton

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Don't bother with charts, or Hamilton.

In order: Bulfinch Mythology or Graves The Greek Myths. I prefer Graves. Homer. Apollonius Rhodius. Herodotus, Thucydides. Xenophon. Pindar. Epictetus. Heraclitus. Plato. Plotinus. Virgil. Livy. Ovid.

>>9777613
Philosophy
PreSocratics->Plato->Aristotle->Hellenic Stoics and Neoplatonists if you want

History
Herodotus Histories, Thuclydides Peloponesian war, Plutarchs Lives

Just google a better chart, this one has a lot of unessecary stuff, theres an in depth lit philosophy one.

>>9777646
>>9777656
Thanks a lot!

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>>9777579
>normal people scare me ;)
>from my perspective, YOU'RE the insane one

>>9777607
that cold intj stare

>>9777579
IMO it's a good read once you get used to his writing style. You should have at very least a basic understanding of his philosophical and anthropological predecessors to know where he's coming from and to be able to understand the form of study he's showcasing - Nietzsche, Freud, and Marx especially of course but it also helps to have read Heidegger, Saussure, Weber, and others. However even if you've just dabbled in these, you should be fine. This book was taught to first years first semester at my university.
Keep in mind that the book is a study on the history of medical treatment of insanity and that Foucault seeks to show how the modern conception of madness evolved, not necessarily set forward some kind of philosophical treatise.
It's an interesting and rewarding book really. He uses such a wide variety of source material and approaches his topics from different directions and you'll come out with an appreciation for his method at the very least. Enjoy OP

>>9777561

Camino Island

Save 100% and don't buy any cancer books.

Why would you shop at B&N in the first place

Group reading when?

I just want ordered a copy on amazon. Haven't read it yet though.

I'm interested in what he has to say about his life, but I can't stand him when he talks so I won't read this. Also he hasn't been relevant since February.

>>9777382
depends of what is 'falling apart'. maybe if you specify and post pictures of what is fucked (spine, loose pages, etc) someone may be able to help. also there are stores that fix books.

>>9777382
There are probably places where you can get it rebound online

try to keep those pesky meth heads out of your house

fucking degenerates

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I know right?

What the; fuck.

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>>9777338
When you don't know whether to use a comma or period and you leave it to the editor to cross one out as he sees fit.