What previous knowledge should I have to begin reading Julius

>>3293007
You could start here
>http://www.staff.uni-giessen.de/~gk1415/hinduism.htm

>>3293007
If you going to read Ride the Tiger, you'd probably do well to at least read some Nietzsche and skim the Satre wikipedia.

For all other books you'd need basic mythology(eastern and european)

>>3293007

Heraclitus
Plato
Aristotle
Aquinas
The classics of Tantra
Pāli Canon
Kant
Joseph de Maistre
Nietzsche
Georges Sorel
Heidegger
René Guénon

>>3293007
descartes stated the problem but did not provide the solution, as there is no solution. it is a contradiction. It can not be rationalized. It can only be overcome by the irrational. That is why all philosophy after descartes became increasingly degenerate, century by century until we are left with modern deconstructionist nihlism. The last constructive philosophial movement was medieval scholasticism. That is where you have to start, but you will never resolve the mind/body, object/subject contradiction. It cannot be solved rationally. It can only be managed. Men have tried since the beginning of time, it is called theology. You have to accept a non-material source as a given and then expand your philosophy from that

read Schopenhauer, Heidegger and Adolf Hitler instead

I'm wondering, was this anti-materialist man willing to renounce his wealth?