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>>9111043
>engineers
>Engineering

Lmao not a science, go read harry potter

>>9111260

engineers, depending on the specification, deal heavily in the sciences.

not even trying to STEMflex because im in the arts and sciences.

>>9111260

also, wtf do you think the "e" is in stem?

Shitty advice. Hipsterism is not good with books: some of the best authors are rather well known, and thus a large-ass font for their name might make sense for marketing reasons. Or maybe their name is relatively short, the book's name relatively long, whatever, maybe the reason is purely aesthetic.

I can recall having books like this by at least Poe, Freud, Dostoyevsky, Zizek, Hegel, Kant, Nietzsche, Plato, Aristotle and Homer.

Damn...

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>>9111009
into the trash it goes

a document of repentance

>>9110788
>Depressing

Try Outer Dark. McCarthy is from the Harry Caudill school of Appalachia. Which is also the James Dickey school of Appalachia. Which is to say that they all three were from there, so knew that the sister-fucking, baby-eating pig squealing stereotypes are very real.

Heh, it's life, kiddo.

>>9110691
fucking drop it cunt

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>>9110691
I just finished that book

You must be very lucky to find that from inside your toilet; the only thing I found when sitting on toilet and taking a shit, it was a snake who entered my butthole.

Drumpf is as removed from the concept of Philosopher King as it gets.

>>9110489
>Platon
>voting

That's were you're wrong kiddo.

>>9110501
Sorry, this thread is about Plato, not 'Platon'. You need too learn basic english

Ya, you're in the wrong place. The retard general is around here somewhere though.

>>9110466
This whole board is retard general

There's no way you were seriously recommended that fucking book

You were scammed, nigga

>essential (vaguely in order of reading)
Euthypro
Crito
Apology
Phaedo
Symposium (can be read at any time at all, my absolute favorite)
Protagoras
Gorgias
Phaedrus
Letter Seven
Meno
Republic
Statesman
Timaeus
Lysis
Parmenides
Theaetetus
Philebus
>disregarded
Laches
Sophist
Cratylus
Ion
Charmides
Clitophon
Probably Laws because it's too much of an investment, unless political theory is what you're reading Plato for.

>>9110307
I should add that Letter Seven & Phaedrus should be read in conjunction in you have any interest in the "unwritten doctrine" of Plato.

>>9110307
Thank you. What about the Euthydemus?

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JUST

>>9110192
He's a fuckin schizo who believes in numerology and other shit.

Literally the Bible.

The inevitability of this AI superintelligence seems contingent upon a philosophical materialism, no? In that, life is nothing more than a sufficiently complex and properly configured set of physical and chemical reactions, that theoretically could arise within a human-created machine, rather than the expression or a divinely-sanctione Spirit.

But then again, I guess there's the interpretation that all matter and energy are imbued with the divine spirit, which would allow for both God and an AI superintelligence, with perhaps the latter being God's true creation, with us humans merely an instrument to bring it forth. So you might be fucked either way.

>>9110025
>>>/r/
>>>/t/

>he doesn't libgen

>>9110025
libgen or bookzz

>>9109973
Idk nigga, and I doubt anybody else here does either. Read it and discern for yourself.

Is she cute?

>>9109979
You guys don't read John Hawkes? wtf. yeah she's cute in a nerdy kind of way.

>>9109973
It features things like horses fucking (from the horse's perspective) and castration (also from the horse's perspective). You tell me.

Most everyone has an IQ under 130... so really this should say "If you're a human, you probably have an IQ under 130."

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>tfw so smart that I can anticipate the whole plot

if you haven't, it means you're so braindead your emotions are more attuned to the mundane than to the artistic and transcendental

i pretty much only ever feel anything when reading

>>9109561
>craving 'for'
Oh, my! I used 'for' after the word crave again. Sorry for that.

>>9109575
There's some obscure vocabulary in that book in relation to modern times, but nothing you can't get around with a good ol' dictionary; the narrative itself is not too arduous. There are some misty allusions (for me at least) you may have to refer to the endnotes though.

t. ESL

Not particularly difficult, although the Victorian style isn't the easiest form of the language. You should do fine though.

>>9109400
Mine by Toby Onest

《徐霞客游记》

karl rove noseguard

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>>9109396

Holy... I want more...

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>>9109401
I'm at work so I'll be back in a bit with with the rest. you lads can absorb this for a while.

>>9109233
Oh, i forgot.
I've finished Hunger already.

to live - yu hua

Read his other book, The Setting Sun