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>>8270179

Yeah, Iago. To a certain extent Ulysses from Troilus and Cressida as well.

>>8270179
I thought the leader kid in the group of young boys from The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea was pretty bad, actually. He persuades his friends to kill a kitten and to kill the sailor from what I remember, all the while expressing no sense of remorse.

>>8270179
Probably not, but I'd like to say fuck john claggart

Fuck you I worked for those respects

>>8270132
same desu senpai, what sort of work did you do?

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>>8270132

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>>8270065
define great philosopher

>>8270065
Clearly you haven't read my stuff

>>8270065
>Is that all there really is to it?

Kind of. Better get used to it or start planning to become a hermit.

>It's fun.

The end.

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Forgot to say i already read nietsche.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegalism

Lordship and Bondsman passage is one of my favorites in philosophy

'Moral Dissemblance' is a btfo for the ages.

I like the part where he dies from cholera

1. Idk honestly, the side characters were pretty shit, I guess I always liked the werewolf professor and malfoy

2. London because of the lack of pakis at the time

3. Masturbating to hermione

>>8269833
1. Bellatrix. I fapped to her. And Fleur, i fapped to her as well.

2. Prefects bathroom. its co-ed so i could fuck Fleur during fourth year there.

3. I used to masturbate a lot while reading. Lots of memories.

Snape, sorry.

The Quidditch tournament.

When Harry tears Malfoy open I guess. I don't think back to much of it very fondly and the only thing I remember reading over several times is the flashback to Snape getting bullied.

please respond ;_;

>>8269876
Any book will do, y'know. As long as it entertains you... Just pick up anything that you find interesting but isn't too heavy to read. If you are travelling, you'll only read while resting so keep that in mind.

European romantics feature a whole bunch of dicking around in the countryside

Goethe's Wilhelm Meister (both, IIRC)
Le Grand Meaulnes
Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts
etc.

He's incomprehensible.

>>8269728
>but probably a closeted Christian as well

So is Zizek. So is Agamben.

>>8270466
Agamben I can believe.

>skipping Epicurus, Cicero, Lucretius, Pseudo-Dionysus the Areopagite, Plotinus, Porphyry

Tbqh tho kid you could skip most. For a basic foundation, read a bit of Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, and Kant (or read Schopenhauer, he teaches Kant decently)

>>8269705
yeah i had epicurus/lucretius and epictetus/aurelius, but really trying to winnow this down. you're saying bare bones could look like this?
>plato
>aristotle
>descartes
>hume
>kant/schopenhauer

Sorta, it's not bad

If I were you, I'd read Machiavelli before the other Early Moderns (because self-contained), add Bacon before Descartes, move Hobbes to before Descartes, move Hume to just after Descartes, and I would consider moving Berkeley AFTER Hume because it's easier to read representationalists before an Idealist and then the phenomenalist Kant. Maybe add Thomas Reid before Kant. Also Mill's epistemology goes after the Idealists, not before.

You're going to be reading a lot of stuff in a vacuum, the way you're going, which will make it difficult. Kant does depart from Hume, but he also departs from a lot of other stuff that he just assumes is implicit in dealing with empiricist thought, e.g. Similar problem for Aquinas. You can either read a lot more authors to flesh things out, or just make sure you read a lot of secondary literature that contextualises each author.

Also the development of Western thought is a lot less linear in general, so you might be surprised at the necessity or temptation for detours.

>>8269705
Of those, I think only Plotinus is really seriously necessary, and to be honest no one fucking reads Plotinus, because the Enneads are a nightmare. They just read descriptions of his main ideas

Congratulations, you finally get it.

http://www.accesstoinsight.org

>>8269639
>Buddhism
What?

>>8269639
>Eastern memes
Nope.
Eastern phil is decisional as fuck, more than Western phil

>>8269475
>reflect modern life
in what way? in a literal one where people talk about current problems and use all kinds of gadgets and online services, etc.? or something that describes the weird atmosphere we live in?

>>8269517
Not Opie, but does such literature exist that isn't YA or awful?

>>8269468
wow i don't have a recommendation but i'm enjoying the album. thanks for showing me something new today friend :)

>>8270103
you're welcome.

>>8269468
Winesburg, Ohio

I'm bored by the process of reading but I love the exploration of stories and ideas and the playing with language. I'm STEM by trade and I've never been a very good reader but I do love it, reading Moby Dick has been a highlight of my adult life.

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>>8269359
Honestly, reading is kind of a chore for me sometimes, I don't think that's bad. I exclusively read philosophical texts though. I enjoy the content, but you can't expect every second to be entertaining, but when you reach a particular pretty passage or something that makes it all click for you, it's all worth it.

I can't be bored because I have strong will like the Green Lantern.

>>8269358
as opposed to positivity, numbnuts. read Singer and Kaufmann.

>>8269381
Honestly dude, every time I try to read anything in philosophy and ask any question about it I get told I need to read three other philosophers before I can read whichever one I'm interested in. Like, at some point I feel like I just have to choose someone.

>>8269385
That's why you start with the Greeks, dummy.

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>he owns a copy of Infinite jest

>>8269352
Do you think DFW owns a copy of IJ in H*ll?

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