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who the fuck cares. just pick yourself. why would you make such a stupid thread

moby-dick of course
>but that's so long that's not what i asked for
fucking read it anyway. the chapters are all nice and short anyway

>>7897124
ficciones

What have you been reading? Philosophy often assumes familiarity with prior works, so you should probably start with the Greeks.

>>7897140
I've been reading Plato and Nietzche

>>7897148
Familiarize yourself with the presocratics, then return to Plato. Nietzsche comes later.

sinners in the hands of an angry god
Dante's Inferno

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Nothing that you can't learn from google searches and wikipedia

Бecы (demons/devils/the possessed) by Dostoevsky

to sage a thread, do you post sage in "name" or option"?

Why can't you use correct grammar?

>>7897127
I don't know, sorry.

>>7897142
English isn't my primary language and I'm not a philistine to make myself study its grammar. I rather stick with neolatin languages if you know what I mean. :)

>>7897039

>For Sale: Loveseat, unused. (no gf)

For sale: baby shoes, worn by our now dead baby.

For sale: Talent, never discerned.

>>7896986
youre more preschool, op

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I am already post-nietzsche

which doge is that

>>7896936

>read The Republic
>its a dictatorship

wow what a hack

>>7896963
>not realizing that the point is that the ideal benevolent dictatorship of the philosophers is impossible and therefore the philosopher should seek to exist outside of earthly society in the realm of ideas
W E W
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W

>>7896936
It was pretty happy desu senpai. Socrates didn't fear death because of the DOCTRINE OF RECOLLECTION

Philosophy is not a straight path, what kind of philosophy interests you, get a better understanding of the world? Prehaps some political theory to get more informed on your own ideals or what?

I'm interested by eastern philosophy and also by the philosophy from the enlightenment age.Political theory also interests me but not to a large range as the ones above

>>7896891
Read Alan Bloom's translation of Plato's Republic. Trust me, go get it from your library right now and start reading.

>>7896881

Why don't you read it and find out for yourself.

>>7896881
BECAUSE IT IS BY THE ONLY MYTH MAKING IMAGINATION IN AMERICAN HISTORY HERMAN "THE HERM"
MELVILLE

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>>7896889
Feel the Herm!

>>7896867
what is your goal exactly? why concerned about the timeline?

You're a dilettante. You don't have an outstanding interest in any subject, but to associate yourself with them produces in you the feeling that you're gaining the benefits of pursuing them.

>>7896877

To explore my interest in these subjects, hopefully gaining an understanding and insight that surpasses my currently lacklustre grasp of each.

No, he's a genius. Haven't read a single word by him, but he's the finest author alive.

I bought The Tunnel when it was published. 20 years later I still live at home and haven't finished it yet.

>>7896836
He is the greatest American writer to ever live--Gaddis, McElroy, and Hawkes following not too far behind--and, regardless of what a few dummies on /lit/ think, he will be remembered for as long as literature is alive.

Yes
Everyone has only one chance at existence, you have a responsibility not to make things worse for others

No. I don't have friends.

>>7896823
>Sam Harris
>Was he right?

Having to ask...


Hahaha, good one, anon.

>>7896762
I'm writer.

>start eating
>1 min later
>only 700 burgers consumed

>>7896762
>start shitting
>1 hour later
>only 7 DFWs in the toilet

>>7896645

Non-rainbow sentence:

I was glad of it: I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight, with nipped fingers and toes, and a heart saddened by the chidings of Bessie, the nurse, and humbled by the consciousness of my physical inferiority to Eliza, John, and Georgiana Reed.

>>7896645

"chidings" is a gerund. This sentence is really several clauses connected by punctuation, all of which embellish the singular sentence of "I was glad of it."

I was glad of it, (for) I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons (for) dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight, with nipped fingers and toes, and a heart saddened by the chidings of Bessie, the nurse, and humbled by the consciousness of my physical inferiority to Eliza, John and Georgina Reed.

The subject is "I." It's more useful to diagram grammatical role than part of speech. So in this case, instead of simply saying "glad of it" is an adjective followed by a preposition followed by a pronoun, it is better to say "I (subject) was glad (since was is the verb to be, this phrase "was glad" is called a "predicate adjective over the subject.") of it (you could call "it" an indirect object here).

This is a difficult sentence, If you're into diagramming I would start with shorter sentences and focus on the grammatical role rather than the part of speech. You want a good handle on subject, predicate, direct object, indirect object, adverb clauses and gerund/gerundive/verbal noun parts of speech.

>diagramming sentences
You have to be 18 to post on this site.

>>7896573
>giving your hard earned bux to satanic Jew-run tech corp bent on enslaving humanity by the near future

>>7896583
>implying thats not my masterplan

>>7896573
Kindle is absolutely shit with PDFs. Ipad Air is probably the best for PDFs in my experience.

Even if you set your kindles margins to the smallest and crop page numbers, margins and headers and footers, the text is tiny and squished, the rendering takes seconds, and the kindle wont remember zoom options. What has worked for me is using PDFs that were saved from text documents or well OCR'd and save as RTF, then format as necessary using replace functions.

>>7896583
Shit opinion from Kobo shills.

IRL it doesnt matter since Amazon loses money on Kindles and no one who is smart buys digital books anyways.