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anybody knows what would be the german equivalent?

>>9666691
No reason for you not to be reading books in English.

>>9666691
as a native german speaker ive had no problems with this book

>>9666431
Get better leadership.

Turn off the computer and go outside you fucking spastic.

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clean your room

>>9666390
paradise lost

>>9666390
Simulation hypothesis

>>9666390
Teatro Grottesco and I Have A Special Plan For This World

>>9666344
Depends. Paperback normal size around 50

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3 to 5

>>9666347
Sir, can you tell me how you became so fast?

Magneto and Xavier like it.

>>9666320
fucking fantastic and I hate genre fantasy shit. makes Lord of the rings look gay as fuck. such a funny book. have you met king pellinore yet?

Anyone know good versions of the Merlin (et al) tales? I've only read Merlin oder das Wüsteland translated in english - which is fantastic but only exists as a publication in german - and have been left wanting to learn more of the variations of the myths.

http://www.iep.utm.edu/wittmath/

>>9666247
thanks - whats your take? matter of opinion?

>>9666259
It's a language game, one of our best.

You should also look up Gödel.

>>9666214
Not much really. Ethica is a monster but don't read it like a normal book. Spinoza is complex, it's all about absolute determinism and what can we do/know in such an absolute context. Don't give up on him yet, he's underrated as fuck and will open up all the philosophical keys.

Few words of advice, try to google "spinoza and [your favourite philosopher]", this ought to clear things up a bit. Don't worry much about the ontology at first but once you kinda get his "point", get back to it.

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>>9666214
>Wanting to read anything by a jew

>>9666222
Yeah, I'm most of the way through the Ethics and I'm sure I get the gist, but I'm also sure I will need to return to it with a much better grasp of the scholastics in order to follow the deductions in detail eventually.
I'm just wondering, what's the best path to take from Aristotle to Spinoza?

>>9666134
4+5+1=10

>>9666178

4x5x1=20

>>9666395
>>9666178
4!+5!+1! = 145
coincidence? i think not.

Accursed Kings. Nothing still compares to this very day.

>>9666120
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search_of_Lost_Time

The White Company and Ser Nigel by Arthur Conan Doyle.
The Brother Cadfael mysteries by Ellis Peters.
The Alchemists Apprentice,the Alchemists Pursuit, and the Alchemists Code by Dave Duncan.
The Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell.
The Hangman's Daughter series by Oliver Potzsch.
The Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee by Robert Van Gulik.

Enough to start with?

There should be a 20 x 20 thread

>Is it Kafkaesque?

I don't know, but my diary definitely is

no touching the meat m'am

>>9666055
No. Everything is pretty fucking consistent in Dickens

It's just a way for men to justify their own opinions by encapsulating them in serious-sounding jargon and gaining "legitimacy" by pursuing academic positions and publication.

I'd say it will always serve as battleground of competing social philosophies and worldviews, which structure how you conceive of yourself as an individual and how you relate to society. This certainly doesn't go away because of scientific progress, that's a very silly notion. You can either import a simplified worldview offered to you from some cultural source, or you can seriously consider it in the form of an ongoing 2600+ year old dialogue that examines all the enduring aspect of human thought. In one way or another, every ideology relates back to the common tradition of philosophy.

>>9666032
Illiterate cretin detected
>>9666019
Naive assumption
>>9666042
This is the basic premise. Nobody's telling you to read philosophy OP (It's quite the opposite nowadays), but if you have serious questions about things science can't directly answer then the considerations of some of the best thinkers in human history ought to have some merit. It's simple. You either research the issues addressed throughout time or keep posting low-grade memes, masturbating over self and edge closer and closer to becoming neurotic in a nihilistic frenzy.

>>9665963
Thomas Mann

>>9665963
Thomas metzinger

Thomas Pynchon

Herodotus' history is around 1600 pages long.

War & Peace
Anna Kerenina
Don Quixote
The Brothers Karamazov (don't be diving into this without having experienced Dostoevsky's chronology of works before it - try Crime & Punishment, Notes from Underground and The Idiot - the Idiot is 700+ pages but the other two are not, although altogether and included with Brothers Karamazov you'd be reaching a heck of a page count, my man)
The Border Trilogy
Lonesome Dove
Les Miserables (I'm honestly considering reading this for Summer and because I have plans to see the stage show in London before the year is out)
Knausgaard's My Struggle (6 volume semi-autobiographical novel)
In Search of Lost Time (7 volume novel from Proust)

And just for funsies, if you're interested in graphic novels at all, the original 6 volume manga of Akira is wonderful and offers so much more than the film (although the film is a genuine masterpiece of animation). Junji Ito's Tomie, Gyo and Uzumaki are also available in single volume tomes which are around 600-800 pages each. If you like disturbing, grotesque body-horror and modern Japanese takes on Eldritch beasts, it's a treat.

>>9666003
Also this guy is spot on, Herodotus is great.

>>9665806
Heck, at this point just read it in Latin, what do you have to lose.

>>9665806
>>9665832
>implicando che io sappia il latino

>>9665806
CEI 2008.

If you are a Catholic you can just go CEI 2008 and ignore the rest of this post.

Apart from the fact that you can read the whole thing with introduction and notes on bibbiaedu.it, it's also very, very cheap in print.

I have nothing against Protestant translations in principle, for example Diodati's was a 17th Century masterpiece, but you and I do not speak 17th century Italian.

The thing is that the contemporary standard protestant translation, Nuova Riveduta 2006, has perfectly indentical verses of the synoptic Gospels (I mean it in the most literal sense, Greek word for word) translated in different ways.

That is because chapters of the Bible would be translated by different scholars not talking to one another.

Heck, Giovanni Diodati didn't do this crap.

The CEI 2008 is super-harmonized and simply had the best staff available.