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Hello /Lit/
I will be a freshman in a month at Washington and Lee University in Virginia. I would like to expand my mind in order to BE better than my peers. I have started reading many Philosophical / Enlightenment / Revolutionary authors.
I have read:
Candide / Voltaire
The Misanthrope / Moliere
Social Contract / Rousseau
The Republic / Plato
Nicomachean Ethics / Aristotle
Treatises on Government / Locke
Any suggestions on where I should look to next?
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>>8240562
If you approach the acquisition of knowledge as a means to an end, you are on the wrong path.
That being said, I would maybe approach the rationalist / empiricist dichotomy in epistemology. Read Descartes' Meditations and Locke+Hume's essays concerning human understanding. The logical step from here is Kant.
If you are interested in pol. phil. and maybe particularly the social contract idea (from reading Rousseau), maybe go back and look at Hobbes' Leviathan.
Revolutionary authors? Proudhon, maybe.
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