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Hello /lit/, I come to you with some questions regarding philosophy.
My main interesting on the subject is existentialism. What it means to be alive and exist, the meaning of life, what is existence, etc. I know I should read Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Sartre, because they deal with these questions.
Now, I'm not sure if I should just jump in, reading Kierkegaard first, or if I should meme myself and read the greeks. Plato's and Aristotele's philosophy don't interest me very much, from what I've read about them. And if I go down that path, I feel like I'll be spending years and years reading several philosophers that I just don't feel interested at all, just so I can have a philosophy knowledge to read the ones I actually want to. So:
Should I just skip everything, and read Kierkegaard? I've read a History of Philosophy book, which allowed me to understand at least the basics of several philosophers. I know a little about Hegel, Kant, etc.
Or should I at least give Plato and Aristotele a try? I do feel like they are important, otherwise they wouldn't be taught in universites 2000 years later. The thing is that I don't feel like reading several philosophers just to get where I want to. Would Aristoteles and Plato suffice? Are there other philosophers that greatly influenced the way existentialists think? Thanks in advance.
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>>9012207
START WITH THE GREEKS
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>>9012207
Start with whoever you want. If you don't understand what they are saying just look it up or something.
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>>9012210
START WITH THE GREEKS
if dubs ill make a meme image
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>>9012311
Get on with it.
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>>9012311
Damn son, congratulations.
Are there any books that attempt to summarize Existentialist thoughts better than a wider, History of Philosophy book? Something that deals with the existentialist themes Sartre, Kierkegaard, Nietszche, etc questioned, like the absurd. Guess what I'm saying is, is there a book called "Existentialism", to summarize this philosophy?
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>>9012324
Stanford encyclopedia of Philosophy always helps me with catching up on stuff.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/existentialism/
Also wikipedia is useful for finding more literature on the subject with "further reading" on the bottom.
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Start with Hegel
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>>9012324
The Myth of Sisyphus sounds like what you are looking for. It's not a summary of the philosophers you are naming but while developing his ideas he talks about Nietszche and specially Kierkegaard, not so much about Sartre. If you are interested in the absurd this is a really good book and it's not hard to read.
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>>9012358
>while developing his ideas
by "his" ideas I mean Camus
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