Classics for noob

>>9623731
Count of Monte Christo is good NEET wish fulfillment literature.

>>9623731
You asked for it...

>Homer, Illiad
>Homer, Odyssey
>Hesiod, Theogeny
>Virgil, Aeneid
>Euclid, Elements
>Plato, Complete Works - especially, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, and Republic, for starters
>Aristotle, Complete Works - especially, Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, Physics, Metaphysics, and Poetics, for starters
>Apollodorus, Bibliotheca
>Epicurus, Letters
>Aurelius, Meditations
>Epictetus, The Golden Sayings
>Plutarch, Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans - especially volumes I and II.
>Augustine, Confessions
>Aquinas, Summa Theologica
>Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
>Shakespeare, Complete Works - especially Hamlet, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Othello, and the sonnets, for starters
>Montaigne, Essays
>Descarte, Discourse on the Method
>Descarte, Meditations on First Philosophy
>Bacon, Essays
>Bacon, New Atlantis
>Spinoza, Theologico-Political Treatise
>Spinoza, Ethics
>Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
>Kant, Critique of Practical Reason
>Kant, Critique of Judgement
>Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit
>Kierkegaard, Either/Or
>Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death
>Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling
>Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
>Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
>Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
>Whitman, Leaves of Grass - get a first edition replica, it has the prologue
>Freud, On Dreams
>Freud, Psychopathology of Everyday Life
>Freud, A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis
>Jung, Psychological Types
>Jung, Man and His Symbols
>Borges, Labyrinths
>Borges, The Aleph
>Yeats, Complete Works - especially any collections which have The Magi, The Second Coming, Two Songs and a Play, Rosa Alchemica, Ego Dominus Tuus, and Leda and the Swan, for starters
>Eliot, Complete Works
>Whitehead, Introduction to Mathematics
>Whitehead & Russell, Principia Mathematica - keep in mind Kurt Godel later annihilated this
>Russell, Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
>Eliot, Complete Works
>Proust, In Search of Lost Time
>Rand, Atlas Shrugged

Okay, I'm tired of typing. This is a start.

>>9623731
Mika Waltari's The Egyptian.

>>9624027
lmao how did you know I'm finnish

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>>9623981
One of these is not like the others

>>9624027
Tää :D

>>9623981
>no hume
someone's got their dissonance shields up

>>9624917
I imagine you mean Atlas Shrugged.

Perhaps you have to be an American to appreciate her work, but, in spite of its many flaws, there is a wealth of information just as relevant to America's future (and present) success or failure as she believed it to be.

There are many more books worth adding, obviously. I originally intended to do a Western list and an Eastern list.

>>9626095
I haven't read Hume yet. I have two close friends with conflicting opinions of his work, and, since I have no special interest in him and do have special interests in others - I've skipped him for the time being.

>>9626104
>objectivism cuz philosophy is reinforced by psychology is reinforced by philosophy is reinforced by psychology...
>ought from is because muhfeels
>you cannot ought to not is because muhnature

>>9626139
I'm not going to turn this into a Rand thread. There are already two of those.

Go to one.

>go to the wiki
>start with the greeks

>>9623731
Just read The Death of Ivan Ilych by Tolstoy as a primer. It's short so you'll be dying for more after.

>>9626109
Just don't read Kant without having read him, nerd