>>9662337
not necessarily
It's English philosophy, man. It's not difficult. Read whatever the fuck you want, you'll get it either way.
>>9662337
A sensible reader would rather read Eubulides, Swedenborg, Malebranche, Hrabanus, Fichte, Ptolemy, Bobbio, Kierkegaard, Debord, Marcuse, Kropotkin, Albert Caraco, Habermas, Klages, Adorno, Dio Chrysostom, Schleiermacher, Iamblichus, Zabarella, Robert Grosseteste, Urs von Balthasar, Giordano Bruno, Eusebius Pamphili, Al-Farabi, Pomponazzi, Anaximander, Helvétius, Leibniz, Gómez Dávila, Jacobi, Lacan, Rehmke, Sloterdijk, Mimnermus, Polycarp, Ellul, Agamben, Rashi, Condillac, Didymus the Blind, Popper, Foucault, Leonardo Polo, Boethius, Wronski, John Capreolus, Aeneas of Gaza, Tartaglia, Simone Weil, Proclus, Bourdieu, Abhinavagupta, Müntzer, Leo Strauss, Weininger, Shaftesbury, Géraud de Cordemoy, Merleau-Ponty, Roscellinus, Jouffroy, Sanjaya Belatthiputta, Paul Rée, Jaspers, Ortega y Gasset, Tertullian, Hayek, Stumpf, Gracián, Bossuet, Africano Spir, Descartes, Spengler, Brentano, Liu Yiming, Vico, Aristippus, Lavater, Shemariah of Negropont, Maupertuis, Kojève, Gassendi, Wundt, Žižek, Louis de Bonald, Gagliardi, Duns Scotus, Erving Goffman, Novalis, Thucydides, Justin Martyr, Cioran, Walter Benjamin, Dühring, Dugin, Sozomen, Apringius, Basedow, Pareto, Buridan, Teilhard de Chardin, Alcidamas and Feuerbach before even hoping to grasp this masterful book.
>>9662337
I read Humes enquiries without this and I managed fine. The treatise may be a different story though
Not OP, but if I'm looking to get into Kant, what is the reading order?
So far, I've read Descartes and Leibniz. I have heard Locke and Hume are necessary. What about Berkeley and Spinoza?
>>9663060
Yes because they're not French
>>9663256
Which of Kant's works are you most interested in?
>>9663095
This would be the smart thing to do
>>9663256
Read all 6.
>>9662337
Start with Bacon.
>>9663095
>, Žižek
get out
>>9663256
OP here, pretty sure you have to read all of those to read CPR. It's the reason why I'm starting with Locke.
>>9663256
You can get Kant without any background.
Just read Groundwork before Critique