How do I become a patrician? I wish to put aside the manchild

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>>9875765
I have already read the Greeks.

ftfy

idk Goethe?

Keep on the path. If you want to get out of philosophy, read the greek tragedies, the epics from roman empire.
Follow the timeline the sameway you would do with philosophy..

>>9875786

I say I have started with the Greek as I haven't finished them yet.

>>9875816

Roger that.

Plebs cannot become patricians, it's something you're born into. Sorry.

>>9875765
Immerse yourself in analytic metaphysics and drop every other branch of philosophy. The patrician leads an intellectual life of pure thought and leisure, unconcerned with practical matters.

>>9876030

Recommendations?

>>9876120
Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind - Sellars
Two Dogmas of Empiricism - Quine
On What There Is - Quine
Philosophical Investigations - Wittgenstein
Individuals: An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics - Strawson
On The Plurality of Worlds - Lewis
Naming and Necessity - Kripke

>>9876030
They that live a life of pure thought and liesure goes to their grave having left no mark on the Earth or others' lives, their existence in the temporal sphere barely a thought unto itself but an inconsequential and forgotten dream.

>>9876196
Why do you feel the compulsion to justify your existence to others and history?

>>9876209
Existence does not need to be justified, but actions can be weighed and valued. Liesure in moderation refreshes the body and mind and lightens the spirit, as work and practicality sharpens the body and mind and tempers the spirit with endurance and strength.
Saying life should be purely intellectual and liesurely or purely disciplinarian and grounded is like saying someone should live either only awake or asleep until they die, or spend their whole lives with their eyes opened or closed, or hopping on just the right foot or the left and never walking.
And even if you try to live a purely liesurely life, it's chasing the horizon line to escape night and live in only day. It fails and you'll be dragged unprepared into the worst sort of darkness.

>>9875765
The Bible.

>>9876187

Ordering now. What do you suggest I start with?