What are essential philosophers (or philosophical works) one should read in their lifetime, even though they're not majoring in anything related to philosophy? For instance, I'm a physicist and I'd like to read as much philosophy as humanly possible but the problem is that I don't quite know which works are essential.
So, which Greeks are the most important? Romans, Germans, French, Russian, Chinese? Lay it all on me.
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>greeks
>Eastern
>Germanic
Forget anything else
Kevin B. MacDonald - The Culture of Critique
L. Ron Hubbard - Dianetics
>even though they're not majoring in anything related to philosophy?
Stop having your enjoyment of ideas be constrained, this isn't stem, stop comparing them outright or else you'll never "get" philosophy and be the moron actually critiquing Plato's 2,400 year old Idealism. Humanities are meant to be learned and lived, philosophy can be an artform. The easiest and most essential way to into phil is pre-socratics, Plato, theology, Hegel . After Hegel you can into Feurebach, Marx, Engels, Keirkergaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, existentialists, Deleuze, Focault, Lacan and Derrida.
You must know the history of the natural world since the Big Bang, prehistory and the history of the civilizations. At the same time you must be learning the fundamental laws of the world and the science theories that have been made. When you finally start with the bronze age history you can also start with the study of ancient literature and at some point you will start to read philosophy. Do it and let things flow.
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>Latins
>Germans
>Latins
The only Hellenistics you need to know are the Platonists and Neoplatonists.
>>Latins
Literally who?
Because you are a physicist, I will literally find you in the afterlife and suck your dick in gratitude if you devote a considerable portion of your time to learning Husserlian and Heideggerian phenomenology, Merleau-Ponty, plus the more interesting postpositivist philosophers of science like N.R. Hanson and maybe Ludwig Fleck
Here's two book recommendations for you that I would genuinely be happy to learn that a physicist read: Koyre's _Closed World to the Infinite Universe_ and Merleau-Ponty's _Rebirth of Cosmology_.
He's not a physicist, he's a n 18-year-old kid who took a calculus and maybe a course on mechanics.