I'm an ignorant man. I'm a product of the times, and most of what I know and believe in is based upon regurgitated info I'm bombarded with, but continue to consume due to it being "practical". That being said, you can also see I'm not too clever or original either, being "edgy" and all that.
Any-who, I've always had an interest in philosophy, but I've never gotten into reading the work of a philosopher cover-to-cover. Actually, I can't even tell you when was the last time I've read a real actual book.
I'm just your typical pseudo-intellectual. Just one of those assholes who's got nothing and everything to say at the same time.
Although, I've been struck with a nagging feeling to learn more, be more like these men I read click-bait headlines about. I have no clue who Nietzsche really is, or what his work REALLY is about, but from all the buzzwords I read about him, he's my favorite!
On a serious note, I just want to see the world like THESE men saw it. Understand the world.
If I am to be powerless in this world, a peasant. I'd at the very least be able to understand certain things. Formulate my own, well constructed opinion of what it all comes down to. Simply to ease my own mind.
>Short version: So, how do I get into philosophy, being an ignorant bastard, raised on video games and television?
I have no respect for most forms of schools of thought, and I've always longed to find "something" I could respect, something I could sink in hours of study without caring that it's "study"
you have to live it. stop the vidya and tv. read. think.
Joseph White
I mean, take Nietzsche for example, or another continental philosopher. I'd love to read their works and actually understand what the men are saying.
What are some more entry-level books I could have a look at? For dummies I suppose.
Nolan Edwards
wtf does that dog have autism
Josiah Flores
you just gotta sit down and read.
start easy. read a paragraph, maybe highlight some sentances that stick out. stop and think.
do something else like wash the dishes or take out the garbage. think about what you read. write a sentance on the paragraph in a simple enough way that you can personally understand.
there is no easy way. just like going to the gym, you start small and it gets easier, then you increase the amount. you just gotta have an excuse to do it.
Cooper Garcia
Start with the Greeks
Ryan Hill
That's actually good advice. I like that. Thanks for giving me this insight.
I'm good, I have an idea of what I want to get into first.
Carter Anderson
Start with Plato (complete works) Treatise on Human Nature by Hume An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke Discourse on Method and the Meditations by Descartes Principles of Human Knowledge by George Berkeley Logic by Kant Critique of Pure Reason by Kant
Don't tell me you want to start with the Nietzsch Don't tell me you want to start with him because of Jordan Peterson
Jose Rodriguez
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Jose Thomas
He's real. That's why I want to start with him.
Even among people who dig philosophy, I see a lot of discussion, Veeky Forums included about things that seem just as pointless and harmful as religion.
imo, it's even worse than religion because it's harming a THINKING man's mind.
Owen Martin
>religion >pointless and harmful
Asher Rodriguez
this made me grimace
Genealogy of Morals Beyond Good and Evil Twilight of the Idols Ecce Homo Will to Power the Anti-Christ
World as Will and Representation Decline of the West/Man&Technics Socratic Dialogues Zhuangzi A Thousand Plateaus Dialectic of Enlightenment
have a gud time you stupid fucking nigger
Oliver Sullivan
also Being and Time when you’re ready, read Zhuanzi and DG first i think
Blake Allen
Well, I have my thoughts on that. Perhaps there is a point to it. As stated, I am ignorant. I'll have to read and come to new conclusions when the time is right.
But not now, I just don't have any desire to get into religion. I don't care about the ails of individuals.
Gay shit, gender shit, religion shit, race shit. It's all a waste of time to me, I can't relate to these things, they either don't affect me or I don't believe in them.
I'm not saying there shouldn't be people talking about these things. There should (I guess), but not me.
I just feel like there's gotta be something beyond all these (imo) menial topics people regurgitate over and over and over.
Fuckin, I just roll my eyes. Religion is comparable to Star Wars. There's nothing extraordinary about that brand. Those first 3 films are good films, and that's where it ends. But due to a number of things I do not comprehend, it became what it is today.
There was nothing in those 3 films to warrant THIS level of adoration. It's ridiculous, and religion is much the same way to me. Jesus or Paul or some other faggot spat out their OG trilogy (Christianity, whatever) back in the day and somehow it became what it is now. It's all hype, no substance.
>Religion = Star Wars
If other people have the care and patience to devote their time to these things, well. It's their life their wasting.
.What are these exactly? What can I look forward to in these works?
Benjamin Sanchez
Enjoy not understanding what you are reading. Do as Nietzsche and start with the Greeks.
Jayden Walker
Fuck you.
Jose Walker
you cant possibly be over 14
also start with nietzche if you want but you wont understand shit, philosophers like to jack off each other quoting earlier works, a good starting point to understand later works would be the fucking greeks
Oliver Howard
fuck you OP
Nathaniel Reed
You're dumb as fuck
William Johnson
wot
Logan Cooper
someone post the maze please?
also OP, stop being a faggot and read a goddamn book. You are a pseud either way, at least read some good books before you die
Hudson Green
b8?
Jaxon Thomas
open the maze picture and tilt your screen until you see text in the maze
