For the plebs who are really interested in philosophy and want to read and study it for fun,not to be forced
Reading List
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needs more Camus.
>I wanna study philosophy
>I'll just study existentialism
>Disregards anything before Descartes
>Includes 6 Camus books
Is this the worst 'what to read' chart yet?
>what book recommendations should I give to a beginner who wants to study philosophy?
>Oh I know, a bunch of Heidegger (surely Heidegger is a great starting point!) then a bunch of novels by Camus and Dostoevsky, surely a person who does not formally understand philosophy yet can tease apart the philosophical undertones to these writers! Surely people looking to begin their study of philosophy will benefit most if they read Heidegger with no foundation and then a bunch of novels. Clearly, a thorough study of philosophy should skip all of the classical western canon up through the renaissance and enlightenment, clearly those thousands of years of thought are just a boring waste to a person trying to learn philosophy! What they need, obviously, is to study novels and a few modernists. Yes. Yes indeed.
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I liked it.
>Is this the worst 'what to read' chart yet?
It's up there for sure.
You should seriously add this to your list
>Husserl without Descartes