Philosophy

Does anyone know what authors I should know and what books I should start reading? I have ordered mein Kampf. There is also Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx who else?

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Tell us a topic or just start with the Greeks

Start with the Greeks user.

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Which Greek philosophers do i start with?
I want to know who is influencing leaders in government?

Ok I found all this on 4plebs if anyone is interested

Homer – Iliad, Odyssey
The Old Testament
Aeschylus – Tragedies
Sophocles – Tragedies
Herodotus – Histories
Euripides – Tragedies
Thucydides – History of the Peloponnesian War
Hippocrates – Medical Writings
Aristophanes – Comedies
Plato – Dialogues
Aristotle – Works
Epicurus – Letter to Herodotus; Letter to Menoecus
Euclid – Elements
Archimedes – Works
Apollonius of Perga – Conic Sections
Cicero – Works
Lucretius – On the Nature of Things
Virgil – Works

Horace – Works
Livy – History of Rome
Ovid – Works
Plutarch – Parallel Lives; Moralia
Tacitus – Histories; Annals; Agricola Germania
Nicomachus of Gerasa – Introduction to Arithmetic
Epictetus – Discourses; Encheiridion
Ptolemy – Almagest
Lucian – Works
Marcus Aurelius – Meditations
Galen – On the Natural Faculties
The New Testament
Plotinus – The Enneads
St. Augustine – On the Teacher; Confessions; City of God; On Christian Doctrine
The Song of Roland
The Nibelungenlied
The Saga of Burnt Njál
St. Thomas Aquinas – Summa Theologica
Dante Alighieri – The Divine Comedy;The New Life; On Monarchy
Geoffrey Chaucer – Troilus and Criseyde; The Canterbury Tales
Leonardo da Vinci – Notebooks
Niccolò Machiavelli – The Prince; Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy
Desiderius Erasmus – The Praise of Folly
Nicolaus Copernicus – On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
Thomas More – Utopia
Martin Luther – Table Talk; Three Treatises
François Rabelais – Gargantua and Pantagruel
John Calvin – Institutes of the Christian Religion

Start with Socrates (which ironically is written mostly by Plato since Socrates never authored anything himself). You'll learn the Socratic method and that alone should change the way you think.

Get in gear with the basics by exploring ideas to a great extent by reading Aristotle.

You can skip a bunch and jump straight into some deep thinking with Descartes. Once you've got the basics on the mind-body problem you'll be ready for Kant vs. Hume, which pretty much pitches an anal asshole sperglord cunt vs. a chill guy who's obviously smarter than his counterpart and likes to party a lot.

Then you can jump into some ethics and understand a lot of contemporary issues with John Stewart Mill, and ONLY THEN, I think you'll have a solid foundation for understanding Nietzche (fucking autocorrect is raping me).

That should be a great start.

Michel de Montaigne – Essays
William Gilbert – On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies
Miguel de Cervantes – Don Quixote
Edmund Spenser – Prothalamion; The Faerie Queene
Francis Bacon – Essays; Advancement of Learning; Novum Organum, New Atlantis
William Shakespeare – Poetry and Plays
Galileo Galilei – Starry Messenger; Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences
Johannes Kepler – Epitome of Copernican Astronomy; Concerning the Harmonies of the World
William Harvey – On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals; On the Circulation of the Blood; On the Generation of Animals
Thomas Hobbes – Leviathan
René Descartes – Rules for the Direction of the Mind; Discourse on the Method; Geometry; Meditations on First Philosophy
John Milton – Works
Molière – Comedies

Language is a mind trap.

Plato - The Republic should definitely be on there. Still one of the best criticisms of democracy.