What are you reading to improve your mind user? You do know that being smart is as important as being fit don’t you?
I’m finishing up House of Leaves, should have it done in a day or two, I’ve only got 100 pages left.
Also need to finish my copy of The History of Political Philosphy, then I’ll head on to reading some Adorno, maybe Heidegger.
Does anyone have any reccs for good books on esoterism (primarially pagan)
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Marx and Engel
Kropotkin
Hegel
Lacan
Good shit, learning a lot
Recently read in the dust of this planet and had to find some material to distract me from the nihilism lol
Oh and esotericism wise, you may enjoy the corpus hermeticum
you read hegel and lacan without a condom? wtf
Some meme shite that makes me seem edgy or cool.
Ayn rand and nietzsche, the dumb guy trying hard to be smart philosophy
I'm reading all of Evola. Metaphysics of War and Hermetic Tradition right now. I suggest everybody gets into traditionalist esotericism and philosophy. It is very essential for not being a slave minded bugman faggot and for getting your spirit out of this decadent age of Kali as well as your body. Become a fighter
Im reading "All the Pretty horses"- its by the same guy who wrote "No Country for Old men." Its pretty braindead but I haven't read a for pleasure book in years- figured i'd start out easy
>reccs for good books on esoterism
Here you go
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kys yourself leftoid pseud
Anything by Ernst Jünger. First of all storm of steel and then his other diaries and works about war.
Just finished Influence: the Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini. Now I'm reading A Guide to Wine by Julian Curry.
Nice resolution.
Oswald Spengler
Orson Scott Card
Julius Evola
I started to today Plato's Republic.
Halfway through Isaac Asimov's Foundation. Its okay.
About to reread Hoshi no Samidare and Sengoku Youko before reading Spirit Circle for the first time.
reading the ambulatory chapter this week chancesforyouth.com
In case anyone wants the full version.
where to start w nietzsche?
Be a big boy and read Evola
>It is very essential for not being a slave minded bugman faggot and for getting your spirit out of this decadent age of Kali as well as your body.
What should I start with for this type of stuff and avoid his nazi shit?
Beyond Good and Evil is essential
>tfw Evola wasn't translated into your native language at all
I read anime.
There's nothing more about philosophy for me to learn anyway. Communism bad, capitalism good.
Define "nazi shit"
He can't becuase he apparently thinks facism = naziism.
Nailed it. Hopefully you have a good 9-5 now and an avg salary or hourly rate and never ask anymore questions.
Start with holy grail, you'll enjoy his stuff once you get your head around that piece. Might take a reread or two unless you're already very well read. Evola wrote in a very proper esoteric style that fell out of style quite a while ago.
Evola was never a national socialist. Evola turnes to Germany after being disappointed with Italian fascism. He saw potential in national socialism but was ultimately disappointed once more because of their modernist views, obsession with the idea of racial superiority and disregard of true tradition.
Holy grail is a good start. If you want to understand esoteric tradition you shouldn't be afraid nazis, there are far scarier things you will discover.
>Memories, dreams, reflections - Carl Jung
>Java 8 in action
>A Feast of Crows
One is for reading before bed, one is for reading in the bus and the other is for my little free time.
Nietzche had a form of autism for sure. I'm not taking away from his contributions to philosophy, but holy hell just look into his eyes. He was a genetically troubled dude.
He once went to a brothel but was too nervous to ask for a girl, so he sat down at the piano that was there, played for a while, spilled spaghetti and left.
>Java
Holy shit what a disgusing pajeet language. Learn C++, nigger.
>I suddenly saw myself surrounded by half-a-dozen apparitions in tinsel and gauze who looked at me expectantly. I stood for a moment speechless.
>Then I made instinctively for a piano in the room as to the only living thing (seelenhafte, soulful) in that company and struck several chords. They broke the spell and I hurried away.
Read some Jung. Start off with Memories Dreams and Reflections and if you get on well with that, move onto Man and His Symbols. Then go onto his collected works.
xD
I'm reading Victory by Joseph Conrad for entertainment
I used to read Evola and the Greeks and all that but I didn't get much out of it and it never changed who I was.. seems like those guys were bored and came up with thousands of ways to say "be a decent person"
HHAHAAHA I read about that briefly somewhere but it was actually just as autistic as I imagined holy shit. I love Nietzsche.
Anyone know good sites for philosophy audiobooks? Free DLs/torrents of course
Currently reading through Politics by Aristotle. I kinda want to get back into reading literature, but I'll stick w/ philosophy atm.
Main book right now: structure and interpretation of computer programs (I'm a fuckin bad programmer, man.)
Part time: Introduction to statistical learning
Most recently completed: The Toyota way, and Griffith's intro to quantum mechanics (most of it anyway)
Recently dropped: mike & ike's quantum computation and quantum information
You guys should learn math or something, shit.
>Not reading both.
Seriously, despite Evola's hostilty to some German philisophy (rather, it's misuse), undertstanding both allows for, at the least, understanding a lot of contemporary politics. And Hegel's spiritual views aren't entirely incompatible with those of Evola. The most interesting stuff is getting to the proto-anarchists, the guys who sort of later split into leftist anarchists and fascists/national syndicalists, and understanding why - despite the claim that these are opposite sides - they actually agreed on stuff at the start. Add in some Nietzsche, especially the earlier stuff on morality and aesthetics, and you've got a solid grounding in modern political philosophy - especially if you, again, start considering how someone like Emma Goldman (an anarchist, leftists and feminists) came to appreciate Nietzche so much despite the apparent difference.
Every instathot and her sugar daddy is reading this book
Evola is bullshit
You're all literally brainlets
Art of war and stephan hawkins 10 world problems
Anyone who studies philosophy enough will become a leftist, the right has no philosophy at its core. It offers nothing but a juvenile power fantasy that is not connected to reality or metaphysics
Brainwashed soul, you have nothing to lose but your chains
Read Thinking, Fast and Slow by Kahneman. Great book and super eye opening.
what did it teach you?
I really liked the way he broke up thinking into the two systems. A lot of the things talked about in the book are things that I've always known on some level to be true (some concepts were new to me as well though) but I had never actually consciously considered them. He breaks down the way people think really well imo
I enjoy horror and scifi. I just read the fisherman and it was great. Not fit related at all but if you like those genres it was a great book.
Quick recap of it, a fisherman gets into some cosmo horror type shit
if you want to feel better about your life
fuck man what they had to go through. All without a single ounce of sympathy.
The guy was a corporal and read the orders of the upcoming attack where they had to keep up an assault no matter the losses against machine guns, purely as a diversion for a possible breakthrough somewhere else along the line.While the officers did fuck all in the back
Or when an officer got 10 men killed retaking a random building for his own honour
Do people think they are smart for reading philosophy books?
Apart from a handful of quotes from them they are generally a pretty boring read.
Read something thats going to benefit you. For example something about financials or getting your life in order.
it pretty fucking insane what france went through. Imagine you have national service, and you use the most fit 18 year olds as the assault troops then whoops 29/30 of that years graduates are dead at the battle of the frontiers in a couple of months.
More dead in the war in a nation of 40 million than all of American soldiers in all wars in history.
actual retard
This.. the more you try to understand people the further you will drive yourself into depression
Look at all these top philosophers.. they were not happy, social people, they sat in their rooms alone trying to justify why they didn't fit in
I think there is value in philosophy as a means of learning how to think a certain way, and exploring ideas using that thought process.
If you just pick up the books and read them expecting entertainment value, or if you don't take the time to understand the logic being used, then you'll get absolutely nothing from them.
There's a discussion to be had about whether it is actually worth it to spend such a large amount of time studying methods of thinking, but overall I agree with you. There are much better things to focus on for academic reading, and being a good philosopher is a waste of time comparatively
I recently read through all of Kafka. His books left me with many interesting ideas about the potential evils of beurocracy, interpersonal relations, trust, hopelessness, human worth, and the childlike feeling before undersanding the pulleys and levers sleeplessly driving our society. It opened my eyes to things I've always taken for granted.
Currently reading the Golden thread by Miguel Serrano
Shit is p good
I'm wondering if unlocking Vril energy will help my gains though
Little Busters!
I remember when I was big into political philosophy as a edgy high school kid. Grew out of it thankfully and accepted that politics is a game for elite pedophiles and we should not strive to pretend to deeply understand an unnatural institution.
I just finished that, it's a pretty comfy read compared to his other stuff.
Cowboy stories are cool when they're not retard-tier pulp or full-on insanity like Blood Meridian.
If I primarily read history and medieval/renaissance novels, am I missing out? I never really felt any catharsis or enlightenment from philosophy, at the end of the day it never changes my mindset or motivation. But Wolfram von Esenbech and Thomas Mallory make me feel energetic and focused.
Will I forever be a Jow Forumslet without actually finishing my Kierkegaard?
Social skills and NLP books.
>Java
bro no. Java is the language I learned with and know best, but you wanna learn C++ or even Python
Varg has hot takes on paganism. I would recommend paganism explained series to start.
Why can't people read something they enjoy reading?
Promise at Dawn by Romain Gary
great book
Also Adorno is a weak cunt, read Habermas
Same shit here. I really want to start reading philosophy but a lot of philosophical schools have no translations of their works to Arabic. It will take me a lot of time before my English becomes good enough to understand philosophy books.
It seems that your english is okay
Many works will be too hard, of course, but work through them with a thesaurus or something like that. Once you start grasping the concepts, you will learn the language much faster.
First book is great. It's all downhill after that.
Lately I've only been allowing myself to read for pleasure in German or French, as I'm going to school in Germany next year and I'm planning on getting a job in a Fremch-speaking city in 3-4 years. I've been reading all the Herman Hesse booms I've read in English in their original forms, and I'm reading some short mystery novels by a contemporary Quebecois author called Samuel Archibald. Has anyone got any other suggestions for intermediate French/easy German reading?
audiobooks are shit. just learn to read my nigga
Good shit user, keep it up.
What are you reading of Marx, Engels, and Hegel? I've been wanting to give them a try but not sure what to start with.
René Guénon > Evola u faggots
I read house of leaves 10 years ago, awesome book. gave me some weird dreams
At least, you're aware of your mental capacities.
Cringe.
Capitalism = chains
Communism = even tighter chains
No thanks
Reading a Japanese grammar book and I’ll be starting manga in moonrunes once I finish
I was going to buy this but seeing Jared Diamond's endorsement on the cover put me off permanently.
Also, here is how you get into philosophy:
>find the best university in your language
>go to their website
>find the Philosophy programme
>track down which textbooks the first years are reading for courses akin to "fundamental philosophy" and "history of philosophy"
>read these books
Don't just jump into primary texts without any background whatsoever. That's really stupid. Think of it this way: would you learn Newtonian physics from a highschool textbook or read the Principia Mathematica?
Entry-level college textbooks are great because they give you an overview of all major schools and time periods without being insultingly simplified like most intro books for the public. You can further explore philosophers you like at your own discretion.
Hell, if you're really interested, just sneak into some actual lectures. It's not like anyone will notice or care you're not actually a student. I did this for college lectures on Jung. Get an expert to teach you stuff for free. The 21st century is nuts.