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This reminds me with my trying to catch-up on philosophy and its writers. I began wit Aristotle (because you know, he was the first). I never finished his Orga
by runn1ng 14y ago
This reminds me with my trying to catch-up on philosophy and its writers.
I began wit Aristotle (because you know, he was the first). I never finished his Organon since it was terribly, terribly boring. I never read anything else, so I ended with Aristotle.
- fogus 14y agoI have a Philosophy Ketchup list as well, it's too bad that you halted at the start. Nothing is more painful than a boring book.
- runn1ng 14y agoWell Aristotle is sort of important, he laied out the basis for today's logic and that sort of things. But it's really terribly long (since he had the idea that he has to describe EVERYTHING) and, at times, it doesn't make sense from today's perspective of today's logic and set theory.
- nooneelse 14y agoHmm, Aristotle has some very hard-reading bits. Especially without someone/thing there to put together the contexts, or to let you know you can skip over the truly boring bits to the next bit of meat when the bogging down gets heavy into obscure ancient disputes without missing a thing. Maybe try listening to http://www.historyofphilosophy.net/ http://www.historyofphilosophy.net/ . It is very good. Almost as good as, say, a giraffe. Also, for easier reading in general, people that wrote in pretty much the language you are reading are good for working up some philosophical inertia before plowing into tougher soil. I always recommend Hume. Rereading something like his epic philosophical burn on the design argument is just fun but then, that's me.
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- wazoox 14y agoPlato's dialogues are way, way easier to read than Aristotle; try some of these (Symposium, the Republic...). From Aristotle, "nicomachean ethics" is quite a good read IMO, I'd start with this.