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Nov 10 2009 07:56pm
Could anybody recommend some good ancient philosophical and or Archivable readings?

I have not read in a while but some of the authors in which i like to read will be listed and i would appreciate if you didnt list these authors or verses(being as im already aware of their writings) would be Confucius, Sun Tzu((not philosopy)although im only aware of the ''Art of War'') and Niccolo Machiavelli.
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Nov 10 2009 09:18pm
plato's charmedes is very good. you can find it in a number of plato collection books. he speaks fluently on the actual act of philosophizing, and to top it off, i think it was only like 20 pages. quick and good read.
for some more in depth plato, there's plato's the republic. if you read this, you should also read machiavelli's republic as well. you can see alot of paralells between the two, although machiavelli along with a number of other renissance writers focused alot on era politic, which makes for some dryer reading with the key philosophical points hidden behind the application of them.
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Nov 13 2009 01:31pm
rene descartes mediations on first philosophy
plato republic
The Prince - by Machiavelli
Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche
Candide - Voltaire
Utopia - Thomas More
The Trial and Death of Socrates - Plato
Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx and Fred Engles
Critique Of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant
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Nov 15 2009 07:36pm
kant and moore are very good...
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Nov 16 2009 06:11pm
Quote (om3ga @ Nov 15 2009 06:36pm)
kant and moore are very good...


Immanuel Kant on Deontology
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Nov 18 2009 10:27am
Karl Popper is the greatest philosopher of the 20st century, he writes about about all other philosophers as well (and why and where they went wrong).
Karl Popper invented the concept of falsifiability, and thus he defined the meaning of "scientific" and made it possible to easily spot imposters, post-modernists, dogmatsts, theologians and other intellectual frauds and sellouts.

If you are interested in this kind of stuff, check out http://thesciencenetwork.org. It has many contemporary scientists of all fields speaking on Video.
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Nov 18 2009 01:33pm


Plato's Dialogues and Republic
Descartes Discourse on Method
David Hume An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Immanuel Kant Critique of Pure Reason
Friedrich Hegel Phenomenology of Spirit
Jean-Paul Sartre Being and Nothingness
Friedrich Nietzsche Gay Science and Human, All Too Human
Bertrand Russel History of Philosophy.
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Nov 21 2009 09:23am
Quote (filanthropy @ Nov 13 2009 07:31pm)
rene descartes mediations on first philosophy
plato republic
The Prince - by Machiavelli
Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche
Candide - Voltaire
Utopia - Thomas More
The Trial and Death of Socrates - Plato
Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx and Fred Engles
Critique Of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant


I especially liked the bolded, but if you're really looking to get into Philosophy, I really suggest reading Plato first.
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Dec 2 2009 04:21am
aristotle--ethics
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Dec 3 2009 02:36am
Can many of these titles generally be bought at a local book store, say, Barnes and Noble?
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