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Date: June 22nd, 2016 9:11 PM Author: cream juggernaut (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3263321&forum_id=2...id..#30766614) |
Date: June 22nd, 2016 9:11 PM Author: Pungent Old Irish Cottage Sup breh (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3263321&forum_id=2...id..#30766620) |
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Date: June 22nd, 2016 9:12 PM Author: cream juggernaut thoughts on neoplatonism? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3263321&forum_id=2...id..#30766622) |
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Date: June 22nd, 2016 9:15 PM Author: Pungent Old Irish Cottage Never got deep into it much man, sorry. What about you? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3263321&forum_id=2...id..#30766657) |
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Date: June 22nd, 2016 9:18 PM Author: cream juggernaut seems pretty cr imo. i am trying to bone up on philosophy by reading some intro texts. i randomly downloaded "a new history of western philosophy vol 1" by kenny and its pretty darn good. any recs for other good intro texts? more generally what is the best way to "get into" philosophy. like i am kind of getting into it but i just tried to read up on the "obecjtive subjective distinction" and i wanted to blow my brains out because it seemed so fucking stupid. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3263321&forum_id=2...id..#30766689) |
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Date: June 22nd, 2016 9:29 PM Author: Pungent Old Irish Cottage If I had to design a philosophy bootcamp is say this.
Get shitty cheap versions of:
Descartes: meditations on first philosophy Locke: inquiry concerning human understanding Berkeley: Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous Hume: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Kant: Critique of pure reason
Take one day for each book and read as much as you can in it for 3 hours with serious concentration.
After those 5 days think of any possible topic that interests you and Google it. Read the SEP on the topic as you find it interesting and refer to the most cited philosopher on that subject. Pick up his most important book and start reading it. Skip around if you get bored. Philosophy is all about being interested.
Use that book as a jumping off point into other authors and books as you find interesting. Your crash course should arm you with the tools to understand basic references to the history of philosophy. If you don't understand a reference use it as an opportunity to learn. Always look for something new to read. |
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Date: June 22nd, 2016 9:30 PM Author: cream juggernaut ty.
did you ace all your phil undergrad courses or sth? |
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Date: June 22nd, 2016 9:32 PM Author: Pungent Old Irish Cottage nah, got mostly a- in upper level. Never had a gift for philosophy, just grinded like a prole (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3263321&forum_id=2...id..#30766837) |
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Date: June 22nd, 2016 9:35 PM Author: Obsidian razzle brunch lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3263321&forum_id=2...id..#30766869) |
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Date: June 22nd, 2016 9:34 PM Author: Obsidian razzle brunch starting with descartes? reading 3 hours a day for 5 days and then fucking around on SEP? are you a tard for real? this guys into neoplatonism let him browse around and pick up plotinus and augustine and whoever else he feels like. ur just substituting philosophy in one arbitrary area of interest for your own arbitrary area |
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Date: June 22nd, 2016 9:36 PM Author: Pungent Old Irish Cottage Nah man, if you want to read contemporary philosophy you need to understand the moderns. No one reads neoplatinism their whole life. He asked how to get into philosophy, not neoplatonism (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3263321&forum_id=2...id..#30766883) |
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Date: June 22nd, 2016 9:41 PM Author: Obsidian razzle brunch why would anyone want to read contemporary philosophy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3263321&forum_id=2...id..#30766951) |
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Date: June 22nd, 2016 9:43 PM Author: Pungent Old Irish Cottage Because the average iq of someone in 400BC Greece was like 80? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3263321&forum_id=2...id..#30766981) |
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Date: June 22nd, 2016 9:44 PM Author: Duck-like Liquid Oxygen People Who Are Hurt Jfc you're an idiot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3263321&forum_id=2...id..#30766991) |
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Date: June 22nd, 2016 9:49 PM Author: Pungent Old Irish Cottage Bb-bbbut- iq is a quotient! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3263321&forum_id=2...id..#30767039) |
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Date: June 22nd, 2016 9:51 PM Author: bossy nowag resort More like 120 judging from the low population to high genius ratio (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3263321&forum_id=2...id..#30767067) |
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Date: June 22nd, 2016 9:36 PM Author: cream juggernaut jesus relax u aspie he's trying to be helpful. im a fucking scatterbrained autist so im obviously not goign to do what he suggests but i appreciate the idea (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3263321&forum_id=2...id..#30766888) |
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Date: June 22nd, 2016 9:43 PM Author: sapphire library that was my exact syllabus for my intro to modern philosophy class.
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Date: June 22nd, 2016 9:58 PM Author: Pungent Old Irish Cottage You could probably add Socrates and Aristotle in there but they'd be harder to pin down to one book (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3263321&forum_id=2...id..#30767134) |
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Date: June 22nd, 2016 10:02 PM Author: sapphire library i studied those two in my intro to ancient philosophy course, but we had a reader which included excerpts. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3263321&forum_id=2...id..#30767189) |
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Date: July 13th, 2026 10:37 PM Author: Consuela " Never got deep into it much man, sorry."
oh dear |