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SlowToke wrote: 22 Mar 2024, 11:41

Wosbald wrote: 19 Mar 2024, 22:06

SlowToke wrote: 19 Mar 2024, 20:27 You going Marxist/Communist?

No. I simply read Philosophy.

Marx is crucial stepping-stone after Hegel and onwards towards Schopenhauer and Husserl, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Kojève, etc.

Gotcha. I jumped straightg to Nietzsche. I'm a heathen and not nearly as methodical as you. Your way makes more sense.

One hasta eventually take the plunge and just jump in somewhere. Nietzsche is as good a place as any.

I, myself, jumped in at Nietzsche long ago. It'll be interesting to revisit him after all these years and to see how time and experience affect my reading.

Three Musketeers

The Mistborn trilogy by Brian Sanderson
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
The Log from the Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck
Timescape by Gregory Benford
I am Legend by Richard Matheson

Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara

It opens with this little story by Somerset Maugham: "There was a merchant in Bagdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said, Master, just now when I was in the marketplace I was jostled by a woman in the crowd and when I turned I saw it was Death that jostled me. She looked at me and made a threatening gesture; now, lend me your horse, and I will ride away from this city and avoid my fate. I will go to Samarra and there Death will not find me. The merchant lent him his horse, and the servant mounted it, and he dug his spurs in its flanks and as fast as the horse could gallop he went. Then the merchant went down to the marketplace and he saw me standing in the crowd and he came to me and said, Why did you make a threating getsture to my servant when you saw him this morning? That was not a threatening gesture, I said, it was only a start of surprise. I was astonished to see him in Bagdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra."

I just finished Peter Kreeft's Why Does Everything Come in Threes.

Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky

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Finally finished Marx's Grundrisse after 7 mos. Difficult. Not as hard as Hegel (nothing's that hard), but still a tough nut.

Marx works in the same basic framework (though both inverted and reversed) as Hegel, and he assumes the reader's familiarity with it. No doubt I woulda had an even rougher time putting a dent in Grundrisse without first digesting the groundwork laid by Hegel's Science of Logic.

Anyways, onwards …

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Capital: Vol 1: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx

Starting The Fourth Dimension by David Yonggi Cho.
It came highly recommended.
We'll see.

The Log of a Cowboy. Good stuff.

Hugo Drax wrote: 14 Oct 2024, 08:42 The Log of a Cowboy. Good stuff.

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