Dukasaur wrote:KoolBak wrote:So Dod....on a scale of 1 - 10, how much do you value the advice you're getting?
Do you want more?
Do you laff and shake your head?
Wanna hear about the 5,000 books I've read for fun? Or my 4 years of college philosophy??
This is fun....
I don't mind reading all the suggestions, though I absolutely won't be able to keep up with all of them.
Sure, I wouldn't mind hearing about your favourites.
You took Philosophy as a major?
I took one course in Philosophy and didn't even finish it. Didn't help that the first major assignment was on Plato, and I hate Plato. I'm thinking if they would have started with Aristotle, I might have gotten more enthused.
I have read bits and pieces of: Plato, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Kierkegaard, Hume, Nietzche, Lysander Spooner, John Stuart Mill. Browsed, skimmed, but didn't finish any of them. My ADD really showing. LOL. Philosophers that I have finished complete works by are really Voltaire, Voltaire, or Voltaire.
My mind always drifts back to Poul Anderson or Robert Heinlein, lol. The professors' outbursts in Starship Troopers is about as much philosophy as a can handle in a sitting.
Also read Machiavelli, L.Ron Hubbard, and Ayn Rand, although opinions diverge widely about whether any of those can be considered legitimate philosophers..
I remember being impressed by Colin Wilson's Introduction to Existentialist Phenomenology. I doubt I could read it now and stay awake.