What are you reading?

rockonin · Post by **rockonin** » Wed Jun 25, 2014 4:18 pm

m8son wrote:“The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but that the relation relates itself to its own self.

Hate shit like that. It just reads like the author used a few relative similar words and used the 'what comes first the chicken or the egg' formula to make his statement sound deep.

rickyarbino · Post by **rickyarbino** » Wed Jun 25, 2014 4:28 pm

I don't think Mason did a good job of quoting that. Those types of sentences are usually written before or after a long section which explains what the self is and what relation is and so forth. Think of it as "What can I say that is true?"

Muncey · Post by **Muncey** » Wed Jun 25, 2014 4:31 pm

Big up scspkr99 on the recommendation, absolutely brilliant read so far.. about 3/4 of the way through. S'all gunna kick off between Einstein and Bohr!

Started reading David Hume on Suicide, one of the Penguin Great Ideas books, although I found it interesting I just couldn't get myself in the mood to read it so stopped about half way through.

Gunna start some of Michael Connellys books soon I think.. or read Requiem for a Dream.

m8son666 · Post by **m8son666** » Wed Jun 25, 2014 5:39 pm

rockonin wrote:
m8son wrote:“The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but that the relation relates itself to its own self.
Hate shit like that. It just reads like the author used a few relative similar words and used the 'what comes first the chicken or the egg' formula to make his statement sound deep.

lol

jesslem wrote:I don't think Mason did a good job of quoting that. Those types of sentences are usually written before or after a long section which explains what the self is and what relation is and so forth. Think of it as "What can I say that is true?"

yeah i did quote it unfairly, its pretty much at the beginning of the book and i think he will spend a fair bit of time explaining it. Also it has been translated from danish(?) so it might have made more sense in danish. also not as bad as some of the stuff hegel comes out with lol

Muncey · Post by **Muncey** » Wed Jun 25, 2014 6:16 pm

Mason do you mostly read existentialist philosophy? I've read the Stranger by Camus but thats about it.. anything, relatively easy, you'd recommend? I hear Kierkegaard is a bit difficult... although I intend to attempt Hegels Phenomenology of Spirit so I guess I'll give anything a shot. Was gunna give Nietzsches Anti-Christ a read but never got round to it.

Hegel interests me mainly because he hugely influenced Kierkegaard and Marx, 2 people who went in entirely different directions.

DiegoSapiens · Post by **DiegoSapiens** » Wed Jun 25, 2014 6:18 pm

nietzsche reads are always very entertaining

Muncey · Post by **Muncey** » Wed Jun 25, 2014 6:19 pm

Any you'd suggest starting with or just jump in with any?

DiegoSapiens · Post by **DiegoSapiens** » Wed Jun 25, 2014 6:22 pm

antichrist is the easiest to read
but my favorite is twilight of the idols

Muncey · Post by **Muncey** » Wed Jun 25, 2014 6:31 pm

Nice one, I've already got anti christ so that'll do nicely!

shmurkle · Post by **shmurkle** » Wed Jun 25, 2014 6:41 pm

the sacred mushroom and the cross
terrance mckenna food of the gods

m8son666 · Post by **m8son666** » Wed Jun 25, 2014 7:06 pm

Muncey wrote:Mason do you mostly read existentialist philosophy? I've read the Stranger by Camus but thats about it.. anything, relatively easy, you'd recommend? I hear Kierkegaard is a bit difficult... although I intend to attempt Hegels Phenomenology of Spirit so I guess I'll give anything a shot. Was gunna give Nietzsches Anti-Christ a read but never got round to it.

Hegel interests me mainly because he hugely influenced Kierkegaard and Marx, 2 people who went in entirely different directions.

Yeah i've only really got into it in the last year or so. I am more interested in pessimism so i started with "Pessimism:
Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit" by dienstag, which nicely and quite simply outlines camus, nietzsche, Schopenhauer, unamuno, cioran, Rousseau and several others' philosophies. I would definitely recommend it.

Then otherwise i would recommend the myth of sisyphus by camus, nausea by Sartre and the essay and aphorism book penguin put together by Schopenhauer. Havn't read any Nietzsche yet but beyond good and evil is on my to read list.

I have sort of started with more recent philosophers and am slowly moving back haha i think i will probably read more of hegel after kierkegaard.

DiegoSapiens · Post by **DiegoSapiens** » Wed Jun 25, 2014 7:15 pm

nietszche is not pessimist at all. more of the opposite

Muncey · Post by **Muncey** » Wed Jun 25, 2014 7:15 pm

m8son wrote:
Muncey wrote:Mason do you mostly read existentialist philosophy? I've read the Stranger by Camus but thats about it.. anything, relatively easy, you'd recommend? I hear Kierkegaard is a bit difficult... although I intend to attempt Hegels Phenomenology of Spirit so I guess I'll give anything a shot. Was gunna give Nietzsches Anti-Christ a read but never got round to it.

Hegel interests me mainly because he hugely influenced Kierkegaard and Marx, 2 people who went in entirely different directions.
Yeah i've only really got into it in the last year or so. I am more interested in pessimism so i started with "Pessimism:
Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit" by dienstag, which nicely and quite simply outlines camus, nietzsche, Schopenhauer, unamuno, cioran, Rousseau and several others' philosophies. I would definitely recommend it.

Then otherwise i would recommend the myth of sisyphus by camus, nausea by Sartre and the essay and aphorism book penguin put together by Schopenhauer. Havn't read any Nietzsche yet but beyond good and evil is on my to read list.

I have sort of started with more recent philosophers and am slowly moving back haha i think i will probably read more of hegel after kierkegaard.

Nice one I'll check that out. Myth of Sisyphus has been on my list ever since I finished The Stranger and I've got Nausea and The Age of Reason by Satre.. just find it hard to read a real book now I'm so use to reading on my kindle. Probably take them both on holiday with me as kindles are gash in the sun.

Got "Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius", a biography of Wittgenstein, a while ago but I've yet to start that either.. over 700 pages I think. I tend to buy more books than I can read lol.

m8son666 · Post by **m8son666** » Wed Jun 25, 2014 7:18 pm

DiegoSapiens wrote:nietszche is not pessimist at all. more of the opposite

yeah, the book talks of his Dionysian pessimism.

m8son666 · Post by **m8son666** » Wed Jun 25, 2014 7:21 pm

Muncey wrote:I tend to buy more books than I can read lol.

haha yeah me too, got a huge backlog

rickyarbino · Post by **rickyarbino** » Wed Jun 25, 2014 9:08 pm

m8son wrote:
Muncey wrote:I tend to buy more books than I can read lol.
haha yeah me too, got a huge backlog

I'm afraid of doing this myself. I really want to get Hegel's Science of Logic, but I know I won't get round to anything else for ages.

That being said, just got this from amazon. I'll probably keep this one for train journeys though.

Muncey · Post by **Muncey** » Wed Jun 25, 2014 9:15 pm

Let me know what thats like once you start it, looking for a maths based book after I watched a load of youtube vids off the numberphile channel.. Getting addicted to things that make me go WTF atm. "Monster Group" that needs 196883-dimensional space.. WOT

rickyarbino · Post by **rickyarbino** » Wed Jun 25, 2014 9:17 pm

Yeah, will do. Numberphile's a sick channel!

Jizz · Post by **Jizz** » Tue Jul 15, 2014 3:46 pm

seriously recommend Walden by Thoraeu, that conclusion alone is worth it

does anyone know any good academic reading on ideas regarding inner motivations? like say a church supports a certain political party's view, an investigation into why they might be supporting this as opposed to the other party's view

kay · Post by **kay** » Tue Jul 15, 2014 8:38 pm

The final book in the trilogy finally came out, so started reading this. Almost done, not much happens as it's mostly scene-setting but good read so far. A little more serious than typical Pratchett fair, a little less serious than typical Baxter stuff. Good mix.

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