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What are essential philosophical readings for a conservative? I recently finished The Prince by Machiavelli and Leviathan to Hobbes. Any suggestions? Pic unrelated.

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Also, I'm about a quarter of the way through Rand's Atlas Shrugged and it's not really doing anything for me.

>Mein Kampf
>Julius Evola
>Brave New World

Stop reading. It is shit. Start with the classics. 1984 and Brave New World. Decide where you want to go from there.

How did you find the Prince? I'm a bit through it, at advice for establishing a monarchy, it's a bit tedious. Does it get better?

Read Machiavelli's "Discourses on Livy", this is where it's at.
I was told that Italians to this day say that someone "writes like Machiavelli" when spmething incredibly elegantly and to the point. I can remember how I got tears in my eye because of some quotes in this book.

Oh, and you'll get a thrilling introduction into ancient Roman and renaissance Italian history.

The Prince really sucks in comparison, he wrote it to suck up to the reigning pope of his days.

Spengler, The Decline of the West

Edmund Burke.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflections_on_the_Revolution_in_France

the aeneid and the odyssey.

if you don't want to read about railroads for 400 pages just look up John Galt's speech and read that

1984 is excellent although it assumes an outside enemy of sorts pressing down. it's a bit simplistic. in the modern age our enemy isn't just big brother, it's our own apathy, ease of distraction, and lethargy. still, everyone should read it.

The Meditations

By Marcus Aurelius

classics.mit.edu/Antoninus/meditations.1.one.html

Atlas Shrugged.

>in the modern age our enemy isn't just big brother, it's our own apathy, ease of distraction, and lethargy.
... that's literally the entire point of the proles

mind you i'm drunk typing this

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The Meditations is a great read if you can keep the author in context. Marcus was just writing to himself.

Carl Schmitt is a good author

try getting thru this
youtube.com/watch?v=Yat0ZKduW18
dude was my sleeping pill for a good 6 months

Read George Sabine's "A History of Political Theory".

A pdf of it
constitution.org/mac/disclivy.pdf

Carl Schmitt - the concept of the political

Listen to Stephen Hicks' Explaining Postmodernism on YouTube. Gets to the roots of modern day progressive politics, and shows how it is actually an irrational beast with many layers that are antagonistic to reason

Yes. His advice on management and running a state is superb. The establishment section in the beginning is somewhat dated.

Nietzsche
Plato
Aristotle
All the Classical Liberals
Richard M. Weaver
William Buckley

If you're a Christian, Kierkegaard isn't a bad read either.

The 48 laws of power - Robert Greene
It is an expansion upon The Prince, The Art of War, and countless others.

Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn- it is a long read but you will come out of it knowing your enemy and yourself inside out and some more.

Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men, Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

>reading a kikesses fantasy

yurope is top tier and is now even available in print and as an audio book
youtube.com/watch?v=9iFUymEw1r4

On the Origin of Species.

Start with the Greeks
Edmund Burke
Leo Strauss (has good writings on both Plato and Hobbes)
Ersnt Junger
Nick land ;0
whatever
Read non-"right" stuff too, read Voltaire, read Rosseau, read Marx, read read readreadfsefagsgaadnfiugjaerigaergniadfjoga;gianfionbajknvklamoipkawiojgoijgjetiognfijbnsuvm5mgoiawnjfansgajsiogje

celine, houellebecq, mishima
read them.

jordanbpeterson.com/2016/11/book-list/

Sort yourself out, journey to the underworld, slay the dragon, and save your father bucko. ...oh and clean your damn room.

Schopenhauer, at least read his essay on women.

Also, Hume's economic and political essays are worth reading along with his Dialogue on Natural Religion.

Nietzsche's Geneology of Morals.

The Constition of Liberty by FA Hayek.

Joseph de Maistre (deus vult!)
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>liberalism
REEEEEEEEEEE

Stefan Molyneux's videos are mandatory. He understands it all.

Xth post and nobody has mentioned Road to Serfdom. Yall motherfuckers need to step up.

I enjoyed reading Submission

brainlet pseud cult leader

Read Atomised recently. A very enjoyable, if sometimes overwrought, sweeping indictment of the sexual revolution.

>evola
yes
>rest
not needed

my dude

my other dude

I liked it when I read it more than a decade ago, might see if it's better now that I'm older.

> ... he who has not mastered the Kantian philosophy, whatever else he may have studied, is, as it were, in a state of innocence ; that is to say, he remains in the grasp of that natural and childish realism in which we are all born, and which fits us for everything possible, with the single exception of philosophy. Such a man then stands to the man who knows the Kantian philosophy as a minor to a man of full age.

fair enough

i havent seen "the morals and dogma of freemasonry" by the great albert pike.

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>don't read books that have opposite opinions
This is what leads to people being unable to argue their points successfully. Know your opponent, faggot.

t. Have read multiple Marxist/communist and libertarian books and am more fashy than ever

It's written by a conwoman who needed mary sues and magic technology to make her ideas remotely plausible.

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Institutes of Christian religion by John Calvin. This is based Christianity.

Try Rothbard.

Kant is a good bet, especially his views on the utility of religion.

Get the basics on ideology with 1984. Brave New World and Animal Farm.
Whether you agree with Hitler or not, give Mien Kampf a try.

w-why you betray your race user?

>celine

one lone decent read

you guys display a masochistic interest in truly boring books

these are bad

This isn't about fun, it's about working through political philosophy.

>no one has posted the Sup Forums books mega
Fucking newfags, pls.
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ALL of Ayn Rand's works. The Fountainhead, Atlus Shrugged, and The Virtue of Selfishness in particular.
Leonard Peikoff's "The Ominous Parallels" and "Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand" to round it out. Far more formal.

Here's a excerpt from Altus Shrugged to get you started; youtube.com/watch?v=8F5nhYo5nx4

Joseph de Maistre and Carl Schmitt
Start with the greeks

Plato doesn't really belong with these others but if you meant him as reading for kowing your enemy, sure. I'd add Rand to this list, and Milton Friedman.

What should I read next? Just beginning on my journey.

this guy's right, reading was invented by the jewish communists to turn people away from conservatism
Oh man George Orwell is great, truly a very interesting socialist thinker

Yeah, the ending of 1984 really got to me, a really great book

it got to me too tbqh, made me see the problems in my previous way of stalinist thinking

This short ~100 page book which summarizes Karl Popper's views on science and political philosophy: docdroid.net/KflQzSx/philosophy-and-the-real-world-an-introduction-to-karl-popper-bryan-magee.pdf.html
>Because he [Popper] regards living as first and foremost a process of problem-solving he wants societies which are conducive to problem-solving. And because problem-solving calls for the bold propounding of trial solutions which are then subjected to criticism and error-elimination, he wants forms of society which permit the untrammelled assertion of differing proposals, followed by criticism, followed by the genuine possibility of change in the light of criticism.
>Rationality, logic and a scientific approach all point to a society which is 'open' and pluralistic, within which incompatible views are expressed and conflicting aims pursued; a society in which everyone is free to investigate problem-situations and to propose solutions; a society in which everyone is free to criticize the proposed solutions of others, most importantly those of the government, whether in prospect or application; and above all a society in which the government's policies are changed in the light of criticism.

Marxist biographer Isaiah Berlin says Popper's 'The Open Society and Its Enemies' contains 'the most scrupulous and formidable criticism of the philosophical and historical doctrines of Marxism by any living writer'. George Soros appropriated the 'Open Society' name for himself after reading Popper but Soros' views are not aligned with Popper's.

Bump, i'd love to get some suggestions, don't really know where to go from here

Culture of Critique

1984 is a quick read, and the Prince is short as hell so either of those.

or just start with Aristotle and work your way through the classics

>start with Aristotle

I've already read all of them, looking for some others to buy actually

got me through a very rough time in my life ngl

Being and Nothingness by Sartre

I know you're probably not interested in spending your time reading Commie Propaganda, but my personal recommendation if you're interested is Reform and Revolution (Luxemburg)

It's pretty light compared to most communist literature, and even if you're not convinced of the ideas it might tell you a bit about what pushes people into revolutionary thought
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Aristotle is a good place to start too

ALL of you should read this!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tyranny of Guilt by Pascal Bruckner

the fountainhead is worth a read instead

One day i'll probably get to read commie stuff just to at least try to understand their points better, so, book added to my list

Thanks for the link

Nah, already read too much fiction

> fiction

>ctrl+f
>russell
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I tried reading Mein Kampf and Hitler was a much better public speaker than he was a writer, also the Jew hate is pretty tame compared to what I read on this board.

That said, it was entertaining to read about young emo Hitler being all "but dad, I don't wanna join the civil service like you, I need to work on my art!"

I love that man. A true catholic reactionary

Anything by Edmund Burke

Fun fact: After WW2 Mein Kampf was banned in Germany. However, thanks to copyright laws, all works become public domain 50-ish years after the death of the creator/author/owner. And thanks to some other laws wich I don't really care about, any book could, theoretically, be 'legal' again.

Earlier this year, Mein Kampf became part of the public domain, and for the first time since WW2, germans could legaly buy a copy of it. Now, the germans bought so many copies it became a bestseller.

Considering the books you're just now reading I'd recommend maybe Hatchet or The Giver next.

auto-indoctrination request

Elliot Rodger's manifesto
Get a look into the pinnacle of the disenfranchised modern male.

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also everything on this youtube channel channel/UCl5ugni6k7TfXrGa5STGnpw

now get to reading dumbshit

Nobody posted Solzhenitsyn's Two Hundred Years Together.

If you are going to recommend something you should post an excerpt to convince people it's worth reading.

This book series is pretty red pilled.

Kafka.

I fucking hate conservatives who say, "nuh uh, the DEMOCRATS are the REAL FASCISTS!" Idk if that book is about that or not but fuck it's annoying. And no, I'm obviously not a Democrat.