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Very good book

I can't get into this book no matter how hard I try.

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Should I read this? I've read some stoicism stuff before but I find some of it mundane. This one isn't a tedious read is it?

If you want to understand philosophy you have to have a foundation in it, and the Republic along with Aristotles works are essential for that

Honestly, I wish someone would take it, edit out the redundancies, write a thorough analysis and publish it as some educational bullshit.

Could be epic.

Same here. I've fucking tried.

I can't understand it.

>philosophy

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so much knowledge, so few lifetimes

lmao why does this look like a Vampire Weekend album

Aurelius' Meditations is easily the book enjoying the widest support on pol, every tribe and segment endorses it.

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Pretty good, even though Seneca obviously did not keep it 100 in da end. Good overview of Stoicism, some is garbage some is applicable. I thoroughly enjoyed.

Can you read this without reading The Republic?

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Apologies for accidentally reposting this, it really is a fantastic overview of Stoicism and provides a great deal of wisdom digestable in small doses for the maximization of impact.

Maybe you have a shitty translation, the spanish version is a light read.

This book triggers lefties to this day. Provided they even remember it exists.

A nice idea, but there's really no reason to read it beyond following a couple of demonstrations (maybe the one on the Pythagorean theorem and however man you need to back-trace to understand it) to understand how mathematical rigor looked before mathematics developed a more refined formal language. Which is interesting, but unless you're into paleontology I don't know how productive it'll be over reading a modern textbook on formal logic.

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>"Now for divine begettings there is a period comprehended by a perfect number, and for mortal by the first in which augmentations dominating and dominated when they have attained to three distances and four limits of the assimilating and the dissimilating, the waxing and the waning, render all things conversable and commensurable [546c] with one another, whereof a basal four-thirds wedded to the pempad yields two harmonies at the third augmentation, the one the product of equal factors taken one hundred times, the other of equal length one way but oblong,-one dimension of a hundred numbers determined by the rational diameters of the pempad lacking one in each case, or of the irrational lacking two; the other dimension of a hundred cubes of the triad. And this entire geometrical number is determinative of this thing, of better and inferior births."

Explain

Is he the philosopher who wrote about stoicism? Besides Zeno.

I tried reading it, got about 20 pages in and I don't know if it's the translation or maybe I'm dumb but I can't get into it either.

Book 1 is a great mental excercise and definitely worth working through, especially for youngfags on here. Books 2-13 are mostly irrelevant, though there are some gems like the Euclidean algorithm and the Platonic solids

Fuck your garbage irrelevant philosophy and pic related please. Also learn how to read other languages or just an hero already.

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Thanks, I'll look into this.

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Not a small or light read (I personally haven't even finished it completely, I skipped some chapters)

But a very thorough read on why the Roman Empire fell

its a real banger

It's probably heavily referencing/relying on Pythagorean or other popular philosophies and terminologies which have mostly been lost to time. Mostly untranslatable today.

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That painting gets me every time.

What's it about?

Looks interesting, thanks faggot

Muh justice. When you thought Plato was a based as fuck philosopher but he turned out to be a bedora dippin social justice warrior. What a let down.

Massive redpill coming through

Highly recommended! Perhaps the best book I've ever read in my entire life!

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What points does it explore? Might read

Also is pic related worth a read for a socially anxious fag?

Nice b8 m8

Masterpiece among books.

Shart in mart

You've got to be kidding.

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Your mother will in a month if you don't read this red-pilled book by then.

GoT is pretty good, but I'd say ASoS is the best of the series.

There is an extremely large dip in quality in AFFC and ADWD though

Besides you don't know the accessibility that user has to other Fantasy literature in Ukraine; maybe it is the best book he's read.

>Tfw you will never get to climb the steps of the ancient Roman senate

Did you crack a little dumbass smile as you looked through your saved photos and uploaded this?

Go to Rome, you can visit the Curia Julia which is one of the buildings the Senate met in.

I had the same problem .

Yes, yes I did.

why do stoics write the best shit?

stoicism is the best choice, isnt it

recomending this

baseado compatriota

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Black Swan is the best rec for someone who has no idea who Taleb is or what he talks about

What do you guys think about Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes? Is it worth the read if I lean libertarian? I know Hobbes was a person of authoritarian views.

I see it praised everywhere so probably yes, but I haven't read it myself yet.

*selections of

absolutely, read it twice or thrice at least

anything not pictured is worthless

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>not 1984

regardless of your leaning, if you want to be serious about politics, thats absolutely essential reading

This book gave me fuel to fight off lefties through my entire high school career. It's a solid, solid read.

This is a good one.

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>unironically reading the tractatus

embarassing senpai

these two books changed my life forever. literally would be a degenerate loser if I hadn't read them

It pretty much establishes Anarcho-Capitalism > Monarchy > Democracy in the first chapters while explaining and summarizing the principles of human action and private property-based, natural rights-based AnCapism. Then it's a construction of his thesis built upon 100% private property anarchy while comparing Monarchs to the "private owners" of Kingdoms (and thus making parallels with higher quality of life and whatnot). He completely BTFOs leftists, open border advocates, the "le we can have open borders without welfare state" delusional libertarians, and openly advocates the expulsion of democrats, communists, socialists and other "human trash" (this is the expression he uses; the M A D M A N) from society. It's fucking brilliant, especially if you read it in his voice and picture his mannerisms in your head.

Noice. I'll give it a read. Currently reading The Ethics of Liberty and Democracy by based Rothbard and HHH

PIHKAL: A Chemical Love Story by Alexander Shulgin
TIHKAL: The Continuation by Alexander Shulgin
The Serpent and the Rainbow by Wade Davis
The Wrong Way Home: Uncovering the Patterns of Cult Behavior in American Society by Arthur Deikman MD
Fourier Series and Integrals by Dym & McKean
Calculus, Early Transcendentals by Briggs & Cochran
Calculus, Early Transcendentals by Stewart
Physics for Scientists and Engineers by Serway
Introduction to Fluid Dynamics by G.K. Batchelor
A Mathematical Introduction to Fluid Mechanics by Chorin and Marsden
Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics by Veersteg
Vorticity and Incompressible Flow by Majda and Bertozzi
The Casimir Effect by Kimball A. Milton
Advances in the Casimir Effect by Umar Mohideen, Galina Leonidovna Klimchitskaya, Michael Bordag

DESU physics, math and chem should be mandatory

just a good book.....to much ancient philosophy around here

>Not training yourself to become a master strategist and tactician

continuing on the history theme

absolutely, utterly essential reading right here.
Just remember to not take everything literally.

For Philosophy I would say Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling.
For Fiction I would say pretty much all of Dostoevsky, Jorge Luis Borges' short stories, Robert Graves' I, Claudius, The Master and Margarita.
Reading Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow and not sure how I feel about it. Just got to a part where the main character has sex with a minor and had to take a break.

If anyone wants a hard copy of this, Amazon is selling the paperback for one dollar today on sale (free prime shipping too)

Art of War is meh tier at best desu senpai

On War by Karl von Clausewitz

Sup Forums approved synopsis of keep the aspidistra flying

middle-class anglo-saxon gordon comstock declares war on money, quits copywriting job at (((advertising agency))), becomes a dirty NEET, and loses his friends/girlfriend. then she gets pregnant and orwell traditionally doesn't write about sex so the story ends

*unsheathes katana*

lolita is one of the best books I ever read twice

Great book!

It doesn't even matter how hard you try

Keep that in mind

I designed this rhyme to explain in due time

All

I

Know

Time is a valuable thing

Watch it countdown as the pendulum swings

Watch it countdown to the end of the day

The clock ticks life away, it's

So

Un

Real

Didn't look out below

Watch the time go right out the window

Trying to hold on but didn't even know

I wasted it all just to

Watch

You

Go

I kept everything inside and even though I tried, it all fell apart

What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of the time when...

I TRIED SO HARD

AND GOT SO FAAAAAAAAAR

BUT IN THE EEEEEEEND

IT DOESN'T EVEN MAAAAATTEEEEERRRRR

I HAD TO FAAAAALLLLLLL

TO LOOOOSSSEEE IT AAAAAAALLLLL

BUT IN THE EEEEEND

IT DOESN'T EVEN MAAATTEEE-EEE-EEEE-EEE-EEE-ERRRRRRRRR

Fuck Penguin

books are for faggots

hello new russia

hello new mexico

m8 don't be a hipster. Let's be honest, Carl von Clausewitz was probably inspired by the Art of War.

Laugh now, but one day we shall meet on the field of battle. Who will be laughing then?

Is this still relevant? I know it's *the* book on the fall of Rome, but I've heard it's outdated due to new evidence and Gibbons own bias.

Or is this just new academics being marxist cunts?

>foucault

nah

Most of the Great Books of the Western World list are worth reading. Add to that the Bible and you have the most important and necessary books.

do you know Moldbug?

I would rec Thomas Carlyle too, and also Burke particularly his writings in the French Revolution

Also Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America. absolutely essential reading

And the Qu'ran

Immediately started rapping it.

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IT WILL NEVER GET OLD

WE HAVE A FUCKING SHITLOAD OF BOOKS YOU NEED TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IN THE BOOK PACKS.


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What is some good reading material for raising a family? I don't want the leftist dogshit that's peddled here alongside 32 genders.

Speak to your parents or grandparents

Mandatory read, it's even more interesting you follow it up with the Sophist and Statesman and then Aristotle's Politics.

You can read the entire thing here:

classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.mb.txt

It's amazing how wise people long ago were and how stupid we all are nowadays.