Recommended Reading List?: Philosophy Forums

Recommended Reading List?
Each forum has their own "recommended list"; what are the MUST reads here?

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Recommended Reading List?

ManiacJack
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Posted 08/21/09 - 05:09 PM:	#11
Plato's Dialogs (Learn Greek!) Augustine's Confessions Cusa's On Learned Ignorance (Free is better!) Kepler's Cosmographic Mystery Leibniz's Monadology Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Ogden Translation) Einstein's The World as I see It (make sure it has part 5!) V.I. Vernadsky's The Biosphere And maybe a holy book or two.
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Posted 08/24/09 - 01:04 AM:	#12
I will add to all these: Ode to Grecian urn Saadi - and other Asian poets The Wisdom of Life - Schopenhauer Laotse K?lid?sa Ferdowsi Conversations with Goethe Hume Explore Asian literature, and you will find what you are looking for. Edited by Incision on 08/24/09 - 04:49 PM. Reason: punctuation
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Posted 08/24/09 - 12:20 PM:	#13
In terms of "philosophical fiction," pieces I have had fun with (e.g. in classes, etc.): Bacchae and Medea by Euripides; Caliban upon Setebos by Browning; Othello by Shakespeare (endlessly subjectable to critical theory); The Yellow Wallpaper by Perkins Gilman; Endgame by Beckett; The Waste Land by Eliot, etc. In my opinion, all of these (perhaps) fit the criteria.
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Posted 08/25/09 - 07:17 AM:	#14
Very, very, very good suggestions everyone. Keep 'em coming!

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Posted 08/25/09 - 08:02 PM:	#15
Bertrand Russell's The Problems of Philosophy

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Posted 08/26/09 - 07:14 AM:	#16
keving wrote: Bertrand Russell's The Problems of Philosophy Read this already. Enjoyed it. Thank you everyone for all of the recommendations; always have an open ear for more.

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