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Recommended Reading List?
ManiacJack
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Posted 08/21/09 - 05:09 PM:
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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:
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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.

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Posted 08/24/09 - 12:20 PM:
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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:
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Very, very, very good suggestions everyone.

Keep 'em coming!
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Posted 08/25/09 - 08:02 PM:
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Bertrand Russell's The Problems of Philosophy
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Posted 08/26/09 - 07:14 AM:
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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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