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03:23 AM on 12/09/08 
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I am sure this thread has been done before, but I can't find it using the search function.

What are some philosophical books that I should check out?

And should I read The Communist Manifesto?
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I am sure this thread has been done before, but I can't find it using the search function.

What are some philosophical books that I should check out?

And should I read The Communist Manifesto?
Yeah definitely read the manifesto. I thought Sartre's No Exit was pretty interesting. It's technically a play, but I really enjoyed it.
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I suggest anything by Michele Foucault.
03:04 PM on 12/12/08 
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Read fucking Schopenhauer.

You haven't read philosophy until you have read that German prick.
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i think a lot of foucault gets redundant, but if you're definitely thinking about philosophy in a political sense, then you should read his Disclipline and Punish.
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The Brothers Karamazov and Calvin and Hobbes (3 Volumes) are the only Philosophical books you need to read. Sarte, Mill and Hume are good for a read, but the above get the point across much more painlessly.
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Kant, Sartre, Nietzsche, Foucalt, Bertolacci, Aristotle, Voltaire.

Probably the order I'd put my favorites in ...
01:17 AM on 12/13/08 
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Since this is Philosophy, and in the education section, I was wondering if anyone's here taken an intro to Philosophy college course, and what it was like. I'm signed up for one right now however I think I might drop and take a theater class instead. That is, unless you guys have very positive things to say about the Philosophy class.
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Kant, Sartre, Nietzsche, Foucalt, Bertolacci, Aristotle, Voltaire.

Probably the order I'd put my favorites in ...
The thing I don't get about Sartre is that if he found life to be so meaningless, why wouldn't he kill himself?
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Since this is Philosophy, and in the education section, I was wondering if anyone's here taken an intro to Philosophy college course, and what it was like. I'm signed up for one right now however I think I might drop and take a theater class instead. That is, unless you guys have very positive things to say about the Philosophy class.
I absolutely loved my Philosophy course this semester. It was an intro but it was one of my favorite classes I've ever taken. I definitely recommend staying in it.
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Since this is Philosophy, and in the education section, I was wondering if anyone's here taken an intro to Philosophy college course, and what it was like. I'm signed up for one right now however I think I might drop and take a theater class instead. That is, unless you guys have very positive things to say about the Philosophy class.

Generally depends on the professor and TA's. I was fortunate to have a good prof and even better TA.
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Since this is Philosophy, and in the education section, I was wondering if anyone's here taken an intro to Philosophy college course, and what it was like. I'm signed up for one right now however I think I might drop and take a theater class instead. That is, unless you guys have very positive things to say about the Philosophy class.

Philosophy is really not for everyone. I reccomend switching courses unless philosophy is genuinely interesting to you, and not to pick it just because. If you are choosing philosophy merely because you didn't think you had anything better to choose, you may really regret it. The fact that you chose it with pessimism leads me to believe that the course is not for you.
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Since this is Philosophy, and in the education section, I was wondering if anyone's here taken an intro to Philosophy college course, and what it was like. I'm signed up for one right now however I think I might drop and take a theater class instead. That is, unless you guys have very positive things to say about the Philosophy class.

well, even if you don't end up liking philosophy, chances are Intro to Philosophy will be really easy, since the material is going to have to be dumbed down so that you can fit a bunch of different subjects that really require their own classes into one. If you do end up liking it, well you'll have a bunch of books to check out. If you don't, well easy class out of the way.
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The thing I don't get about Sartre is that if he found life to be so meaningless, why wouldn't he kill himself?
Life has no meaning the moment you loose the illusion of being eternal.
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The thing I don't get about Sartre is that if he found life to be so meaningless, why wouldn't he kill himself?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_Sisyphus

sartre didn't write it, but it covers that question.



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