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Recommended reading?

ТyILAB18:39, 10 September 2012

I would start with The Myth of SisyphusWikipedia for Absurdism in its raw form, then move onto Camus' fiction like The Stranger (novel)Wikipedia. Actually, if you have nothing to do one day, you can get through a good bit of Camus' body of work in that time -- his stuff is pretty short. Absurdism is an offshoot of existentialism, so you can move into stuff like Sartre if you want to go even deeper down the rabbit-hole. And then the "proto-existentialists" like Nietzsche and Kierkegaard (Warning: The latter may contain theistic ingredients).

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)23:16, 10 September 2012

I suppose the uni library has those somewhere.

ТyILAB23:33, 10 September 2012

Then when you're done with that, he'll hit you over the head with Wittgenstein.

Scarlet A.pngbominationModerator23:54, 10 September 2012

True. And then after that I might recommend some of the more recent philosophers of mind (Hofstadter, Dennett, etc.) if only because some of the existentialists' take on consciousness was a bit loopy in places. Check out Sartre's late-career attempt at psychotherapy -- actually, no, just don't bother with that quackery.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)00:15, 11 September 2012

Today was philosophy day in Education class. Sartre got a brief mention, but the meat of the class we Thomas Aquinas and Neothomatism (sp?)

ТyILAB00:17, 11 September 2012

Ah, neo-tomatoism, yummy. I think you mean neo-thomism. ;)

Haven't read Aquinas in a long time. Too much Aristotle and god in there for me.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)00:24, 11 September 2012
 

"Hit on the head with Wittgenstien then rogered up the anus by Hofstadter" has such a good ring to it.

Scarlet A.pngmoralModerator01:26, 11 September 2012

Pardon me for being a rube, but Wittgenstien sounds like a beer and Hofstadter sounds like a sausage. And now you've made me hungry.

Star of David.png Radioactive afikomen Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments.01:29, 11 September 2012

Well that's an image that won't leave me.

Scarlet A.pngd hominemModerator11:25, 11 September 2012
 
 
 

Gives me something to do other than watch some low budget Canadian horror movie about something that steals vacationing professor's shoes.

ТyILAB00:16, 11 September 2012

I dunno, sounds like some good MST3k material.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)00:24, 11 September 2012

Sound quality is terrible. I may watch a killer gorilla movie instead.

ТyILAB00:29, 11 September 2012

Why do you even pick up these movies?

Star of David.png Radioactive afikomen Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments.00:51, 11 September 2012

300 movies for 15 bucks, even is a few are repeats, is pretty good.

ТyILAB00:59, 11 September 2012

Some "good deals" leave you worse off.

Star of David.png Radioactive afikomen Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments.01:03, 11 September 2012

Horriblemovies.jpg To be fair, The Creeper would probably be a lot better if I could make out just what the hell the people are saying.

ТyILAB01:17, 11 September 2012