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I'm not much of a reader.

It could change in the future but this far..


1. The Fall by Albert Camus
2. The stranger by Albert Camus
3. Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre

There's also a book written by a professor in the university of Hargeisa that has a special place in my bookshelf.

I cant really decide, so in that vein:



Also:



Not very well-known at all. Nonetheless, it had a profound effect on me. It's thinner than most classics, but so much psychology is involved that I truly learnt a lot. It also references Muslims in Russia, which shows just how old these Muslim communities are in Kosovo, Chechnya and the remaining parts of the old USSR.

Xildiiid wrote:It could change in the future but this far..


1. The Fall by Albert Camus
2. The stranger by Albert Camus
3. Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre

There's also a book written by a professor in the university of Hargeisa that has a special place in my bookshelf.

I forgot my other favourite.

1984

LiquidHYDROGEN wrote:

Xildiiid wrote:It could change in the future but this far..


1. The Fall by Albert Camus
2. The stranger by Albert Camus
3. Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre

There's also a book written by a professor in the university of Hargeisa that has a special place in my bookshelf.

I forgot my other favourite.

For a guy who's barely ever read anything but uni text books. Can you give me a guided plan to even grasp the philosophy involved in Aristotles Nicomachean Ethics?

Aristotle's works are as foreign to me as they are to you. I have never read them, oddly enough. I want to get some of his works as well, mostly the Poetics, Politics and the Art of Rhetoric. I've heard he isn't as poetic or literary as Plato who tends to use a lot of rich mythology, allegories and symbolism. He's more of a practical philosopher/social scientist. I would suggest you read the works of Plato first to better understand Aristotle's viewS on ethics - particularly Plato's view that the unexamined life is not worth living which I think reflect the Nichomachean ethics quite will.

LiquidHYDROGEN wrote:Aristotle's works are as foreign to me as they are to you. I have never read them, oddly enough. I want to get some of his works as well, mostly the Poetics, Politics and the Art of Rhetoric. I've heard he isn't as poetic or literary as Plato who tends to use a lot of rich mythology, allegories and symbolism. He's more of a practical philosopher/social scientist. I would suggest you read the works of Plato first to better understand Aristotle's viewS on ethics - particularly Plato's view that the unexamined life is not worth living which I think reflect the Nichomachean ethics quite will.

Exactly why I wanted to pick up his works. The quote that got me is...

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle

Jeffo wrote:
Exactly why I wanted to pick up his works. The quote that got me is...

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle

That's not actually a quote. Aristotle never wrote that. It's a historian's paraphrasing. The actual quote is: "These virtues are formed in a man by his doing the actions."

LiquidHYDROGEN wrote:

Jeffo wrote:
Exactly why I wanted to pick up his works. The quote that got me is...

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle

That's not actually a quote. Aristotle never wrote that. It's a historian's paraphrasing. The actual quote is: "These virtues are formed in a man by his doing the actions."

That's even better.

Time to learn the virtues he was talking about

Thanks a lot bro.

YummyMummy wrote:I cant really decide, so in that vein:

I didn't think that I would enjoy it, but I really did.