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Which topics would you like to be more informed about?

That’s an excellent question.

I want to deepen my knowledge of philosophy, which, together with literature, is my big love. I read a lot of philosophy in combination with different literary movements, movements like the German Enlightenment, Romanticism, Modernism, and Post-Modernism. This means I read philosophers like Immanuel Kant, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Rousseau, Alexander and Wilhelm von Humboldt, David Hume, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Herbert Marcuse, Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Jürgen Habermas, and the ancient philosophers Plato and Aristotle. This is a lot of Western philosophy, but I would like to extensively enhance my knowledge of Eastern philosophy—the philosophy of Asian countries like India, Korea, Japan, and China. I believe that philosophy makes you understand life more accessible from different points of view. Moreover, it helps you to deepen and express your creativity more significantly.  Combining Western and Eastern philosophy would give you the chance to see and experience life in an absolute spiritual way without boundaries and continue in the creation of a universal expression of art.

So, I would be deeply grateful if you could share your recommendations about specific philosophers and books with me. Please feel free to write in the comments.

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11 responses to “Spirit of Philosophy”

  1. marvellousnightmare Avatar
    marvellousnightmare

    I’m very impressed by your reading collection, and I agree that philosophy helps us to exceed our boundaries and develop our worldview!
    Nonetheless, I also believe that we should not only read and agree, but also oppose and rebel against the authors (even widely recognized) once in a while, and think independently. (This doesn’t mean you don’t, of course! I’m just eager to share my stance with you, seeing the level of your education on this point).
    The best thing is learning more through the books of philosophers while still thinking with your own mind.
    I was deeply delighted by reading your reply to this prompt 🙂

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    1. papadosshortstories Avatar
      papadosshortstories

      Thank you so much for the kind words. And yes, you are right. We don’t have to agree with everything one says, even with well-recognized philosophers. We can win new and different insights through thesis-antithesis and the discourse. 🙂

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  2. Stephanie Avatar
    Stephanie

    Great post. I’m interested in Phenomenology, so maybe I’d suggest Merleau-Ponty or Husserl.

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    1. papadosshortstories Avatar
      papadosshortstories

      Thank you for the tip.😊🙏
      I’ve read Martin Heidegger’s “Being and Time” The theories of Husserl somehow influenced that book as Husserl was Heidegger’s teacher.

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      1. Stephanie Avatar
        Stephanie

        I read through that, but not with the attention it deserved at the time. Perhaps because I didn’t have a deep enough foundation yet.

        On another comment you asked about Buddhist texts and I was thinking you might like to read David Hinton!
        https://www.davidhinton.net/

        He focuses a lot on Chinese poetry, but in that, there is so much Daoist and Buddhist knowledge as well.

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  3. papadosshortstories Avatar
    papadosshortstories

    Heidegger is difficult to read, I had to read the book twice🥴
    Thank you very much for the further information☺️🙏 ❤️

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    1. Daedalus Lex Avatar
      Daedalus Lex

      Heidegger’s B&T inspired this 4-line poem:
      I read it in German.
      I read it in English.
      I read part of it in French.
      I still don’t know what he’s talking about.

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      1. papadosshortstories Avatar
        papadosshortstories

        I’ve read the original version in German two times. I somehow got the meaning the second time, but to understand it completely, I must read it a 3rd time. I should mention German is my native language. 😂😊

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      2. Daedalus Lex Avatar
        Daedalus Lex

        Interesting. And I finally understood Kant by reading him backwards. I.e., I’d get to page 10 and sense an inkling of understanding, then go back to p. 9 so I could understand p. 10, but then I had to go back to p. 8 to understand p. 9, etc. Rinse and repeat. But it worked! At least I sort of understand Kant now!

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      3. papadosshortstories Avatar
        papadosshortstories

        😊👍

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  4. bennydonalds3 Avatar
    bennydonalds3

    I enjoyed a book called “Why Buddhism is Right” by Robin Wright. He promotes a secular Buddhism that is more interested in the scientifically proven parts than the concepts inherited from Hinduism. My actual introduction to Buddhism was “Living Buddha, Living Christ,” by Thich Nhat Hanh, a Vietnamese monk. Two other really cool books I read in the last couple of years were “The Cave and the Light” by Arthur Herman about the interplay between the philosophies of Plato and Aristotle through history and “Greek Buddha” by Christopher Beckwith about the interactions between Buddhist and Greek philosophy in Central Asia.

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