Let's discuss a book ...

[Eric Cioe]

I'm new here, but I look around and see no threads about specific books. Lots of threads about abstract ideas - abstract even for philosophy - so to mix things up, let's pick a book and talk about it.

Throw out some suggestions. It should probably be something not too obscure, just so that at least a few of us are familiar with it.

[Morten]

The Sickness Unto Death by Søren Kierkegaard.

[Abraxas]

The Genealogy of Morals (selfishly, cause I'm reading it at the moment, ha ha)!

[blp]

The Critique of Pure Reason

[Dori]

On the Improvement of Understanding by Spinoza

[Eric Cioe]

The Sickness Unto Death by Søren Kierkegaard.

This is from the beginning:

"The self is the relation that relates to itself."

Mapped out, I think this looks like: A-^-B The "--" is the relation between A and B, and the "^" is relating to itself.

The question is, what are A and B? Kierkegaard refers to Hegel in the first sentence, and his conception of the inner being the outer and vice versa. So are A and B the inner and the outer? Or is it something else entirely?

[lady_macbeth]

How about lets discuss Daughter of Exile by Isabel Glass

[byquist]

On Bull**** by Harry Frankfurt (Princeton professor). Only 100 pgs.

[islandclimber]

How about we discuss something that is accessible online, I don't really want to have to go buy a philosophy book... Let's discuss Nietszche's "Thus Spake Zarathustra"... what say you all??

[Pseudōnumos]

I second Thus Spoke Zarathustra, a personal favorite of mine, but I'm up for pretty much any of the previous suggestions.

[Pseudōnumos]

Oh ,and I just thought I'd share a quote that I thought was befitting for IslandClimber now that I think of it.

"My contempt and my desire increase together; the higher I climb, the more do I despise him who climbs. What do I want in the heights?"
Thus Spoke Zarathustra

[Dori]

How about we discuss something that is accessible online, I don't really want to have to go buy a philosophy book... Let's discuss Nietszche's "Thus Spake Zarathustra"... what say you all??

I agree (even against my seemingly unpopular nomination). In fact, I own this book and I have yet to read it, so I'm in. :thumbs_up

[islandclimber]

so we should start a thread for it in this section, and then work our way through it... discussing it as we go... rather than just going all over the place right of the bat... which though fun, usually leads to the discussion dissolving within a few days... It works best to read a section, and then post on it, and work our way through the book that way, and then at the end kind of go back over it all, and summarize and discuss any final points and issues..

what do you say??


oh, and great quote Pseudonumos.!! :D

[KK2202]

Hi ,

I am newbie here. I second Thus Spake Zarathustra...And ur idea is really great....so have u started reading !! I will read and try to make a posting....

[Dori]

so we should start a thread for it in this section, and then work our way through it... discussing it as we go... rather than just going all over the place right of the bat... which though fun, usually leads to the discussion dissolving within a few days... It works best to read a section, and then post on it, and work our way through the book that way, and then at the end kind of go back over it all, and summarize and discuss any final points and issues..

what do you say??


oh, and great quote Pseudonumos.!! :D

I agree. :thumbs_up

[Pseudōnumos]

I think it should work out really well that way Island, especially because TSZ is broken up into somewhat short discourses.

The question now lies on who is actually going to take the initiative and start said thread.

I'm excited for the prospects of a sort of philosophical forum book club. :thumbs_up

[Dori]

I think it should work out really well that way Island, especially because TSZ is broken up into somewhat short discourses.

The question now lies on who is actually going to take the initiative and start said thread.

I'm excited for the prospects of a sort of philosophical forum book club. :thumbs_up

I will! :D

[accountansiyot]

lets just discuss thus spake zarathustra...:)