Who is your favorite (leftist) philosopher and why? Which of his work do you recommend?
I personally like stirner and his ego and his own, or Nietzsche and Thus Spoke Zarathustra, but it's not really left wing
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Jeremiah Reyes
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Thomas Ross
Recommend books to someone who's never read any philosophical work.
Eli Williams
Leibniz
Austin Scott
My favorite political philosopher is Hobbes, although he’s not at all a leftist
He articulates the necessity of the state and btfos the anarkiddies
Logan Gonzalez
Hobbes would support Leftist authoritarians if they came into power. The only reason to like Hobbes is his proto-materialism,which is extremely refreshing compared to other liberal enlightenment political philosophers like Locke or Rousseau.
Carson Bell
Euthyphro by Plato.
It is short, easy to understand, humorous and should give you the grounding necessary to move onto the other works of Plato.
Just make sure that you ignore all of the agnostic brainlets and give Republic a wide berth until you are comfortable with the concept of the Forms.
Jeremiah Murphy
Epistemology/Metaphysics: Thaetetus, Phaedo, Discourse on the Method, Meditations on first philosophy, Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Monadology, Principles of Human Knowledge, Enquiry concerning human understanding, Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics, Critique of Pure Reason
If you want to skip antiquity, you can.
I would do some more lists for ethics, aesthetics, etc., but I'm tired and in any case all of the authors of those works listed wrote about one or the other, so just explore their other writings.
Xavier Bennett
Not leftist, but Kant.
Brandon Gutierrez
Plato being left, ha.
Owen Green
When did I ever claim that Plato was left wing, Ameri-mutt?
He is the natural starting point for western philosophy and I was recommending his most approachable work.
Lincoln Stewart
seconding this. This is basic philosophy you would be guided through more or less skillfully in any university. Once you get through there, in chronological time you are approaching the French revolution and from there you have to visit Hegel. Going back in time, I'd recommend Dao De Ching and Aristotle's Metaphysics.
Charles Taylor
While I'm here posting, I've found that I've not been able to understand the Greeks to my satisfaction for want of reading and understanding their language, or at least their main terms, so I can understand it in its own terms and not English. I understand some like hypokeimenon and phenomenon but it's just not enough. Any resources or tips?
Josiah Parker
"The Ego and Its Own" by Max Stirner.
Zachary Green
Aristotle, Plato, Hegel, Marx, and Bookchin.
Bentley Peterson
Hobbes would support existing Leftist authoritarian regimes that were already in power, but not new revolutionary ones
he is anti-revolution
Benjamin Hernandez
I like this autistic faggot.
Jason Hughes
hegel and fichte
Juan Sanders
The OG
Michael Robinson
He looks like serial killer
Nathaniel White
Zizek
Benjamin Moore
Not that user, but "Critique of Pure Reason" is interesting even if you don't agree with his ethics. Though I wish he had time to learn how to write more intelligibly.
Sebastian White
Epicurus, duh. Even some YouTube channels I've seen have acknowledged his influence on Marx.
That said, I'm a total philistine regarding literature on him.
Wyatt Parker
Zeno >>> Epicurus
Camden Nelson
Buddha
His philosophy is highly applicable to day to day life and practicing meditation and mindfulness has greatly improved my life. Dont know whether he would be considered leftist or apolitical though.
Alexander Morris
are stirnerites just libertarians?
Gabriel Jenkins
Marx.
It wasn't until I read him that the world started making sense.
Julian Gonzalez
wasn't he a proto-liberal?
Alexander Russell
libertarians are spooked on sacred property rights and sanctity of contract (when removing state from equation only some serious spooky shit could ever enforce it)
Jack Hill
Am I the only one who thinks antiquity is grossly overrated and if we erased entirety of pre-modern history nothing of value would be lost?
Aiden Jackson
Not at all.
In-fact many pseudo-intellectual dregs, black nationalists and lazy theology/philosophy students would agree with you.
That does not make you correct however.
Luis Brooks
Marx wrote his doctoral thesis on Epicurean philosophy.
Dominic Bell
Heidegger, one of the smartest thinkers in history, arguably btfo'd 2400 years of philosophy. If you want to understand 20th century philosophy you have to listen and re-listen to two semeters on him, read 5 introductory books on him, and then read an academic companion while you read him.
Charles Jackson
Don't forget to take a daily walk outside
Cooper Mitchell
Well, he had specific terms for when a revolution would be justified.
Like, when a government violates its own social contract with its subjects (i.e its own laws) then revolt would be just.
Sebastian Garcia
b8
Isaiah White
me
Levi Perez
My man
James Brooks
yes
nope, that's locke iirc
John Green
Novatore is pretty dope. He advocates revolution from an egoist perspective, and writes really flowery but enjoyable prose. Too bad he died in a shootout with cops before he could write more.
unironically the Unabomber's manifesto
Josiah Lee
jean-jacques rousseau.
i recommend everything he wrote. personally, i consider him more important than marx.
Andrew Johnson
Pyrrho, Heraclitus, Parmenides are the big ones in Ancient Times for me. Spinoza and Hume are pretty dank, love me that critique of causality. In modern times the greats are Debord and Baudrillard.
Books: for Pyrrho you have to read Outlines of Pyyrhonism by Sextus Empiricus. sciacchitano.it
For Heraclitus there's just fragments: en.wikisource.org
Parmenides has a Plato dialog about him classics.mit.edu
Spinoza I would read the treatise over the ethics: yesselman.com
Hume I would read book one of his Treatise where he breaks down why causality is retarded gutenberg.org
Debord you have to read the Comments on Society of the Spectacle, it's way better: notbored.org
Baudrillard is the GOAT so you have to read all his shit unfortunately. Just kidding I would go with the spirit of terrorism (monoskop.org
Luke Hall
Will Comments make sense without having read the original
Jaxon Perez
Do you recommend reading society of the spectacle before, after "comments on" or none at all?
I've read about Baudrillard's theories in simulation and simulacra, but haven't actually read the book. I find them very interesting and in many ways do fit what we see in real life, plus being very cyberpunk and futuristic in general. I was planning on reading it soon. Any reason why you like the ones you mention more than his popular "simulation and simulacra" book?
Dylan Scott
and Hobbes
Anthony Diaz
Schopenhauer, Wittgenstein, Searle, Quine, Russell, Moore, Ayer, Kripke, Diogenes, Kant, Hume, Upham, Church… oh and Buddha is fairly lefty and his teachings are #lit (esp Theravada and Zen)
zizek is NOT a philosopher
Jacob Johnson
Hobbes was explicitly against any right to revolution iirc. He was writing in reaction to the English Civil war, and supported the catholic royalists.
Henry Jones
Little Emile Cioran, he may be a mistic but his prose is unmatched
Samuel Reed
yes he basically said it was only justifiable when the state murders its citizens (so really liberals / statists ought to love #BLM more than they already do)
Gavin Sanchez
Hobbes I think is the most formidable enemy of anarchists
Cameron Turner
cynics > stoics > epicureans
David Ramirez
you know, just ´coz anarchists still can´t figure out a world without states
Luis Bennett
Ayn Rand
Joseph Adams
yeah
Jacob White
Hobbes was a genius. It's hard to believe that he was an anglo.
Ethan Torres
It´s a nice effort lad but do you expect me to read all that now? On a Friday after work? Let us chill
Adam Powell
D&G
Dominic Hill
if you already read your daily quota of Hobbes today, then you are exempt
Carter Martinez
He's really a pleasure to read. Some of his ideas are a bit rotten but there's no denying that he was a great philosopher and deserves more respect.
Gabriel Lewis
That better not be Deleuze and Guattari or I will see your body 'without organs', antiphilosopher
Hunter Carter
this, D/G are mystics, not fucking philosophers.
Charles Collins
D&G aren't mystics, I've found that mystical works often have a lot of very useful advice once you strip out the obfuscatory language and idealist philosophy. If you stripped that stuff out of D&G you'd be left with nothing because their work is terminally devoid of an actual point.
Dominic Nguyen
">Who is your favorite (leftist) philosopher"
He asked specifically for leftists philosophers.
Thats why the other guy said "plato being left. ha".
Do you understand it now?
I could try to explain it on an even more simple and basic manner if you'd like.
I know reading is hard for you leftists.
Owen Murphy
kindly kys you'reself tbqh.
Wyatt James
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