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wilbjammin · 11-15-2003, 05:52 PM

Voltaire - "Zadig, or Fate", "Candid", and others - his stories I find to be very enjoyable and easy reads, and yet provide enough substance to give them value

I love everything by Albert Camus, though I'd suggest you read through his notebooks, he has an incredible ability to isolate amazing thoughts in small contained sentences.

Plato - "Symposium" - love is such an important topic for us, and it is really interesting to float through the various perspectives presented in this piece.

Nietzsche is great, as mentioned earlier. I'd like to throw in The Antichrist as a good reading as well.

Simone de Beauvoir - The Second Sex, particularly the excerpts on the "Woman in Love" and all of Part I.

Henry David Thoreau - "Civil Disobedience" and Waldon. I know that I really hated being forced to read these multiple times from high school through my undergraduate classes, but it truly has had a significant effect on my life.

Immanual Kant - learn his "categorical imperatives" from Fundamental Principles from the Metaphysics of Morals - Why? Because it provides quite an interesting perspective that has had a profound effect on Western thought and culture.

Homer - The Illiad and The Odyssey - You have to have the foundations.

I could go on and on and on....

11-15-2003, 05:52 PM	#69 (permalink)
wilbjammin * * *	<b>Voltaire</b> - "Zadig, or Fate", "Candid", and others - his stories I find to be very enjoyable and easy reads, and yet provide enough substance to give them value I love everything by <b>Albert Camus</b>, though I'd suggest you read through his notebooks, he has an incredible ability to isolate amazing thoughts in small contained sentences. <b>Plato</b> - "Symposium" - love is such an important topic for us, and it is really interesting to float through the various perspectives presented in this piece. <b>Nietzsche</b> is great, as mentioned earlier. I'd like to throw in <u>The Antichrist</u> as a good reading as well. <b>Simone de Beauvoir</b> - <u>The Second Sex</u>, particularly the excerpts on the "Woman in Love" and all of Part I. <b>Henry David Thoreau</b> - "Civil Disobedience" and <u>Waldon</u>. I know that I really hated being forced to read these multiple times from high school through my undergraduate classes, but it truly has had a significant effect on my life. <b>Immanual Kant</b> - learn his "categorical imperatives" from <u>Fundamental Principles from the Metaphysics of Morals</u> - Why? Because it provides quite an interesting perspective that has had a profound effect on Western thought and culture. <b>Homer</b> - <u>The Illiad</u> and <u>The Odyssey</u> - You have to have the foundations. I could go on and on and on.... __________________ Innominate.