The black swan, Montaigne Les Essias, An inquiry concerning the principles of morals, Letters of a Stoic, Propaganda, The public mind of mankind, The Genealogy of Morals
I just recently came to know about your channel and this is the 1st video I’ve watched. I have a question there is so many books you have read but tell me honestly out of learnings from so many books what learnings you applied in your life to make your life better. There is no use to read unless you know how to apply the same in practical life. Without applying bookish knowledge and gain valuable experience all books are just like story books. 📚
I started reading the Blackwell Companion to Buddhist Philosophy recently and I think it's kind of interesting (though, I'm not trying to convert you obviously). It starts with the history of different Buddhist schools and the discrepancies between different sects that formed throughout history and in different regions, but later goes more into different metaphysical and philosophy of mind topics that pop up in different Buddhist texts (like the existence or non-existence of the self, the empty nature of objects, etc.) I thought it was kind of interesting because the beliefs can vary quite widely by school (with Theraveda being much more about self-cultivation and Pure Land Mahayana being more like a Theistic religion, where instead of destroying one's ego, one places it outside of oneself in the form of a figure of admiration).... Anyways... Another book I'd recommend to you would be The Sociology of Philosophy by Randall Collins, since it kind of traces the historical and geographic progression of different schools of thought. I kind of only skimmed it due to time (since it's a pretty long book), but I'll likely circle back around to it one day. As an offshoot, the previous book was recommended to me by the Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Methodology (one of the first chapters makes a point about how you often see the philosophy of science, philosophy of math, philosophy of psychology, or the philosophy of economics, but you hardly see the economics of philosophy or the psychology of philosophy, yet they can still be valid topics to be studied). The last book has a HUGE price point though, and I'd only recommend the other two with any kind of seriousness. Had I not snagged the book at a good price, I probably wouldn't have read it.
@@IdeasInHat Özetle şöyle diyor kısaca In his 2010 work, The Grand Design, Stephen Hawking, argues that ‘… philosophy is dead’ (2010: 5). While not a Philosopher, Hawking provides strong argument for his thesis, principally that philosophers have not taken science sufficiently seriously and so Philosophy is no longer relevant to knowledge claims. “Most of us don’t worry about these questions most of the time. But almost all of us must sometimes wonder: Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead,” he said. “Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.” Prof Hawking went on to claim that “Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.” He said new theories “lead us to a new and very different picture of the universe and our place in it”.
@@baran4950 It is interesting and he is correct, but I don't hold a strong distinction between science and philosophy. Everyone is a philosophers. Some people just test the mechanics of reality and base their ideas off of that, while others use imagination.
Thank you again for all your recommandation! I recently bought 4 history book from one of your video! I was wondering ihow you usually approach history books, do you accept the fact that you will obviously not remember everything, or do you read it slowly taking notes etc ( I started to read few weeks ago ) Thank you again!
@@darimarchino7787 I forget, yes. However, I do try to use flow charts or graphs that show main figures, what they did, and when they were around. Also background events are useful to know. Usually an AI can make them, but you can also create them as you read.
Looks like some interesting books. I'm reading about 20 right now lol. A mixture of classics and philosophy. Still studying Latin and it's coming along fairly well. I'm hoping soon to be writing a Latin essay! Lol. Sounds like you had a fun time reading Freud haha. I still haven't read him. I'm going through Sartre right now and that's been pretty stimulating. I wouldn't call him the most outstanding philosopher I've read. I'm not a fan of the whole negation revealing to us the throes of life and our livelihoods. I prefer something more affirmative like Emerson or Thoreau or even someone like Diogenes, haha. Anyways, enjoyed the vid!
@@scoutdarpy4465 I cannot tolerate Sarte's writing style. I tried, it hurts my head. How are you dealing with his writing style? Twenty books is anxiety inducing haha.
@@IdeasInHat I got the standard translation for it, and I'd say that it's not too bad. He is a bit long winded, but a lot of existentialists are haha. He's not as poetic as say Camus, but he does approach his style pretty sternly and with intent.
I just recently came to know about your channel and this is the 1st video I’ve watched. I have a question there is so many books you have read but tell me honestly out of learnings from so many books what learnings you applied in your life to make your life better. There is no use to read unless you know how to apply the same in practical life. Without applying bookish knowledge and gain valuable experience all books are just like story books. 📚
That is just your point of view. You think that something must be applied in a practical sense for it be valuable. But this is not objectively true. Other people may think that learning about the world, about our nature and truth, is desirable by itself. Also, you seem to expect clear and strict skills, that one might learn by reading philosophy or history books. You learn so much in books like these, but not one special thing, like driving a bike. What you learn is on a broader scope. Maybe you should read for yourself and see what it does - just not with the mindset that you want to get rich or good in one specific action (but it may be helpful)
First of tell me what is true meaning of learning for you? I strongly believe if someone know how to apply what he or she learned to make their and others life better it means he is skilled not narrow minded. This is what I want to learn and searching for it. You are right that some people read to know about truth and about world. But you are forgetting that knowledge is tool and there is no use of it if you can’t use it. Books are meant for providing education not feeding information in our memory for name sake.
Whatever your views are I completely respect that but I'm just curious. No worries if I might have to search a religious channel for this but do you own a Bible? I'm looking into getting an ESV rather than KJV to keep the texts simple although I'm not new to it at all. I've always attended with my grandparents every time I've visited but now want to study it even further. My second topic interest is Stoic Philosophy so I truly appreciate your content. I'm still young being in my middle 30's so plenty of time to read many more books. Thanks for reviving some of my passion for reading.
Thanks for sharing! Yeah, reading non-fiction has always been important to me. I feel my mind is more cultivated than others because of it. So, it is definitely a good habit to keep from your 30s to your 70s! I am not religious, but I am also not against religion. I am a skeptic, mostly. I do own a Koran, and a Bible. My bible is king james. I tend to prefer Christian theology more than the bible though. I love the early church fathers and the philokalia is extremely interesting. If you like stoic philosophy, you would love the philokalia, the 5 volumes are filled with advice on how to live your life aesthetically. I always found there is not enough writing on stoic philosophy, and what is out there already is often repetitive. But I do like stoic philosophy as well.
what should I read next?
You want suggestions of any book, or you want suggestions about which of your books you should read first?
@@steinh04 any book. I like reading what everyone recommends.
The black swan, Montaigne Les Essias, An inquiry concerning the principles of morals,
Letters of a Stoic, Propaganda, The public mind of mankind, The Genealogy of Morals
I just recently came to know about your channel and this is the 1st video I’ve watched. I have a question there is so many books you have read but tell me honestly out of learnings from so many books what learnings you applied in your life to make your life better. There is no use to read unless you know how to apply the same in practical life. Without applying bookish knowledge and gain valuable experience all books are just like story books. 📚
@@Rahul-zm1qp if you search my channel, you will find videos on that exact topic!
I started reading the Blackwell Companion to Buddhist Philosophy recently and I think it's kind of interesting (though, I'm not trying to convert you obviously). It starts with the history of different Buddhist schools and the discrepancies between different sects that formed throughout history and in different regions, but later goes more into different metaphysical and philosophy of mind topics that pop up in different Buddhist texts (like the existence or non-existence of the self, the empty nature of objects, etc.) I thought it was kind of interesting because the beliefs can vary quite widely by school (with Theraveda being much more about self-cultivation and Pure Land Mahayana being more like a Theistic religion, where instead of destroying one's ego, one places it outside of oneself in the form of a figure of admiration)....
Anyways...
Another book I'd recommend to you would be The Sociology of Philosophy by Randall Collins, since it kind of traces the historical and geographic progression of different schools of thought. I kind of only skimmed it due to time (since it's a pretty long book), but I'll likely circle back around to it one day.
As an offshoot, the previous book was recommended to me by the Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Methodology (one of the first chapters makes a point about how you often see the philosophy of science, philosophy of math, philosophy of psychology, or the philosophy of economics, but you hardly see the economics of philosophy or the psychology of philosophy, yet they can still be valid topics to be studied).
The last book has a HUGE price point though, and I'd only recommend the other two with any kind of seriousness. Had I not snagged the book at a good price, I probably wouldn't have read it.
@@SubjectivelyTrue wow those all sound fun. I will particularly look up the buddbist book. I am obsessed with blackwell companions.
Hi Jordan
You can also check out the Big Ideas simply explained books series.
You would love them.
Stephen Hawkingin felsefe hakkında fikirlerini nasıl değerlendiriyorsunuz abi
Which ideas in specific? I cannot say I am deeply familiar with his writings.
@@IdeasInHat
Özetle şöyle diyor kısaca
In his 2010 work, The Grand Design, Stephen Hawking, argues that ‘… philosophy is dead’ (2010: 5). While not a Philosopher, Hawking provides strong argument for his thesis, principally that philosophers have not taken science sufficiently seriously and so Philosophy is no longer relevant to knowledge claims.
“Most of us don’t worry about these questions most of the time. But almost all of us must sometimes wonder: Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead,” he said. “Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.”
Prof Hawking went on to claim that “Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.” He said new theories “lead us to a new and very different picture of the universe and our place in it”.
@@baran4950 It is interesting and he is correct, but I don't hold a strong distinction between science and philosophy.
Everyone is a philosophers. Some people just test the mechanics of reality and base their ideas off of that, while others use imagination.
Thank you again for all your recommandation! I recently bought 4 history book from one of your video! I was wondering ihow you usually approach history books, do you accept the fact that you will obviously not remember everything, or do you read it slowly taking notes etc ( I started to read few weeks ago ) Thank you again!
@@darimarchino7787 I forget, yes. However, I do try to use flow charts or graphs that show main figures, what they did, and when they were around. Also background events are useful to know.
Usually an AI can make them, but you can also create them as you read.
Looks like some interesting books. I'm reading about 20 right now lol. A mixture of classics and philosophy. Still studying Latin and it's coming along fairly well. I'm hoping soon to be writing a Latin essay! Lol. Sounds like you had a fun time reading Freud haha. I still haven't read him.
I'm going through Sartre right now and that's been pretty stimulating. I wouldn't call him the most outstanding philosopher I've read. I'm not a fan of the whole negation revealing to us the throes of life and our livelihoods. I prefer something more affirmative like Emerson or Thoreau or even someone like Diogenes, haha.
Anyways, enjoyed the vid!
@@scoutdarpy4465 I cannot tolerate Sarte's writing style. I tried, it hurts my head. How are you dealing with his writing style?
Twenty books is anxiety inducing haha.
@@IdeasInHat I got the standard translation for it, and I'd say that it's not too bad. He is a bit long winded, but a lot of existentialists are haha. He's not as poetic as say Camus, but he does approach his style pretty sternly and with intent.
I just recently came to know about your channel and this is the 1st video I’ve watched. I have a question there is so many books you have read but tell me honestly out of learnings from so many books what learnings you applied in your life to make your life better. There is no use to read unless you know how to apply the same in practical life. Without applying bookish knowledge and gain valuable experience all books are just like story books. 📚
That is just your point of view. You think that something must be applied in a practical sense for it be valuable. But this is not objectively true. Other people may think that learning about the world, about our nature and truth, is desirable by itself. Also, you seem to expect clear and strict skills, that one might learn by reading philosophy or history books. You learn so much in books like these, but not one special thing, like driving a bike. What you learn is on a broader scope. Maybe you should read for yourself and see what it does - just not with the mindset that you want to get rich or good in one specific action (but it may be helpful)
First of tell me what is true meaning of learning for you? I strongly believe if someone know how to apply what he or she learned to make their and others life better it means he is skilled not narrow minded. This is what I want to learn and searching for it.
You are right that some people read to know about truth and about world. But you are forgetting that knowledge is tool and there is no use of it if you can’t use it. Books are meant for providing education not feeding information in our memory for name sake.
@@Rahul-zm1qp reading for leisure or entertainment is very popular.
Whatever your views are I completely respect that but I'm just curious. No worries if I might have to search a religious channel for this but do you own a Bible? I'm looking into getting an ESV rather than KJV to keep the texts simple although I'm not new to it at all. I've always attended with my grandparents every time I've visited but now want to study it even further. My second topic interest is Stoic Philosophy so I truly appreciate your content. I'm still young being in my middle 30's so plenty of time to read many more books. Thanks for reviving some of my passion for reading.
Thanks for sharing!
Yeah, reading non-fiction has always been important to me. I feel my mind is more cultivated than others because of it. So, it is definitely a good habit to keep from your 30s to your 70s!
I am not religious, but I am also not against religion. I am a skeptic, mostly. I do own a Koran, and a Bible. My bible is king james. I tend to prefer Christian theology more than the bible though. I love the early church fathers and the philokalia is extremely interesting. If you like stoic philosophy, you would love the philokalia, the 5 volumes are filled with advice on how to live your life aesthetically.
I always found there is not enough writing on stoic philosophy, and what is out there already is often repetitive. But I do like stoic philosophy as well.
Have u read Marx?
@@Somereasonstolive I have, but not cover to cover. I still need to finish all 3 volumes. But that is a 3 month commitment lol.
@@IdeasInHat What are your thoughts from what uve read?
Chesterton orthodoxy
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