/philosophy/ -Are there any works of philosophy that changed your life or your way of looking at the world, or at least had a significant impact on the two? If so, what were they?

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Anonymous 07/14/15 (Tue) 21:24:13 e8ff34 No.1842

Are there any works of philosophy that changed your life or your way of looking at the world, or at least had a significant impact on the two? If so, what were they?

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Anonymous 07/14/15 (Tue) 23:49:31 e8ff34 No.1843

The concepts of will and representation as exposed by Schopenhauer in his main book.

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Anonymous 07/18/15 (Sat) 23:37:07 e8ff34 No.1852

>>1842

Books:

The Scientific Worldview, G. Borchardt

Capital Vol. 1, K. Marx

The Phenomenology of Spirit, G.W.F. Hegel

General ideas:

Kant's phenomena vs noumena problem

German Idealism's discussion of the problem of the subject/object distinction,the problem of knowledge, and the problem of the "world".

Heraclitus' idea of reality being flux and unity of opposites + Whitehead's process philosophy

Eastern absolute monism: Advaita Vedanta

Kierkegaard's concept of despair and the genuine individual

The concept of absolute presuppositions and their role in metaphysics from R.G.Collingwood

Not all of these are relevant to me anymore, but they certainly caused a big change in my way of thinking over time.

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Anonymous 11/27/17 (Mon) 19:31:40 04517f No.5677

ANY WORKS ON BUMPS?

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Anonymous 11/29/17 (Wed) 03:02:04 0058bc No.5688

>>1842

The Ego and His Own by Stirner despooked me and gave me a radical new destructive creative view on life.

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Anonymous 01/21/18 (Sun) 05:55:25 009f33 No.5720

I dunno most compatiblist writers had an impact on me whether from an agnostic perspective (Hobbes) or religious (Saints Augustine and Aquinas come to mind)

I like Kant's Idealism

Nietszche and Schopenhauer when I'm looking into the void, Kierkegaard to extent too

although I despise almost all Utilitarians, especially Epistemological ones. absolute cancer.

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Anonymous 01/21/18 (Sun) 05:56:35 009f33 No.5721

unpopular opinion: I hate Spinoza.

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Anonymous 04/23/18 (Mon) 07:20:37 13c782 No.6266

Tao Te Ching for sure, also Zhuangzi.. Great balancing influence for atomized western thinking IMO.

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Anonymous 05/03/18 (Thu) 12:19:16 c3852c No.6284

"The fourth way" by P. D. Ouspensky and "Non-violent communication" by Marshall Rosenberg made me realize that I'm living in a society perpetuated by guilt of the past.

Taking responsibility for my own actions without having to justify them or any unintentional discomfort they may cause in others and not letting the successes and failures of my ancestors affect my decision making.

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Anonymous 05/07/18 (Mon) 06:35:24 3e9e77 No.6288

Meditations: Marcus Aurelius

The Analects: Confucius

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