Monday August 11 2025
6:45am -- It is my dad's birthday today, 81 yrs old he is, i was glad to see him getting some sleep last night after he watched some gospel music on his computer, been awhile since he's done that, has a calming effect on him.
For me however, i'm ignited by philosophy, i am putting together quite rapidly now a curriculum for myself. Remember how i tried to put on a curriculum a few months ago here?
Greco-Roman resources with Plato and Aristotle being the prime targets with much secondary material being used for them, the domain of History comes next right after the Stoics, and Epicureanism, sadly not much of Epicurus survives, and he wrote voluminously, but it can be paired with that mighty poem of Lucretius, and some figures of the Enlightenment.
There's so many cheap and free collection ebooks out there, one of them i'm using now is called The Enlightenment Collection, which starts with Descartes, i need to read more of him than just that one work of his there.
I'm very rusty on the sequential list of philosophers from Descartes onwards, but there must be
Hobbes -- a fave of Gass is his Leviathan
Spinoza -- his Tract where he critiques the bible, NOT his Ethics, save that for later
Leibniz -- i'm thrilled to have a Delphi for him, i wish to see one for Lessing sometime btw
Kant -- i feel optimistic that in some way i can do what i used to not be able to do.
Hegel -- i remember an esteemed member here recommending his Philosophy of History, and it's way more readable than Phenomenology of Spirit.
Kierkegaard -- one reason to in some way appreciate Hegel is to then get some of the biting humor the melancholy Dane had about him.
Schopenhauer -- i think he misunderstood Hegel, but that's not why i want to eat and digest his thought, it's for his pessimism, and for background for :
Nietzsche -- he's been so esteemed for me for such a long time, my reading of him nowadays is numbed, it's like i heard it all before, getting a lot more out of the Greco-Romans for sure.
Max Stirner -- as a proto-Nietzschean kind of thinker, his major work is one of the few i ever finished, and i loved the experience, i love the daring of it, and then i want to have Karl Marx in The German Ideology convince me that he, Marx is just not getting it, the existential or nihilist gist of his target, i do have a nifty Marxist library, but all that talk about economics really takes the wind out of my sails.
Manner of getting more reading and listening done, when exhausted only nap for an hour or so, then get back to the books, there's nothing else, it's like Dorothy's shoe mantra -- there's no place like books 3x.
As long as it's August 11, 2025, if i have anything to say i'll edit it in below these words here. --- 7:07am
For me however, i'm ignited by philosophy, i am putting together quite rapidly now a curriculum for myself. Remember how i tried to put on a curriculum a few months ago here?
Greco-Roman resources with Plato and Aristotle being the prime targets with much secondary material being used for them, the domain of History comes next right after the Stoics, and Epicureanism, sadly not much of Epicurus survives, and he wrote voluminously, but it can be paired with that mighty poem of Lucretius, and some figures of the Enlightenment.
There's so many cheap and free collection ebooks out there, one of them i'm using now is called The Enlightenment Collection, which starts with Descartes, i need to read more of him than just that one work of his there.
I'm very rusty on the sequential list of philosophers from Descartes onwards, but there must be
Hobbes -- a fave of Gass is his Leviathan
Spinoza -- his Tract where he critiques the bible, NOT his Ethics, save that for later
Leibniz -- i'm thrilled to have a Delphi for him, i wish to see one for Lessing sometime btw
Kant -- i feel optimistic that in some way i can do what i used to not be able to do.
Hegel -- i remember an esteemed member here recommending his Philosophy of History, and it's way more readable than Phenomenology of Spirit.
Kierkegaard -- one reason to in some way appreciate Hegel is to then get some of the biting humor the melancholy Dane had about him.
Schopenhauer -- i think he misunderstood Hegel, but that's not why i want to eat and digest his thought, it's for his pessimism, and for background for :
Nietzsche -- he's been so esteemed for me for such a long time, my reading of him nowadays is numbed, it's like i heard it all before, getting a lot more out of the Greco-Romans for sure.
Max Stirner -- as a proto-Nietzschean kind of thinker, his major work is one of the few i ever finished, and i loved the experience, i love the daring of it, and then i want to have Karl Marx in The German Ideology convince me that he, Marx is just not getting it, the existential or nihilist gist of his target, i do have a nifty Marxist library, but all that talk about economics really takes the wind out of my sails.
Manner of getting more reading and listening done, when exhausted only nap for an hour or so, then get back to the books, there's nothing else, it's like Dorothy's shoe mantra -- there's no place like books 3x.
As long as it's August 11, 2025, if i have anything to say i'll edit it in below these words here. --- 7:07am
46-50, M
