Most of my life I've been very, very unintestered in philosphy but I've recently developped a curiosity for some philosophical concepts like "structuralism" and I'm a bit curious about what the fuck type of political philosphy the Greeks developped after a friend told me they were reading Aristotle for their poli-sci class. What should I read? No self-help books please and thank you.

  • Hexbear2 [any]
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    3 years ago

    Bertrand Russell, in defence of idleness--it's a short read.

    Also read some classics like Dao De Jing, Plato's Cave/Republic, etc.

    Also read some western era "enlightenment" like Bacon, Kant, Locke, etc, but you should also read some left wing critique of these philosophies, it will help to view these critically from a left wing perspective.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_intellectuals_of_the_Enlightenment