Here’s some easy philosophy books for beginners:
- Russell & Whitehead, *Principia Mathematica*
- Aquinas, *Summa Theologiae*
- Hegel, *Science of Logic*
- Kant, *Critique of Pure Reason*
- Wittgenstein, *Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus*
@Helenreflects I think it's surprising that more similarly talented people don't do what Leibniz did.. if you're a big genius, it seems only natural to find & engage the other big intellects of your age (Newton, Locke, Spinoza).. maybe the way he did it was not a good friend-making strategy tho
75 years ago #onthisday the first volume of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex was published. Within a week, it sold over 20,000 copies. Within months, Beauvoir expressed astonishment that it attracted the attention—and attacks—that it did.
Some say having kids is the most meaningful thing you can do. But that's utterly one-dimensional! Really? *Any* kids? What if the kid is one of those gays who refuses to breed? Not so meaningful then, is it?!
has anyone considered writing a paper about how their specific subspecialization in analytic philosophy is actually crucial to addressing systemic injustice?
Is Spinoza’s position really that the actual world is the only possible world - necessary - or is that just a funny way of saying modal concepts just don’t apply to the one substance - the world is amodal? (I’m finally starting the Spinoza reading I have been meaning to do)
@MikeBenchCapon and you promise me that those reasons won't bottom out in brute facts about fundamental natures of objects tho? because if they do... it might just be a non-modal view in disguise
@CarloMonteschio I'm aware Spinoza has modal talk, I wonder whether he's really commited to modality in any substantial way or everything can either be cashed out in non-modal terms ultimately or the modals are merely epistemic. pls do tho