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« on: June 19, 2010, 04:27:37 PM »
Plato: The Republic
Aristotle: Politics, Nichomachean Ethics
Cicero: The Republic, The Laws, On Duties
Moses Maimonides: Guide for the Perplexed
Machiavelli: The Prince, The Discourses
Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan
John Locke: Two Treatises of Government, A Letter Concerning Toleration, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Montesquieu: The Spirit of the Laws
Cesare Beccaria: On Crimes and Punishments
Voltaire: Candide
Thomas Paine: Common Sense, Rights of Man
Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison: The Federalist Papers
Karl Marx: The Communist Manifesto, Capital
J.S. Mill: On Liberty
John Rawls: A Theory of Justice
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« Reply #1 on: June 20, 2010, 04:20:04 PM »
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« Reply #2 on: June 20, 2010, 07:20:56 PM »
odds benconstine has read all of Capital??
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« Reply #3 on: June 20, 2010, 07:24:11 PM »

0%.  I've read portions of it in history.  The only works here I've read completely are Cicero's The Republic, The Laws, The Prince, The Discourses, Two Treatises of Government, The Spirit of the Laws, On Crimes and Punishments, Candide, Common Sense, Rights of Man, and The Communist Manifesto.
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« Reply #4 on: June 20, 2010, 09:19:01 PM »
Marx - Grundrisse, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844

Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil, Will To Power

Emil Cioran - On The Heights Of Despair

Adorno - The Culture Industry

Marcuse - One Dimensional Man

Sartre - Being and Nothingness

Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Representation (some)

Foucault - Discipline and Punish, Madness and Civilization

Debord - Society of the Spectacle

Carl Schmitt - Political Theology

John Zerzan - Against Civilization (anarchist)

Bergson - Creative Evolution
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« Reply #5 on: June 21, 2010, 01:38:02 AM »
Plato- Theory of the Forms
Aristotle- unmoved mover
Aquinas- 5 proofs

I'm also a fan of Origen even though he was a semi- Pelagian.
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« Reply #6 on: June 21, 2010, 06:20:41 AM »
I've read Candide by Voltaire. Depressing.

I've also read large chunks of Communist Manifesto, Thus Spake Zarathustra all the way through, and I'm about to start on On Liberty.
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« Reply #7 on: June 21, 2010, 09:04:39 AM »
Quote from: Maoist WinDis on June 21, 2010, 06:20:41 AM
I've read Candide by Voltaire. Depressing.

I've also read large chunks of Communist Manifesto, Thus Spake Zarathustra all the way through, and I'm about to start on On Liberty.

You do know that the Communist Manifesto is like only 70 pages long (and that's with prefaces, special comments, etc. etc.), right?
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« Reply #8 on: June 21, 2010, 09:57:37 PM »
How about John Stuart Mill's theory of utilitarianism, I found that theory highly accurate.
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« Reply #9 on: June 23, 2010, 08:43:11 PM »
Um where to start.

Discipline and punish- Foucault - ties in with the penal colony - Kafka
Beyond good and evil - Nietzsche
San Manuel Bueno - Unaumuno
Private irony and liberal hope - Rorty
Imagined communities - Benedict Anderson
Nonmoral nature - Stephen Jay Gould
The Origins of Totalitarianism[i/] - Hannah Arendt
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« Reply #10 on: June 23, 2010, 09:06:16 PM »
See I mostly read ancient things like Plato and Aristotle. Alot of modern and postmodern works are too depressing. ^^
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« Reply #11 on: June 23, 2010, 09:08:31 PM »
Quote from: Derek on June 23, 2010, 09:06:16 PM
See I mostly read ancient things like Plato and Aristotle. Alot of modern and postmodern works are too depressing. ^^
hahaha i hate them cause they are over rated. Tongue
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« Reply #12 on: June 23, 2010, 09:27:58 PM »
My professor loved Wittgenstein.
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