Imagine having philosophical friends

"...Get together your friends who are also interested in philosophy..." I am yet to develop adequate philosophy to acquire such a standard of company.

him: read with friends. me: buys a mirror.

It's quite hard to differentiate between my Philosophical Friends and Imaginary Friends.

"Some of the best philosophical books are quite small" Me :Laughs in Kant and Hegel

“Friends interested in philosophy” I wish I had some

You should make video recomandation philosophy books for beginner.

“Have you ever wondered why these are written in such a short format?” My copy of being and nothingness looking at me from the corner: 👀

Nietzsche is more like bombs in each sentence rather than poetry. But great video for encourageing more readers to tackle philosophical texts correctly.

I have read a couple Socratic dialogues and found them entertaining, relatively easy to understand, and insightful. It’s fun to see how he picks apart people’s world view.

Reading out loud is a wonderful way to extract more meaning from a book, even if it's on your own. Something about speaking the words and hearing them come back to you enhances everything. It also increases my appreciation for a wonderfully crafted sentence. :)

3:46 From Wiki: Elaborative rehearsal is a type of memory rehearsal that is useful in transferring information into long term memory. This type of rehearsal is effective because it involves thinking about the meaning of the information and connecting it to other information already stored in memory. It goes much deeper than maintenance rehearsal.

Thanks man. Now I want to create a philosophy book club

For me, ive been writing on what i read. I break things down into smaller portions, then write about that portion to grasp greater understanding of whats trying to be conveyed. I find its very useful to write.

1. Create a reading group. It's just a group of people who get together to read a book and discuss it afterwards. 2. First time: read the book slowly with plenty of dictionaries by your side. Lookup every singe word you don't understand. Make sure there are no ideas or words you understand merely intuitively or by guessing. 3. Read the book twice. Second time: read the book in its entirety. 4. Stay 'awake', or conscious. Make sure you understand every single sentence and paragraph by summarizing the paragraph you just read IN YOUR OWN WORDS. This is keep you alert, and to stop you speed reading, scanning, or unconsciously reading. Remember: they are hard to read books - as such we have a tendency to read unconsciously - AKA to not be aware of what we're reading. 5. Review the book. Precis the main ideas in the book. Present your precis to your reading group.

My experience with reading Nietzsche: he always seems to be saying something that I myself have discovered or observed independently on my own, only he explains it more eloquently. And the joy in reading his work is really no different from that of being able to talk to someone who understands me. When I read him it feels like I'm talking to someone who shares my interest, curiosity, passion, sense of wonder, in observing life and the world and abstracting something out of that data. In short, trying to understand the human condition in a somewhat general setting, sometimes metaphorically. I don't see the point of trying to force oneself to read his philosophy if one doesn't possess that deep feeling for observation and abstraction. It will be a futile exercise. It's only possible to find joy in this if something more personal were at stake and the project arises from an organic process of discovery. In short, someone who is already happy and content with their life and with their picture and understanding of the world need not bother.

My problem is my friends aren’t interested in reading at all, yet alone philosophical writing, but ur right on point…I wasn’t aware that I’m already doing all the techniques u have mentioned..thanks

i love what you say in the end that philosophy is about discussion and not being a dogmatist. bcause to me it seems like academic philosopher are on the one hand of course involved in duscussion but on the other hand highly dogmatic.

Excellent advice. In Grad School we put this in play as Independent Study courses. We would define an area of interest, compile a bibliography then find a sympathetic Prof. to sponsor it and, maybe, meet a few times with us. But, it was mostly US (a subversive group of friends/classmates) who met weekly for a few hours, discussed and often read each other passages of interest or difficulty out loud. We also published our own newsletter for students and helped guide and protect incoming students from the generally alienating experience of being a first year Grad Student, at a top tier University. Educate yourself with others when you can. Great Advice! And, IT WORKS!

I haven't read anything by Nietsche, but I heard it all boils down to "Follow your heart" and "Have a nice day."

I read "On The Shortness Of Life" today and the whole time I felt confused. It's the only book on philosophy I've read. I was told it's a good place to start. I'll have to re-read it.

Very few of my friends would be interested in philosophy. And most enjoy reading when I am on my own. As far as philosophy goes I like relating my lifes experience to the train of thought in the text and seeing if any of it meshes together (or if it at least makes me think about a lifes experience in a slightly different way). Discovered your channel an hour ago lad and I am finding it most enjoyable. Thank you. Subscribed.

I’m actually starting to read thus spoke Zaratustra”” and I was doing it as a novel, I will use your approach!

I was thinking of Heidegger's Being & Time and I would have struggled to read it a line at a time. That one worked for me as I kept going despite not understanding but gradually it's like learning a new language till you start to feel what he's getting at. I liked it. Probably makes sense to read it only after reading a load of other philosophy though because it's as much about that as it is about how we exist in the world.

The book you're holding is a landmine.

Funny I found this video, I was just about to start reading Beyond Good and Evil lol. I appreciate the advice, I definitely agree with you, take it as slow as you need to, don't treat it like a novel, aim to understand the passages, one at a time. I think your advice is particularly necessary for Thus Spoke Zarathustra, which I just recently read. And albeit I did pick up quite a bit of information from the text, I will re-read it and this time try to get as deep as I can with it, I appreciate the video.

Mate you have cleared my doubts just started reading in the philosophy genre...

I tend to just read the book at a steady pace and then revisit it when a passage comes back into my mind for whatever reason, although I admit I find myself naturally taking more time over something like Nietzsche. Some things in the text are too expansive to be comprehended consciously or even rationally by churning them over, so I just leave it up to the unconscious to shift through it. The meaning is also often interrelated with the rest of the text, so I don't find taking the text one chunk at a time necessarily enhances my understanding. If you have to have it explained to you that philosophy isn't bestselling paperback novels you can just wolf down, you probably wouldn't find much value in understanding such a text anyway.

very smart. the time being spent on thinking philosophy so much more important than quickly finishing philosophy book.

I have the exact same book but I have not started reading it yet. Thanks for the tip!

Loved the ending!

For those that want to get better at understanding philosophy, but don't have friends that are interested in philosophy as well, I have some advice from my own personal experience I can offer: As someone that primarily reads non-fiction, I suggest taking your time with philosophical works. Take notes if it helps - a good portion of understanding philosophy is putting multiple arguments together and rationalizing whether or not a philosopher's conclusion makes sense. Sometimes, the arguments are lengthy because of background information on the arguments themselves. Sometimes there are just a lot of arguments. Sometimes there are a lot of arguments, and the thinker gives a lot of background information, too. On top of that, understand that different levels of complexity exist. Sometimes the cause of this is due to the topic in question (such as in the case of paradoxes), but other times, it's because of the philosopher (such as in the case of Hegel). That being the case, it wouldn't make sense to begin with philosophical works that have a high level of difficulty. And honestly - for those that are new to philosophical works, or are returning to them after not reading them for a long time - the easiest way to get into it is to begin with books that are hybrids of fiction and philosophy (such as George Orwell's "Animal Farm" in the case of political philosophy, or Jostein Gaarder's "Sophie's World" for general philosophy).

I have no friends that read that but that would be amazing

Muchas gracias

Thank you .Been of great Help! :)

Just bought "beyond good and evil" it's hard to process

Thank you

this is so useful!

love ur videos...... i have also started a motivational channel.... u r a inspiration

Firstly I like the video, great job and the book to illustrate the point is close hit for me. Some time ago I picked Beyond Good and Evil and was like "Dude,wtf, where are the memes" Sorry to nitpick 2:16 but as for Nietzsche specifically "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" for example is the text you need to experience it's not just the memes and goofs but the rhythm and style.

Hmmm, interesting technique. You'd have to find a group of people who are willing to commit to reading it with you though. Doubt I'll be able to get my high school friends to do it with be but we'll see! I'm reading Simone de Beauvoir's Ethics of Ambiguity.

thanks, this is helpful. keep going !

just stumbled upon your channel and website and I loved them! may I ask, what did you use to create your website? it looks cool

What would you suggest for reading on frugalism or minamalism?

Loved this! Savage

Nice!

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Sick video thanks for the help

Love the nietzsche!

Thanks

please turn on closed captioning. Thanks!

You read my superman's book? you are amazing.

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You deserve more suscribers, any advice on specifically understanding Nietzsche?

OMG!!! I love ur accent!!! Where rare you from originally (background)?

Thou shalt get to the point- Said Zarathustra!

Can you help me how to read the book? easy to remember and easy to understand the book? Thanks.

Keep making these videos

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u can call me out for being arrogant or throw "dunning kruger" at me thats fine. I just wanted to get something out of my chest by no means am i a genius, Im above average at best but god does it feel so lonely sometimes when you dont have an "intelectual pear" I value intellect a lot and it really is extremely demotivating to see people on the internet make such brash, uneducated, closeminded and just "bad" statements. its so demotivating to be excited for a classroom debate, expecting to be challenge but all you get is "according to the bible", "according to these and that" and when challenged they cant answer because the question they got wasnt part of the routine or plan that they practiced. Then when you try to say something, sometimes they cant grasp it because its so outside of their comprehension. if I were to describe my learning rate or intelligence it would be "you may win the battle, but you'll never win the war". if we were to have 100 chess matches, you may win the first 20 but you'll never win after that. This makes me even sadder because a lot of times even if I see someone who I think could maybe engage me the way that I want to be engaeged, they're either not as smart or as eloquent as I thought they were(which is my fault) or at some point I just outpace them and get bored. dont get me wrong i have great friends and we'd die for each other but it really does feel like im sometimes wasting my potential, if only I was surrounded by smarter people because then in turn I would be smarter too. I have dreams, great ones. My ambition can be understandably mistaken for arrogance and delution. I want to use my what I have to help people. I want to invent, innovate, and help mankind. but fuck me does it feel like im squandering it all, I dont feel smarter than i was years ago. TLDR: I feel like Im wasting my life.

"People give up on philosophy books because they're too complex" Shows BGE, one of the most intelligible and well written books by a philologist which is barely philosophy

I did find it easier to read out loud, and even better, have audio book and read parallel

Question? Do audiobooks help or harm?

I’m struggling to find people who share interest and philosophy in literature. How do you recommend I do this? I have already graduated college and I am already in the workforce.

Fr I tried looking for a local public facebook group of people interested in philosophy. All I found was a group of people on weed.

I can't even bring myself to pick up fiction that I enjoy, let alone philosophy!

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bro this was so helpful good sh*t

Good video ta

yo RC, we need to get in touch and talk philosophy. other philosophy enthusiasts are hard to come by lol

Do you have any book recommendations for someone that has no experience and wants to start reading and learning about philosophy?

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4:47 based

Robin: suggests having philosophical friends Me couldnt find anyone: okay lets imagine a philosophical personality instead

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honestly, reading a philosophy book often feels like reading an advanced maths textbook

Zarathustra is a bit hard, trying to wrap my head around the text

I'm starting to get into Philosophy but there's so much

Philosophy is empowering my maladaptive-daydreaming, bruh.

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This stuff has a lot of interpretations to it and that's what makes it hard to interpret things.

Hey man where are you from?

teach it, and you will spot illusions of your asumptions - anonymous

Grande Enk (Enk-in sempre e comunque) SKSKSKSK

Aw man, i wish i could discuss philosophy with friends but mine are no interested, i know its kind of lame but if someone in the comments has a discord or a group i'll gladly join.

Yeah lotr didn't take much effort, but man Silmarillion was more exhausting than many philosophical bks

The answer to the title: read literature first, and never buy books you won't be able to read.

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Ok. I look for new philosophical friends now

Bold of you to assume I have friends

Im learning philosophy which book is best as beginner.?

You won't understand them unless you have baggage and this has to be earned.

Me, reading Plato: "uh... right..."

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hellulila, autistic people tend to like lexicas and books that contain no or only little fiction. I can confirm that with me, but the cost is that reading takes more energy..

Tip: Learn every single definition in the book

Hit me up if you wanna read philosophy together

I have a harder time reading fiction than philosophy.

I am the only reader around my state 🙂 ( Substituting Trending fiction readers )