I want to compile a list of essential reading on various topics, including Philosophy (metaphysics, logic, etc.), Politics (specifically right wing), homesteading, survival, etc. If you have an idea of a book that is a good read to get into a topic, @ me in this channel and I will throw it into a list. Eventually, we will have a list with essential readings and then books to delve deeper into the topics.

@Polak before you read anything to do with history i would reccomend first going over the book "The Decline of The West" by oswald spengler. very good philosophical book on history.

@Belisarius noted. Will add under History/Philospophy. Thank you for the suggestion.

@Polak A plan to add books one-by-one over time? Is there a base of books you have collected already in this list?

I've got a great many books to share.

you can post them all here anytime

@User Not really, I‘ve only read the first chapter. I hope I‘m going to have time to read all of it soon.

1984 is definitely also necessary to read. I also read Animal Farm first. mostly because of its slim size, though I've had to reread it many times because of that same reason.

@P14 Have you read Spengler's Decline of the West yet?

I was discussing it earlier, and am hoping to find those who have already read it here.

@User No, I haven‘t.

Don't have a list made up at the moment. This channel has a lot of reccomendations, but I want to organize them under topics.

Ok. I'll make sure to add to the list.

There is this list @Polak

Plato (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)
Aristotle (a selection)
Thomas Aquinas - Summa Theologica
Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince
Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan
Jean Jacques Rousseau - The Social Contract
Adam Smith - Wealth of Nations
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
John Stuart Mill - On Liberty
Hegel - The Philosophy of Right
Friedrich Nietzsche - On the Genealogy of Morality
Karl Marx - Das Kapital
Adolf Hitler - Mein Kampf
George Orwell - Animal Farm & 1984
John Rawls - A theory of justice

Only philosophy though.

i like the /lit/ document

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y8_RRaZW5X3xwztjZ4p0XeRplqebYwpmuNNpaN_TkgM/mobilebasic?pli=1

https://wrathoftheawakenedsaxon.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/revolt-against-the-modern-world-julius-evola.pdf

A great right wing Italian philosopher, here he writes about traditionalism and the importance of it. He coined the phrase "Revolt against the modern world" with this book of the same title.

https://youtu.be/Z7Gc1bv-Mj4

An interesting video, that isn't very long, and mentions a book I think we would appreciate. I haven't found it online yet (also haven't bothered to look yet,) but I'll post it here if I find it.

@P14 Thanks for the recommendations. Those are a lot of good books on philosophy to start with.

@Lorenzo empires last for much longer than 250 years

the reason Rome fell was for a complex amount of reasons. It's amazing it lasted for so long, there was constant fighting in a change of power. Generals after winning battles would use their army to overthrow the emperor

plus they had a plague that was weakening their borders

but the economic inequality is incredibly true

@Roman Dreams I don't defend the opinion of the video/author I posted. I only posted it to share stuff. I think the 250 year thing isn't a limit, but an average for most empires.

could be a peek golden year

History moves alot faster today than it did 2000 years ago, so I'm not sure it even makes sense to measure the life-span of empires in years, or even try to find some consistent life-span.

but the paralells between America and the Roman Empire are significant

I don't think so, America is much more complex and stable

but wealth inequality and social degeneracy are concerning

@wizzy The guy who made that document calls himself a marxist. However, I've read through the document before, and it doesn't look bad. Very good material and chronology for introductory philosophy.

As someone that already has somewhat of an undergraduate-level understanding of philosophy, there was still a lot of useful knowledge (there is other good information too, such as which publishers to avoid when purchasing books and why).

Has anyone else read through the /lit/ philosophy document?

I haven't

Is it good?

: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y8_RRaZW5X3xwztjZ4p0XeRplqebYwpmuNNpaN_TkgM/mobilebasic?pli=1 For a broad introduction yes.

A very useful book I've found myself using is "How to Read a Book" (by Mortimer Adley).