Message from @Polak

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2017-10-03 10:56:35 UTC  

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

2017-10-07 23:15:30 UTC  

Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes, a great philosopher.

2017-10-07 23:16:22 UTC  

It's about the need for the masses to have some form of governance over them. It's a good way to understand why anarchies fail again and again, and why the state is a nessecary evil.

2017-10-07 23:17:23 UTC  

The mega link is a collection of academic studies (that you generally have to pay for) in PDF format that you can download. They are all about the effects of ethnic diversity on societies

2017-10-07 23:19:06 UTC  

https://lirias.kuleuven.be/bitstream/123456789/84600/1/diversity_irpp.pdf
Another study on the effects of ethnic diversity on social cohesion. I'm not sure if it's in the mega link.

2017-10-07 23:19:53 UTC  

https://selfdefinition.org/christian/Gospel-of-Thomas-Scholars-Version-15-pages-1961.pdf
The gospel of thomas, a religious text that was not included in the Bible. It's a great read and not very long, and has some pretty good quotes in it.

2017-10-07 23:20:47 UTC  

https://libcom.org/files/Robert%20O.%20Paxton-The%20Anatomy%20of%20Fascism%20%20-Knopf%20(2004).pdf

The Anatomy of Fascism, by Robert E. Paxton. A good book on fascism, written by a historian/political theorist that has studied fascism all his life. It's pretty objective and certainly doesn't support fascism.

2017-10-07 23:22:14 UTC  

http://aryanism.net/downloads/books/corneliu-codreanu/for-my-legionaries.pdf

For my Legionaries, by Corneliu Codreanu, a fascist in Romania during WW2. It's an interseting read for those who are interested in history, and it covers a lot about Romania's role in the war and how people responded to the violence there. It's also interesting for people who, like I, study political theory and want some primary sources on fascist ideology instead of secondary sources.

2017-10-07 23:23:05 UTC  

And that's everything I have to recomend for now, and everything I can give in pdf form. I'll post some other stuff tomorrow, hopefully, getting a lot of books coming in, stuff on anarchism and some works by Noam Chomsky, which should interesting.

2017-10-07 23:24:00 UTC  

Good finds Lorenzo

2017-10-08 02:28:46 UTC  

Have any of you read Republic by Plato? I'm thinking about getting a copy from the library.

2017-10-08 10:15:04 UTC  

@Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips#6115 I have it, but I've never read it. If you're going for the classics, I would advise Aristotle.

2017-10-08 15:57:28 UTC  

thanks

2017-10-09 03:53:42 UTC  

@Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips#6115 If you want aristotle, I recommend The Great Books of The Western World, Volume's 8 and 9

2017-10-09 03:54:12 UTC  

you can find copies for like 8-10 bucks

2017-10-09 04:01:09 UTC  

I second reading aristotle, alot of his works can be found for free on the internet too.

2017-10-09 14:25:44 UTC  

https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/o79a/contents.html
Finished reading Animal Farm. It's not a long book and kind of amusing. I would suggest you read it, shouldn't take long.

2017-10-09 23:05:01 UTC  

Thanks for the link @P14#2043

2017-10-11 14:26:23 UTC  

my book on the finnish winter war is so fucking lit and really motivates me

2017-10-11 14:26:35 UTC  

made me (continuing in /sig/ general)

2017-10-11 15:08:47 UTC  

what's sig general?

2017-10-11 15:09:15 UTC  

Self Improvement General

2017-10-11 15:09:25 UTC  

it's a popular general on pol

2017-10-11 16:16:59 UTC  

I meant our own channel, selfimprovement general ๐Ÿ˜…

2017-10-12 14:44:42 UTC  

Just started listening to Fash the Nation, it's pretty good. We'll informed on current politics but from a right wind perspective https://therightstuff.biz/category/fash-the-nation/

2017-10-12 17:25:56 UTC  

Yeah, itโ€˜s pretty good

2017-10-15 05:16:38 UTC  
2017-10-15 05:16:50 UTC  

Fash the Nation and The Daily Shoah are both fantastic

2017-10-15 05:16:52 UTC  

Yeah, listening to FTN right now xD

2017-10-16 04:42:14 UTC  

The Latter Day Pamphlets, by Thomas Carlyle

2017-10-18 23:26:07 UTC  

Finished Spengler's Decline of the West a few weeks ago. I discussed the book with some old students too. I'm not too experienced in Philosophy of History at the moment, so I'm working on it right now.

2017-10-18 23:39:41 UTC  

@P14 Animal farm is one of the greatest satirical books I've read. I suppose you're familiar with 1984 as well?

2017-10-18 23:40:56 UTC  

Id be surprised if anyone here hasnt read 1984

2017-10-18 23:47:23 UTC  

I've recently been studying Philosophy of History, and I've found that supplements to such works are invaluable. On a similar note, there are few works that summate philosophy and its history to the degree that is possible to sufficiently understand both. For this I recommend Kenny's A New History of Western Philosophy. It was thoroughly useful. It is a good introduction to general philosophy and is relatively new, and I've got a digital (PDF) file if anyone is interested -- it is in four volumes.

2017-10-19 01:27:55 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/359486648368627713/370382524981182465/A_New_History_of_Western_Philosophy_-_Ancient_Philosophy_Volume_1.pdf

2017-10-19 01:28:02 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/359486648368627713/370382554211155968/A_New_History_of_Western_Philosophy_-_Philosophy_in_the_Modern_World_Volume_4.pdf