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All the comments and stories posted to Hacker News that reference this url.I've been into literature and philosophy for some time now. I'm following the "Masterpieces of World Literature" course [1] and have finished "Beyond Good and Evil" last month, currently reading Kierkegaard's Either/Or.Aside from that, I'm also participating in Leetcode 30 days of code challenge [2]
[1] https://www.edx.org/course/masterpieces-of-world-literature [2] https://leetcode.com/explore/featured/card/30-day-leetcoding...
⬐ yborisWhenever it comes to philosophy, I always recommend Peter Singer -- just about anything by him is great. Consider Practical Ethics [1], or the recently-released-free The Life You Can Save 10th anniversary edition [2][1] https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Ethics-Peter-Singer/dp/0521...
⬐ nequalstimSame here :)Just started reading
At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others by Sarah Bakewell
It has a really nice narrative and tells the story of the aforementioned. Kierkegaard also makes some occurrences.
⬐ stdlinif you tend to like that book I would highly recommended Walter Kaufman's Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre and Goethe, Kant, and Hegel⬐ david_wSecond this also. Also enjoyed Will To Power as a kind of well of "things well said, which make you think, " even if they're not strictly correct.Bertrand Russell wrote a lot of very accessible Western philosophy overview or survey books which I found orienting:
https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/a-history-of-western-philosoph...
and
https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-problems-of-philosophy_ber...
the former is online here:
http://www.ntslibrary.com/PDF%20Books/History%20of%20Western...
About this one he said :(paraphrasing from memory now), "A big book is a big evil. You may ask why then the author proposes to lay before you the present work..."
He's a hoot.