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Philosopher readability tier list:
S: Plato, Russell, Augustine
A: Hume, Macintyre, Rawls, Nietzsche
B: Descartes, Korsgaard
C: Locke, Berkeley, Rousseau
D: Aristotle, Aquinas, Fichte
F: Kant, Heidegger, Hegel
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The PartTime Philosopher
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The PartTime Philosopher
@PartTimePhilo
Taking about Philosophy and Politics. Devoted Kantian and Aristotle dabbler. left liberal.
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If I could only read 10 authors for the rest of my life:
1. Kant
2. Tolkien
3. George RR Martin
4. Aristotle
5. Macintyre
6. Jane Austin
7. Detlev Peukert
8. Peter Brown
9. Plato
10. Phil Hoyeck
Joshua D Phillips@JoshPhillipsPhD
If I could only read 10 authors for the rest of my life 1. Homer 2. Virgil 3. Sophocles 4. Shakespeare 5. KJV Bible (I know, not an author. But whatever) 6. Tolstoy 7. Dostoevsky 8. Hemingway 9. Fitzgerald 10. Twain
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Pope Leo XIV speaking about JRR Tolkien and the Lord of the Rings after quoting Gandalf in his first encyclical
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Philosopher readability tier list:
S: Plato, Russell, Augustine
A: Hume, Macintyre, Rawls, Nietzsche
B: Descartes, Korsgaard
C: Locke, Berkeley, Rousseau
D: Aristotle, Aquinas, Fichte
F: Kant, Heidegger, Hegel
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@bengrossbg @PAHoyeck @olivertraldi The sections of A Theory of Justice are too clear for libertarians to have misread it so badly.
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@rbnmckenna86 @olivertraldi I’m realizing now I ought to have ranked Rawls lower
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@olivertraldi @PartTimePhilo In what world is Rawls easier to read than Descartes—or Berkeley for that matter?
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@PAHoyeck I was going to ask where you would rank Habermas
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For mid-to-late 20th century continental philosophy:
S: N/A
A: Camus, Beauvoir, Honneth
B: Horkheimer, Arendt, Foucault
C: Marcuse, Sartre
D: Adorno, Habermas
F: Derrida
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Philosopher readability tier list:
S: Plato
A: Hume, Russell
B: Descartes, Berkeley, Nietzsche
C: Locke, Spinoza
D: Aquinas, Wittgenstein
F: Kant, Hegel, Heidegger
The PartTime Philosopher@PartTimePhilo
Philosopher readability tier list: S: Plato, Russell, Augustine A: Hume, Macintyre, Rawls, Nietzsche B: Descartes, Korsgaard C: Locke, Berkeley, Rousseau D: Aristotle, Aquinas, Fichte F: Kant, Heidegger, Hegel
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@LIgfried Plato is challenging but he presents his ideas very clearly. But, for example, The Metaphysics and The Posterior by Aristotle are very difficult and not clear at all. This is why there are so many interpretations of Aristotle’s texts.
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The idea that Plato is super readable and Aristotle is extremely difficult is a weird meme that makes no sense. Several of Plato's dialogues are quite challenging and most of Aristotle's shorter works are pretty accessible.
The PartTime Philosopher@PartTimePhilo
Philosopher readability tier list: S: Plato, Russell, Augustine A: Hume, Macintyre, Rawls, Nietzsche B: Descartes, Korsgaard C: Locke, Berkeley, Rousseau D: Aristotle, Aquinas, Fichte F: Kant, Heidegger, Hegel
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@PAHoyeck Those pesky Germans always at the bottom
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@PaulGofaone @moriah_bridges It is really a great book
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@PartTimePhilo @moriah_bridges I read Gorgias a few years ago and it changed it my life! That's where I started and now I am making my way through the list.
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Plato is truly by far the most enjoyable Philosopher to read. Second, is David Hume. The worst are Kant and Aristotle (mainly his Metaphysics).
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@WoosterJeeves2 I haven’t read enough of Wittgenstein
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@olivertraldi Rawls I can understand but Macintyre is pretty clear
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@PartTimePhilo I would put both Macintyre and Rawls much lower.
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@Xaviers_brain Christine Korsgaard! Only the greatest Kantian there ever was or ever will be.
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@PartTimePhilo Who is Korsgaard? I like tier S with Plato and Russell Augustine
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@PartTimePhilo In their original languages, or in English
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