Beyond Good and Evil

Fooled by Randomness - Nassim Taleb Letters from a Stoic - Seneca The Bible Beyond Good and Evil - Nietzsche Psychological Types - Carl Jung

Different books for different ages: - Discourse on the Method [1], to become a healthy criticist of everything (perfect for your 15's-20's development) - Beyond Good and Evil [2], a definition of the 20th century craziness by the crazy genius Nietzsche (perfect for your 30's burnout) - The Praise of Folly [3], to realize that life is just a game (perfect for your 40's post-burnout rehab) - Propaganda [4], because you want to play the game too (perfect for your 50's meteoric rise to fame & success :). [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_on_the_Method [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_Good_and_Evil [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Praise_of_Folly [4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_%28book%29

It depends if you want to be knowledgeable "about" philosophy and knowledge or if you want to apply it to you life. * K.Popper (in both cases;): _Open society and its ennemies_ http://www.archive.org/stream/opensocietyandit033120mbp#page... (http://www.archive.org/stream/opensocietyandit033120mbp#page/n7/mode/2up) for "Ars Vitae" (applicable to one's life) * Plato: _Gorgias_ * Marc Aurélius: _Meditations_ * Friedrich Nietzsche: _Beyond good & evil_ I agree with others on Hume, Russell, Husserl. Another great thinker while he does not pretend to be a philosopher is Dan Sperber, I think of 2 books * Dan Sperber (with Deirdre Wilson) _Relevance. Communication and Cognition_ (Blackwell, 1986) * Sperber, Dan (1996) Explaining culture: _A naturalistic approach._ (Oxford: Blackwell) Finally philosophical literature: * Doistoievski: _The Brothers Karamazov_ (question of God is asked)

Beyond Good and Evil - Nietzsche Ashtavakra Gita - Ashtavakra The Prophet - Gibran

It's amazing how many good historical works are out of copyright and free. I got an Amazon Kindle as a gift, and it's been really wonderful for me. If you like Roman history, you've got to check out Gibbons' History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. It's just a masterpiece. I flip through my copy of Meditations from time to time (actually, now I look at it on my Kindle, but I used to flip through my paper copy) and just pick out random quotes. A great work. "It is not the thing itself that disturbs a man, but the man's perception of and reaction to the thing. The thing may not be able to be changed, but a man's perception and reaction may be changed." I'm butchering that quote, but it's incredibly meaningful to me, and I try to reflect on it when things seem to be going wrong or I get inconvenienced. While talking about classics, there's a lot of good philosophy out of copyright. Beyond Good and Evil and Thus Spoke Zarathustra aren't perfect works and I disagree with a fair bit of it, but there's some absolute jewels in them too.…