Kind of a low effort thread but one worth having.

Share any philosophical quotes you like here, bonus points if you can cite the work it comes from.

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I find meditation to be very useful for me. My approach to it is a secular one, but my methods are informed by Theravada Buddhism and Zen. It's something in the same family as hypnosis, NDE, and lucid dreaming. In my model of meditation, I split it between formal meditation (sitting down, picking an ...

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Or a place where people can talk about how they would like to see the project grow or change....

I think it would be good to have a forum for "essay workshops" for example, anyone have feelings on that?

I was thinking we could maybe start with a more classic text, something along the lines of...


Plato - Symposium
Descartes - Meditations
Hume - Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Hume - Dialogs Concerning Natural Religion
Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil
Wittgenstein - Philosophical ...

Been listening to this album lately, it's growing on me...

Nominate a book for us to read together next month!

Here's a number of sites with great resources:

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Project Gutenberg - public domain ebooks
• Standard Ebooks - high quality public domain ebooks
• Shadow Library - free access to journal articles and books

Forums tend to have introduction threads; introduce yourself here so we can get an idea of who you are! :D

My name's Bob. I'm a 31 year old expat in Indonesia, where I work as a software designer and system administrator and live with my lovely wife and countless cats. Some of my hobbies include ...

Complete newby to philosophy and wondering how to go forward?

I think this is a wonderful way to enter into the field: https://rickroderick.org/

Courses include:


Philosophy and Human Values (Socrates, Epicureans, Stoics, Skeptics, Kant, Mill, Hegel, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, postmodernism ...