December book club

[joyboy]

Nominate a book for us to read together next month!

[Hermitage]

How about "Archetypal Psychology: A Brief Account" by James Hillman?

[joyboy]

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 Investigations

There are shorter texts that are highly regarded in the tradition of Western academic philosophy, and they contain enough points of ambiguity and contention to spark discourse.

Not rejecting your suggestion, but after reading it, it seems like it's more a book on psychology than a "philosophical text"? Maybe "Ich und Du" would be a good text if you're interested in an exploration of Self, or Dao De Jing for something on the mystical side ?

[SentientRoomba]

I’ll always vote for Nietzsche but I’ve also read that one too many times already. Maybe Ecce Homo instead?

Or the castle by Kafka
Or exile and kingdom by Camus

Because those are on my “to read” list already

[Hermitage]

I don't really mind, I just thought it would be a short book that would facilitate a discussion on psychology (I like psychology). Many years ago I had a friend who was a graduate student in psychology and I wanted to talk to him about Jung, and he said his faculty there regarded Jung more as a "philosopher" than a psychologist. I think that's quite amusing: Too philosophical for psychologists, too psychological for "philosophy"?

Of the options listed my vote would go for Hume or Nietzsche

[akai]

Let us read "Ethics" by Spinoza

it is a shorter read, and a good way to break in the book club. Not my most favorite book, but I think it gives enough possibility for discourse, no matter what your philosophical thoughts/tastes are.