Where do I read on more about these philosophies...

[Straw Dog]

Hmm... So you don't like reading much? That might make learning about ancient philosophies difficult, at least in any comprehensive manner.

For Epicurus, you could just read the Principal Doctrines, which is a basic summary.

Whenever you get to Zhuangzi, I suppose that you could just watch Monty Python instead.

This thread is a little dated. How has your learning experience developed?

 

[The Sum of Awe]

I bought some books but didn't read any of them really - I still am pretty passive on information books but I have learned a bit just from researching quite a bit at a time

 

[Alceste]

I bought some books but didn't read any of them really - I still am pretty passive on information books but I have learned a bit just from researching quite a bit at a time

I bought this book and keep it in the bathroom, where I learn about one philosopher per poop.

Philosophy Book:Amazon:Books

 

[Secret Chief]

How many paradigms per pee?

 

[The Sum of Awe]

I bought this book and keep it in the bathroom, where I learn about one philosopher per poop.

Philosophy Book:Amazon:Books

You should make a commercial promoting this book using that line

 

[Alceste]

How many paradigms per pee?

For pees I have a book of haiku.

 

[Secret Chief]

For pees I have a book of haiku.

Excellent. For your next visit, one by Basho:

summer grasses -
all that remains
of warriors' dreams

 

[marvek32]

I'm kind of fussy when it comes to philosophers, I mean, I study some philosophical guides and observe that it can just be summarized in smaller conditions, what they're explaining. At some point I'll understand to become individual though... I guess

 

[Vouthon]

then probably German philosophers, Germany had a lot of smart people .

If you move on to Germany, and wish to remain with philosophers from many centuries ago as with the Greeks, may I suggest Meister Eckhart? He is essentially the Father of German thought/philosophy ie

"...We have in the sermons of Meister Eckhart the first substantial body of sophisticated philosophical and theological discussion in a European vernacular language. This then is the first context in which we must see Eckhart, as the Father of a distinguished German philosophical and theological tradition which extends to the present day. Indeed, there is much in Eckhart that points down the centuries to later, distinctly German, schools of philosophical thought. The primacy of the intellect and of the human mind which is so characteristic of Eckhart anticipates nineteenth-century German Idealism, and Eckhart's recourse to the rhetorical resources of language in order to communicate his ideas is reminiscent of German thinkers of the modern period, such as Friedrich Nietzche or Martin Heidegger.

Secondly, Eckhart's theology needs to be seen as one of the great medieval attempts to achieve a synthesis between Greek thought and Christian faith..."

- Oliver Davies

Eckhart would be an interesting choice for you, since he is a bridge from the Greek philosophy you have already read into later German philosophy, via his attempts to synthesise Platonism with Christianity and his own reason, and the enormous significance and influence Eckhart has exerted on German philosophy and language:

"...Eckhart's significance for German philosophy and intellectual culture in general cannot be overstressed...For the first time, through Eckhart, philosophy began to speak German..."

"...German philosophy of the nineteenth century adopted Eckhart as an ancestor and called him the "father of German speculation and thought" (Joseph Bach, 1864). Hegel regarded Eckhart as the reconciler of faith and science; Schopenhauer saw him as the founder of transcendental idealism.."

If you are interested in Eckhart, then please order this book of selections from some of his key sermons and treatises:

Selected Writings (Penguin Classics): Meister Eckhart, Oliver Davies: 9780140433432: Amazon.com: Books

Here also is a link to quotes from him on wikiquote: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Meister_Eckhart

And of his disciples and later followers:

Henry Suso - http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_Suso

Johannes Tauler - http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Johannes_Tauler

Jan van Ruysbroeck http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Ruysbroeck

and Angelus Silesius - http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Angelus_Silesius

Of the later German philosophers, my favourite is Kant. He was wonderfully idealistic, humanistic and international in mind

 

[Reptillian]

I bought this book and keep it in the bathroom, where I learn about one philosopher per poop.

Philosophy Book:Amazon:Books

For pees I have a book of haiku.

Lol, I take words off the shampoo bottle and make anagrams.

 

[dyanaprajna2011]

Two websites: the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Both of those have scholarly articles on a vast number of philosophers and philosophical ideas.

 

[The Sum of Awe]

This thread is old. No longer need these materials. Thanks though.