Long shot in the Campfire but I'm generally interested. Does anyone enjoy or espouse any philosophers or philosophical movements?

Recommendations for reading?

Regards

Voltaire

Read "Candide"

I wrote my master's thesis on Kant's philosophy of mind.

Harry Jaffa....You can find his work at the Claremont Institute.

https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-harry-jaffa-20150116-story.html

And now for something completely different,

Categorical imperative...I enjoyed Kant.

Only as an ends, not as a means...

Good read. Optimism vs reality.

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations

If you don't mind, I'd enjoy reading it.

Regards

Matt Dillon

kaywoodie;
Top of the morning to you my southern friend, I trust the day is behaving down there and you're well.

Our eldest, my usual hunting partner and coffee connoisseur which I was discussing above, isn't really a reader as such but she did lend me her copy of some collected works of Voltaire.

In fact I did like Candide the best and honestly when one considers the time in which it was written, it's really provocative stuff as well as entertaining.

Good luck on your hunts this fall.

Dwayne

Not familiar but a classics professor as well? Do you have any links oe suggestions for reading?

Regards

Jcubed;
Good morning, I hope the day is looking fine and bright in your part of the country and you're healthy.

I am not really qualified to answer your question intelligently but do enjoy listening to folks like Jordan Peterson and Jonathan Pageau discuss philosophy and symbolism. Much of it goes deeper than I've gone however or perhaps maybe am capable of going even.

While it's likely pretty lightweight stuff and I'm sure you've read it, I like to work my way through the classic "Meditations on Hunting" by Jose Ortega y Gasset every few years to see if I've changed my viewpoints any during the interim.

Thanks for the topic and discussion regardless though, it's good to see some of the 'Fire folks are of the deep sort.

Good luck on your hunts this fall.

Dwayne

I have not read Mr. Ortega but will put it on my list. You are surely qualified as are all other persons.

Hopefully, it will evoke discussion...

Regards

Has anyone seen Mike Kant?

The closest I’ve come any of that, that you would consider following closely to is Col. Cooper’s writings

In your bedroom?

Ymmv

Abraxis for the real truth.

This person?

wiki Abraxas

Thanks

I enjoy listening to Jordan Peterson's podcast of late.

don't agree with everything of course but I am intrigued with them.

I've read the Meditations a few times.

But when it comes down to it............Ruark's "The Old man and the boy" is about as good as it gets for a non educated cajun.

It might take me a bit to find it. I'm just sorting through a huge move. Yesterday, I literally unloaded 90,000lbs with the help of our very own 12344Mag. I did, just recently, run into my research materials and notes, but I'm not sure which pallet they ended up in.

either that or the Santana album. lol

Albert Camus, Nietsche , St Thomas Aquinas, Sartre

Copy. Don't worry about it! Enjoy the new place!

Nice selection, if not varied

Roger Scruton

Wife and I, we're both biological types, had a Zoology professor. Best teacher I ever had at any level of school. He and his brother wrote a very well respected textbook on invertebrate zoology.

She told me one day in class, during a lecture on some critter's internal workings or such, a student asked him "Why does it work like this? " or something similar.

His answer was "Why is a philosophy question. That department is located on the other side of the campus"

That about sums up my philosophy experience.

I can count Castaneda and Don Juan as philosophy though I guess. There is a separate reality.

Jeff Cooper (shrug)

My perspective on ethics, morality, and judgment in general is strongly influenced by Pyrrho.

On first glance of things that came up on search of his name, I may be interested in checking out his path.

Can you recommend any particular parts of his writings or scholarly discussions of such?

Suspension of judgment whenever not practically possible.

Thumbs up to that.

Sometimes things just "Are".

Not good, not bad, they just "Are"

Timothy Leary, Hunter Thompson, Hugh Hefner.
Oh, and Jesus.

For a quick overview (remember Cliff's Notes?) I have an older textbook Greek Philosophy: Thales to Aristotle that boils down the pre-Socratic biggies. Thales was especially geared toward math and modern STEM programs owe him a tip of the sombrero. Aristotle, a student of Plato, is a classic whose works are routinely easy to find if you are so inclined.

For blasphemous humor, besides Monty Python, try the Flying Spaghetti Monster website.

Yes! Very good.

Pessimist!

Julius Evola

Had an excellent movement at gas station on the way to shooting range today

Diogenes the Cynic

His handle says it all. And, he loved his "dog".

I've tried to merge Seneca's outlook on life with Aleister Crowley's views on women as my roadmap.

Epictetus had a way of looking at things that has helped me find perspective.

If they're not immediately eminently relevant they need no be anything.

It'd have to be pretty spectacular to overcome the ambiance.

Kudos you heathen.

LOL

That part about gettin shît and piss dumped on em out of a window…

👍👍

Myself

I’m kinda fond of Bophades

That's just nuts.

John

Have you found the honest man?

Jcubed: I believe in "Karma" does that count for anything in this regard?
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

In regard to the topic or finding an honest man?

Personally, I do not believe in Karma.

Ymmv

Heinlein's perception of philosophy showed strongly in his adult works. Most of it, I strongly identify with.

Scew .gov.
Screw everyone else's ideas of morality.
I only have to justify my life to me, and my loved ones.

Nothing like an author who writes an escape tunnel into the protagonist's abode.

Complete with lime pit in which to dispose of nosey federales.

And the monkeys chasing and pinching them girls on their asses!!! 😉😉😉😍😍😍

Bocephus

Ray Nitschke

Be Who You Are and Say What You Mean Because Those Who Mind Don't Matter and Those Who Matter Don't Mind!
Dr Seuss

Ayn Rand.

My own views on matters of the human condition are far superior to any others.

Frederich Schiller and Johann Wolfgang von Göethe are actually my other two favs after Voltaire.

David Allen Coe....It was all I could do to keep from crying.Pretty much sums ot up these days.

If at first you don’t suck seed keep on suckin till you do suck seed… Curly, Three Stooges.

Maybe not exactly on topic, but intriguing nonetheless. Julian Jaynes. I found his theory, Origin of Consciousness, pretty fascinating. He's been dead for decades, but there's an organization that continues his research.
https://www.julianjaynes.org