Robert Greene's 5 Favorite Philosophy Books
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- Robert Greene, author of "The 48 Laws of Power, "33 Strategies of War", "The Art of Seduction", "Mastery", "Laws of Human Nature", "The 50th Law", and "The Daily Laws" shares the philosophy books that he would recommend to everyone.
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If you are looking for specific books from these philosophers:
Plato - The Republic (as mentioned)
Aristotle - The Nicomachean Ethics
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
Seneca - Letters from a Stoic
Epictetus - Discources
(In regards to stoic philosophy Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl is also amazing)
Michel de Montaigne - The Complete Essays
Nietzsche - On the Genealogy of Morals (not a good idea to start with Beyond Good and Evil or Thus Spoke Zarathustra)
Camus - The Stranger (I personally liked The Stranger more than The Plague, although The Plague would also be a good first choice)
@She’s O R I G N A L he forgot tye works of swami vivekananda, worth looking into.
Gracias.
why not thus spoke?
Thanks love
Interesting to skip over all of the early moderns
Anything Robert recommends is worth looking into. He is one of the greatest authors of the modern era .
You’re right
Stoicism helped me get sober, if you need some motivation and are struggling in life I'd definitely recommend meditations by Marcus Aurelius.
good vid! Straightforward, direct, and very helpful!
This was such a helpful starter blueprint for a dense and overwhelming subject. Much appreciated!
An exceptional response to a very challenging question. Well done, Robert.
It's amazing how he suggested all these Philosophers and I literally have Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Republic, Myth of Sisyphus, Meditations and Letters from a Stoic. Same taste Robert Greene
1:18 - I’m Greek, but Montaigne actually looks a lot like my Uncle Aristotle who runs the souvlaki joint just a couple of blocks down from my place (his short order cooks are named Socrates and Demosthenes, with whom he’s constantly fighting - no joke!).
Great selections.
Thank you
I would add Cicero, especially on Duties
imo some of the most important ones are machiavelli's prince, jean jacques rousseau's du contrat social and a more niche one etienne de la boetie's discours de la servitude volontaire. Granted these are kind of more abstract and intellectual but teach some really important lessons in life like machiavelli and some social concepts that are still relevant today like etienne's book (which he wrote at 16 or 18 btw)
I just finished reading Albert Camus' "The Stranger" today and this video was recommended. Wow.
The #1 book you should read based on this video is Alain De Botton's "Consolations of Philosophy." It's amazing! Perspectives of life from Socrates, Seneca, Epicurus, Montaigne, Neichze, & Schopenhauer
One book I can recommend is "Meandering Sobriety". Although it's a philosophical book, it is a bit humorous and still thought-provoking. The book is a series of funny and thought-stimulating stories that will help you have a moment of escape from hustle reality to see and understand it deeper. Most importantly, it's short and can be completed in a day.
Wonderful and great advice from a one of the greatest Philosophers and Thinkers of our time Robert Greene.
I've had the honour to read them all except Albert Camus and I've had read the books of Robert Greene himself.
Heracleitos, Epictetus, Vivekananda, Carl Jung, Henry Miller
Great list from western philosophy. People who are interested in the stoics should also look at the Taoist books like Lao zhi, zhuāngzi , liezi , I Ching and a few confucian books like the analect.
The Manual and discourses of Epictetus, I found them very much applicable than The meditations.
Michael tsarion is certainly one of the greatest philosophers of our times imo. It takes a lot of time to get the the full scope of that man's work.
Epicurus, Nagarjuna, Schopenhauer, Camus
I think that in contemporary philosophy there are still really interesting books, in the field of philosophy of mind or language, but if we are talking about care for the soul and mental hygiene/motivation, psychology is in our times better for this. Nonetheless, in contemporary moral philosophy/ethics you can always find something interesting / worthy of time and post-phenomenological research is fascinating on whatever topic, even walking, food, sex etc.
Literally, 'the love of wisdom' can only really come from a 'polymath' approach, otherwise it fossilises into a dry, bland 'subject' for 'academics' to 'ponder', and is buried along with anything else considered 'uncool'! This is why, for me, it is only a living, breathing thing...offering the chance of personal becoming. I occasionally delve into some of the previous 'great minds' of Humanity, but essentially, as a species, we are part of a process we have called 'evolution', and whatever 'philosophy' we carry with us is an aid to this process.. I feel that all of those 'greats' were at least partly aware of this, and were inspired by the same aims..
Curious what's in his record collection
My favorite is 'Truth : Shall set you free' by Aman Jain. I read it recently and his philosophical ideas and introspection of the complex phenomenon of life is marvellous, and present an untraditional way of viewing the world. It is the most thought provoking book in my opinion.
Can you share the link of the book? I don't seem to find this book with the title.
I have read at least a book from all the listed philosophers. It changes the you think TBH
I'm an analytic guy myself, but I cannot fault the five choices you've made for the reasons you've stated. Nietzsche was my first and favorite philosopher, and is still among my favorites, but my top 10 list includes 8 analytic philosophers and two (including Nietzsche) that wouldn't traditionally count as analytic philosophers.
Let’s see this top 10 list
@@josephmartinez4275
Top 5
1. Aristotle
2. Wittgenstein
3. Nietzsche
4. Kant
5. Frege
6. Russell
7. Plato
8. Kripke
9. Quine
10. Hume
"Philosophy should be fun, it should be exciting..."
This is a normative assertion which stands to be substantiated, a task which is not clearly achievable and which many people do not consider "fun and exciting."
I have got the books 'Beyond Good and Evil' by Friedrich Nietzsche and 'The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination' by Jacob Bronowski.
...do you describing the impact/importance of books or the feeling you got?!
Hi Robert, what was Albert Camus life task in your words?
This is my favorite book
Words for Our Time: The Spiritual Words of Matthew the Poor
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If you want something that relates to the modern day, switch “20th century” with 21st century and check out Slavoj Zizek, Mark Fisher, and Nick Land. They are probably the best for talking about modern day stuff
Robert's world of Null-A :-)
1. It's amazing to see how different philosophy is seen by Americans in contradistiction to us, Europeans.
2. Descartes is the most relevant and influential philosopher of the "Middle Age", almost contemporary of Montaigne. Modernity is started with Descartes. Still, he doesn't apply for the purpose of the video.
3. The best books ever written in the 20th century were The Rebel (Camus) and The Forest Passage (Ernst Jünger).
Montagna ?
It's Michel de Montaigne
Remember Robert wasn’t successful until after his books. He analyzed old rulers and climbers of power. For good and bad. He never applied these principles to everyday life let alone a political one.
To be clear, these are writers and not books.
He’s so right about modern philosophy- way too abstract/intellectual.
* Emerson * Emerson * Emerson * “Lessons From An American Stoic”……Philosophy Must First Teach Us How To Uplift Ourselves And Catapult Us Into “Awe and Wonder” thereby giving us the succor we need to traverse the trials and tribulations of outrageous misfortune……then after we are adept at the art of living can we begin to dive in to the world’s philosophers 🦅
0:23 I can’t hear the second name he says. Heraclitus and ???
The ultimate definition of insanity….. replying what he says over and over and still can’t get that name. It sounds like Pericles, but the pictures don’t match up with what he shows. I’m not sure 🤔
Can anyone list the Authors mentioned???
Philosophers Mentioned:
Heraclitus
Pericles
Plato
Seneca
Marcus Aurelius
Michel de Montaigne
Friedrich Nietzsche
Albert Camus
Books Mentioned:
The Republic - Plato
Phaedrus - Plato
Symposium - Plato
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
swami vivekananda ji*
Great list, but surprised he didn’t list more German philosophers like Schopenhauer. I was also thinking of Bertrand Russell. I also am put off by philosophy that is too abstract. You’re never sure whether you just don’t understand, or whether it’s just abstruse and bad writing.
Dostoyevsky ?
Sun Tzu.
( REHAB TIME! ) BOOKS R TO REMIND US WATT AZZES AND FOOLS WEE R. FACTS OVA FEELINGS!
Shards Of Divinities is an incredible novel that will transform you spiritually and intellectually. It's about the intersection between science/logic and religion/spirituality. The novel is available on that site named after a river in South America.
Why not Aristotle?
His work is all fragmented and comes from student notes, so it's very incomplete and disorganized.
@@mgregory22 ok, I see. Thnx
Doesn't he look like he's in the middle of a nervous breakdown?
And bros know that you shouldn't always follow his advice
You should be as much free and open to experience as determined and close minded
Like read anyone you like you can even read marquis de sade and adorno if you like them both
Just have fun
The greatest Philosophy books for life are:
Plato's Dialogues
Aristoteles Ethics, his Rhetoric, Topic, Poetic, Politic and his Kategorie.
Seneca's letters
Ciceros books
Lucretius's books
Plinius juniors letters
Plinius the elders letters
Epictetus Discourses
Marcus Aurelius Meditations
Buddha
Konfuzius
Laotse
Sun Tzus Art of war
Bidpai Fables and Ibn al Muqaffas Fables
Ibn al Muqaffas books and letters
Syaset Nameh
Niccolo Machiavellis books especially the Prince
Balthasar Gracians book the oracle of the world's wisdom
Thomas Morus Utopia
Erasmus von Rotterdams books
Thomas Hobbes Leviathan
Giambattista Vico
Pico della Mirandola
Friedrich Nietzsches books
Arthur Schopenhauers books
Max Webers books
Ismail Mazhars books
Ali Schariatis books
Peter Sloterdijks books like the spheres, the conflict on the human park and so on
Michel Foucaults books
Karl Poppers books
Ludwig Wittgensteins books
Jochen Kirchhoffs books
Thomas Kuhns books
Richard David Prechts books
David Buss books
Robert Greenes books
Jordan Petersons books
Napoleon Hills books
Johann Wolfgang von Goethes books
Friedrich Schillers books
Ralph Waldo Emersons books
Thomas Carlyles books
Will Durants, John Deweys, John Lockes, William James, Charles Sanders Pierces, Stuart Mills, John Stuart Mills, Jeremy Benthams, René Descartes, Baruch Spinozas, Immanuel Kants, Émile Durkheims, Gustave le Bons, Auguste Comtes, Condorocets, Malthus's, Maslow's, Freuds, Hermann Hesses, Hermann Schmitz's, Rudolf Steiners, Jungs, Adlers, Wilhelm Reichs, Viktor Frankls, Erich Fromms, Jean Jacques Rousseaus, Montesquieus, Jean Piagets and Alexis Carrels books
Michael de Montaignes Essays
Hans Küngs books like his book what I believe
Martin Heideggers books
Joseph Campbells books
Martin Wehrles books
George Berkeleys and David Humes books
Adam Smiths, William Stanley Jevons Books
Marcus Gabriel's books
Volker Gerhardts books
The book Darwin hits Kant
Thomas Pikettys books
Thomas Wangenheims book Kultur und Ingenium
Oswald Spenglers, Gustav von Grunebaums, Annemarie Schimmels, Stefan Weinfurters, Michael Stürmers and Arnold Toynbees books
Rüdiger Safranskis books
Stefan Zweigs books
Hegel's, Schellings, Schleiermachers, Humboldts, Herders, Fichte's books and so on
Georg Christoph Lichtenbergs Essays
Tagore
Ocho
Krishnamurti
Meister Eckhart
Hildegard von Bingen
Theresa von Avila
Boethius
Augustinus
Ficino
Ibn Maskauih
Ibn Khaldun
Avicenna
Averroes
and so on
And also the literature masterpieces from the international literature treasure like Goethe, Schiller, Hölderlin, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Heine, Kafka, Hesse, Rückert, Thomas Mann, the brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Erasmus von Rotterdam, Servantes, Balthasar Gracian, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Shakespeare, John Milton, Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Lewis Carroll, William Blake, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Christopher Marlow, J.K.Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien, Martin, Stefanie Meyer, Edgar Allan Poe, Michel de Montaigne, Molière, Baudelaire, Viktor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Balzac, Voltaire, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Montesquieu, Marcel Proust, Jean la Fontaine and so on, Boccaccio, Francesco Petrarca, Niccolo Machiavelli, the author of the Godfather, Gorge Luis Borges, Paolo Coelho and so on, Bidpai, the Vedas, the Mahabharata, Tagore and so on, Ibn al Muqaffa, Saadi Schirazi, Hafiz Schirazi, Firdausi, Muhammad Iqbal, Ali Schariati, Omar al Khayyam, Mulla Dschami, Sanai and so on, Dostojewski, Tolstoï, Chekhov, Turgenjew, Alexandre Pushkin, Gogol, Maxim Gorki, the Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Indian, ancient greek and ancient hellenic and ancient Roman, ancient persian, ancient iranian, ancient bekhterian and medieval literatures and mythologies.
😯😯😯😯.....You have suggested alot😀
@@channelzeroisaspiritualcha4296
I know 😂
Wow, thanks for the list!
Mont-tain-ya? Seriously???
I just watched a video of a French guy saying that's how it's pronounced. So what are you shocked about exactly?
Montaigne understands insecurity , highly recommend
Marcus and the stoics are nice. (Marcus above all, and of course, Seneca.)
Nietzsche is excellent as well. 👌
Plato…. Eh. 😑
Any recommendations for philosophy outside of the Mediterranean or Europe?
Any “eastern” philosophers?
Are there any yellow or brown philosophers out there with lessons one can easily put to practice???
This is just your list, right? I get it.
Those stoics are watered down Cynics and Plato’s limited views offered nothing new to the yogi’s and yogini of Afghanistan, India and beyond. ( Here is your man. 🐓)
No wisdom from the Vedas or numerous Upanishad? Nothing from the Mahabharata?
Nothing at all worth mentioning?
No Shantideva, no Confucius, no Lao Tzu?
Too primitive? Lao Tzu probably didn’t exist so that doesn’t count?
Is religion that much of a stumbling block that we should forget the beauty and insight of Persian poetry or the exotic and esoteric literature that is so-called “Christian” mysticism?
No constructive, easily applied philosophies for today to be found there in?
The Dhammapada is no more than a collection of ancient folk songs that children would sing for fun and it is a gem mine when compared to such works as “Republic”.
Diogenes wrote nothing down, as was his want, Plato and Socrates did and to the glee of intellectual dick swingers everywhere.
Needless to say, I think the bulk of Greek and Roman philosophy is a bit overrated and more than a little flawed.
Again, I get it. This is your list and it’s typical.
It’s a good thing you have all them, thar books or else I wouldn’t believe ya to be truly edgenegated. I sure like a showman. (Queue spittoon sound effect.) 🤠
Ah, now I just sound like a prick. 🌵
“If You Give A Mouse A Cookie” another philosophical classic.
Sure, it’s not funny to you but don’t you realize that comedians are today’s philosophers.
I blame that boot, stamping on our face forever. 😅😵💫🍻
You can get good philosophy from comic books, kids!!!
“God Loves, Man Kills” I mean, c’mon, the tittle alone. 😳🤦♂️
Go on and read Ya some Plato.
Then when you grow up, look back at those times with nostalgia and wonder at how we deceive ourselves so easily.
You’re a sly product of Yakub. “The great Satan, that wounded snake”
Alright, I gotta gtf outta here. 🤣🤣🤣✌️📖
therapy, before you end up a school shooter or end up in a right wing cult 😓😓
So who would you recommend?
@@deanodog3667 Other than what I had mentioned (and excluding my shout out to the Nation of Islam and mice who eat cookies 🍪) I would add The Buddha and His Teachings edited by Samuel Bercholz and Sherab Chodzin Kohn as this is an excellent collection of various teachings from a number of philosophers and psychologists. And speaking of psychology, Carl Jung goes exceedingly well with the study of Nietzsche and seems to be experiencing a kind of resurgence today.
Another, would be Alan Watts. While he is often times associated with high-strung hippies trying hard to be trendy, eating mushrooms and praising Terence Mckenna, his philosophies are, for the most part, sound and easily understood/ easily put into practice.
As for more esoteric and poetic, the works of Jalaluddin Rumi and his Mathnawi is penetrating and insightful to say the least.
There are….a lot. And while some may seem to be on the fringes of what is called “classical thought” (…cough, cough, more dick swinging. 🤦♂️) we have to realize that philosophy can be found about anywhere.
Marvel’s “God Loves Man Kills” isn’t a joke.
I doubt the fascists at Disney will ever allow that movie to be made so read the graphic novel, kids.
And again, comedians, musicians, storytellers, artists…. Philosophies can be found embedded in all these mediums.
There is this race for first we gotta get over, too.
At the beginning of Shantideva’s Way of the Bodhisattva, he states, “Here I shall say nothing that has not been said before.”
and that is true for all of us, intellectual and mundane alike.
I have heard some of the most inspiring words come from them who have little or nothing. Who go unnoticed in this existence.
These beings, while known by few, are just as valid as anyone with a PhD in philology or religious anthropology.
@@abysscallstoabyss55 that's great thanks , I read somewhere that Thoreau was heavily influenced by eastern philosophy also ?!
@@abysscallstoabyss55 as you say , everything ultimately has its source in the east !
You can skip all those books and study the teachings of the BUDDHA(SIDDHARTHA GAUTAMA), his teachings cover everything in those 5 books, yea? "EVERY WISH FULFILLED" E.T.
Mere Christianity.
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Do not read Philosophy books until you are over the age of 35 years old.
😂..what about people studying bachelor's in philosophy!!!
@artofsuresh SARCASM DUDE!!
@artofsuresh not sure but perhaps because "ignorance is bliss"
Alright.
Haha, that’s probably very true