• biofaust@lemmy.world
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    Typical modern book as well. I keep reading classic philosophy just for being amazed at the amount of concepts crammed in under 100 pages.

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      Never read modern philosophy, but I had completely opposite experience with mid-late XIX century philosophy: too much words and too much repeating of the same thought from too many different angles. But I’m a technician type of guy so I might just have been unlucky with the set of authors. Never cared to read much of philosophy.

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        No, absolutely. At the very least from Hegel onwards, the game changes.

        I read Stoics, the few things we have from Epicureans, Plato, Aristotle and Cicero’s work on rhetoric.