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5 Book Recommendations on Existential Philosophy (Patreon)

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Hello my wonderful Patrons!

For this casual video, we'll be looking at 5 book recommendations to get started with the ever-thorny topic of existential philosophy.

I hope you like it, and let me know anything else you would like me to cover.

Thank you so much for all your support.

  • Joe :)

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Michael

A very helpful list, thanks Joe. I'm very fond of Kierkegaard and have read and pondered him for years. I'm also familiar with Sartre, though he's not a favorite of mine. To my shame, I must confess to never having read "The Myth of Sisyphus." I'll give it a read after I finish a book by Nietsche, to whom you inspired me to give a second look.

Ákos Forman

Thank you for the video, I'll try to go and read them when I find the time. I've only read Ecclesiastes even though I'm not religious. 2 things stood out for me particularly, the very end when he talks about children, and cycles. I'm still kind of a child with my modest 16 years of egzistance, so it was somewhere nice to read, that there's a part in the bible that pats my shoulder and says that I can still afford to be a bit unresponsable. Cycles stood out, because I don't feel the contradiction between meaning and the fact that we live day by day by day and without "new under the sun". First of all, I think cycles (sorry for repeating it this many times) have the crucial advantage of showing progress, because if let's say you start learning to cook, then you get better day by day, week by week, and you can look back and reasonably formulate how much progress you've made. Plus I do think there is new under the sun, for example our language changed quite a lot, we have more and more culture every year, sciences have progressed to a then unimaginable level and so on. This comment got a bit long. The point is, I am this very weird sort of animal who loves learning more and more about philosophy and keeps pondering that how is it, that some of the greatest minds tried to figure out a good antidote to nihilism and could only get so far. I think the answer lies in exploring life. Searching for some pieces of it that make you happy, while being able to put food on the table. I know it's very broad and a bit bs but I don't think that life has as many rules as we make it out to have. After all we're all just a bunch of apes with stellar technology trying to figure out how to live well with a brain accustomed to survival in the African wilderness.

Terry Smithwick

I was astonished to hear you recommend Ecclesiastes and was glad to hear your explanation.

Phil Voelker

Hey Joe! I'm Philusteen on YouTube. In your latest YouTube release on "craziest philosophers," you mention working on a piece about optimism - there's an older "corporate optimization" book called Good to Great, by Jim Collins, that has a brilliant piece about what he refers to as the Stockdale Paradox - it's a particularly colorful example of optimism and the perils of wielding it imprecisely. Anyway, cheers and thanks for all you do, man. 🖖

tigerlily

I would love to see videos on summaries of various philosophers from different times and places and the lives they led from Xenocrates to Hobbes,Descartes to Bossuet, Jacobi to Camus. Maybe one quick video on each for the uninitiated, and maybe throw in whether they were popular in their day or jailed like Gallileo, or killed for their beliefs. I wouldnt even mind an artist or two thrown in for good measure. Art in itself is a type of visual philosophy esp folks like Dali, Rodin, Delacroix to Egon Schiele. or even composers, like chopin, mendlesohn or Franz Liszt, Bizet etc...Not sure what part of the uk you live, but you live in such a diverse region where culture, literature and the wonder of nature is just around the bend. Trains to other countries are easily accessible unlike the states...

tigerlily

you may take it for granted perhaps. That europe's your backyard. Prague, budapest and vienna even athens and Istanbul are just a stones throw away. I'd love to see you go outside to film in front of a street or home of these poets of knowledge. Even some "cemetery gates, where keats and yeats are on your side but wilde is on mine. " the Pere Lechaise is chock full of the who's who. even Jim Morrison of the doors. I think Camus is buried either near Montparnasse or someplace south near those ancient caves. Even if you cannot travel far, you can use a green screen, yes? Here i stand in front of the Tuileries. But i finally did get to visit many parts of Europe last year, by train and by car. I got to finally visit Prague for the 1st time and it was teaming with krauts and brits. Y'all can take advantage that czechs arent on the euro. Im sure you can get a friend to hold a camera and another to hold a mic. Oh and wear a different jumper...You could let your fans send a few!

tigerlily

There must be non-philosophical works you can recommend? fiction or non-fiction. I am reading a tonne of non-fiction at present esp ww 2 history. Is Paris Burning was fascinating. But if i were 16 to 24, i'd say hey go and check out The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers. also who turned you on to delving into the philosophical realm? your parents, professors or peers or something outside all of the above, do tell?!!!

Lizelle Van Wyk

lol. I just made a list for myself, "advice from Joe" and only in reading it realised the irony.

Lizelle Van Wyk

Ecclesiastes has always been my favourite book in the Bible. I'm doing a 'read the Bible in one year' in 6 months thing. the wisdom literature is due as of next week. starting with proverbs, going through Ecclesiastes and ending with Job. I'm kinda new to your work, so I'm not sure if you've done anything on Job yet. Or Carl Jung, in particular, I guess, his Answer to Job. I intend to read that again when I get to Job too. sigh. so much to read and now there's all your unsolicited book recommendations too.