Design your own canon or teaching course. What books do you include?
It can be based on anything, an era, a movement, a theme, or even (your name) canon. Whatever you want
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Design your own canon or teaching course. What books do you include?
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>INFLUENCES
(Ancient)
Homer, Odyssey & Iliad
Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica
Ovid, Metamorphoses
Virgil, Aeneid
(Medieval)
Dante, Divina Commedia
Pearl Poet, Gawain and the Green Knight
Arnaut Daniel, Collected Poems
Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur
(Elizabethan and Post-Elizabethan)
Shakespeare, Complete Plays, Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece & Sonnets
Kit Marlowe, Dr Faustus
Spenser, The Faerie Queene
Milton, Samson Agonistes, Paradise Lost & Paradise Regained
>GOTHIC & ROMANTIC
Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
John William Polidori, Vampyre
Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Monk & Melmoth the Wanderer
Edgar Allan Poe, Poems (especially The Raven & Annabel Lee) & Tales (particularly The Tell-Tale Heart & Murders in the Rue Morgue)
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, Fantasy Pieces in Callot's Manner & Night Pieces
>VICTORIAN TO EDWARDIAN
Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
Bram Stoker, Dracula
Oscar Wilde, Poems, The Portrait of Dorian Gray & Lord Arthur Saville's crime & Other Stories
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskerville
Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan, The White People & Short Stories
>MODERN (1905 TO 1940s)
Algernon Blackwood, The Wendigo, The Willows & The Centaur
Lord Dunsany, Gods of Pegana, Poems & Tales
Ambrose Bierce, Collected Works
William Hope Hodgson, The Night Land & Tales
H.P. Lovecraft, Collected Stories (especially The Call of Cthulhu, At the Mountains of Madness & The Colour Out of Space), The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath & Poems (especially Fungi from Yuggoth)
Clark Ashton Smith, Zothique Tales, Poems & Stories (particularly The Hunters from Beyond)
C.L. Moore, Collected Stories (particularly Black God's Kiss)
Robert E. Howard, Conan Stories (The Tower of the Elephant) & Solomon Kane Stories (especially Red Shadows)
>COLD WAR (1950s to 1960s)
N/A
>HORROR BOOM PERIOD (70s to 80s)
N/A
>DIGITAL AGE (1990s TO 2020s)
N/A
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>Introduction
How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler
Aristotle's Organon
Poetics and Rhetoric of Aristotle
Manual of Zen by D. T. Suzuki
>Cyberia
Selection of old Usenet posts
Selected old IQfy memes
Phrack Magazine articles
Any manual for a traditional telephone headset
>Computer
C Programming
SICP
Linux Command Line by William Shotts
>Mathematik
On Arithmetic by Nichomachus
Theory of Parallels by Lobachevsky
>Film
Every Kurosawa movie
Every Kairostami movie except Ten
Godzilla
>Politics
Wretched of the Earth by Fanon
Thinking Like a State by James Scott
Birth of Biopolitics by Foucault
>Religion
Ecclesiastes
The Holy Quran
Neon Genesis Evangelion and End of Evangelion
School trip to /x/
>Education
Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich
>Aristotle's Organon
>Poetics and Rhetoric of Aristotle
Philosophy major from a university with a heavily pro-Roman Catholic, pro-Thomist philosophy department here.
I never had to read Aristotle's Organon, Poetics, or Rhetoric for class. I read fragments from Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics for one ethics course I took, and I also read bits from Aristotle's Metaphysics and small fragments from Aristotle's Physics, but I never had to read anything from Aristotle in full.
Aristotle's ideas are extremely straightforward and intuitive, but the way he writes is probably one of the most boring and excessively repetitive ways I've ever seen any philosophers write (which makes sense when you take into account what is left from his works are actually notes left by his students from his lectures, rather than final manuscripts for treatises meant to be published). Unlike Kant or Hegel, who dealt with lots of unintuitive concepts and unique takes on ideas, Aristotle's way of thinking just seems like the common man's way of thinking, which is why a lot of his ideas can be summarized within less than 20 pages without losing much (except, perhaps, for a few metaphors and explanations that you could probably do without if your IQ is slightly above fridge temperature).
Frick reading Aristotle. Read a summary of his works if you can instead.
>Ecclesiastes
>The Holy Quran
>Neon Genesis Evangelion and End of Evangelion
Ok, it's obvious this is a troll post, but eh, what can I say? I gotta vent out in some way or another.
Why should we be concerned with what's easy to read for students or care whatever academic universities do? When I learned colleges only ever teach extracts I begun to lose respect for them. I'm not gonna dilute anything for my students. I don't care about professionalism or consistency either. I will teach them so they're not like those bots you see in schools. Think independently, unconventionally, in fact don't think at all! This doesn't don't be rigorous, as you can see I included unix and C programming to keep teh mind sharp and allow them to actually make stuff.
90% of a college education is just introducing you to a field and moulding your brain to think like the people who already run it. What if we could mould them to a different end? Arbitrary randomness where they apply a bunch of basic medieval scholastic analytical skills to a bunch of jumbled classic books, films, anime, and sludge from /b/? What would they turn into?
>Aristotle's ideas are extremely straightforward and intuitive
>Aristotle's way of thinking just seems like the common man's way of thinking
That's why he sucks! I would have picked something less heavy and intensive for logic but I don't know any good logic books and hate not using primary sources and Aristotles was the only name I could pull out of my head on short notice.
Eastern philosophy is superior but I can't find any of the classic Arabic logical primers in English.
>Aristotle's way of thinking just seems like the common man's way of thinking,
filterrrrrrrrrred
Logic
>the surviving fragments from the works of Xenophanes, Parmenides, and Zeno of Elea
>Plato's Euthyphro, Meno, Parmenides
>Aristotle's Categories, On Interpretation, Topics, a summary of the Prior and Posterior Analytics
>John Stuart Mill's Logic
>Gottlob Frege's On Sense and Reference, On Concept and Object
>Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
>W.V.O. Quine's Philosophy of Logic, Methods of Logic
call of the crocodile
I do not know where to start with German but, when you get to the second year -
>Easy Ways to Enlarge Your German Vocabulary by Karl Schmidt
>A German grammar for beginners by Paul Valentine Bacon
I just did this course on active shooters
I can't post in /misc/ because some weird image upload bug
so y'all can read this scary stuff
the catbox server is very slow now
/lit/erature you moronic homosexual
quote from op
>Whatever you want
and this thread is for you youngsters
even the intro says I can post here
philosophy
that whole stack is about active shooters and their weirdo mentality
My course would be a general study of the collected works of pic related. It would culminate in a student project where they have to choose a novel subject from history and dissect it the same way he does. There would be supplementary material that leads to a secoindary course study of classical languages, especially Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, and analysis of the cryptographic nature of ancient texts.
>2153 pages
Wow! That's a lot of words and taxpayer dollars! Too bad terrorism and mass shootings are fake news invented by the DHS, CIA, NSA, and FBI to justify their bloated budgets. Imagine wasting your life taking a course to identify and respond to imaginary events. Gotta keep the bureaucracy going somehow though.
>against the avant-garde
>writes avant-garde manifesto
>tolstoy and whistler are avant-garde
>using big scary words in the 21st century is avant-garde
Uh huh. Is Courbet avant-garde? Is Velazquez avant-garde to you, too? Anyways, why don't you actually go to his website and look? He's a classical artist who writes about a variety of topics. His poetry is alright but not my favorite. He also got into physics and math but I'm too stupid for that sort of thing.
Unironically yes
>course
I do this often ever since I was first tasked with designing an actual course. I make little fantasy courses built around a theme now and then, it's fun. Not posting them here though, in case I do get to teach them.
>canon
Just everything. Literally everything. I'm working on a draft outline for a really comprehensive history of western philosophy. So I just keep adding names and categorizing and ordering. Why would you exclude anything? Inclusion is the best way to respond if you disagree with something anyway.
I like your picrel's style but that guy feels too no-saying there so far, and only calls artists to yes-saying, he doesn't show by example yet. Anything else I can look at by them that would show what I mean? I've become a creative writer over this summer and he writes like me (and like Nietzsche) but I try to do it around a theme in a fiction, show don't tell sort of a thing, let the reader pick up on the running theme like when they're reading Borges or Lovecraft or some other short story author.
Nice but that's a history of logic more than a logic course. Folks should learn the more complicated and interesting recent advancements in formal language systems, because they're missign out if they only focus on an extensive history that leads up only to the development of a very small fragment of the available logics (syllogistic, sentential, first-order)
Here's an excerpt of his excerpt, from a book he was writing in the 90s. I don't think he's published the full materials but if you ask him in an email he might give you more. He's rather "rough and ready" in his correspondence, though, and paranoid because he gets flooded with emails from trolls, so try to prove you're not a troll if you do talk to him.
His writing regarding history and politics is much less artistic because it's utilitarian. He's writing it for us, not himself. If you're not interested in his research and ideas beyond an artistic facade then he's probably not for you. I'd go into further detail but I'll inevitably trigger canned responses like "meds" and "schizo". IQfy isn't the sort of place to discuss anything of importance and is effectively as castrated as any other social media website (posting a direct link to his website is "banned text"), but I try to talk to the few remaining real humans: people without financial agendas, genuine truth-seekers, and even the misguided malcontents with nothing better to do. Remember when the site switched from Google captcha to the current slider? For a solid 2 or 3 days, post counts plummetted. It was real anons only, and a completely different website.
>WESTERN EDUCATION IS SINFUL 101
Arabic language
Elementary Logic
>Philosophy
Ibn Arabi and Mulla Sadra
>Literature
Poems of al-Mutannabi
Ibn al-Farid
Abu Nuwas
Arabian Nights
>Sex
Ananga Ranga
>Law
The Ottoman Mecelle
>Politics
The Virtuous City by al-Farabi
Medieval Commentaries on Plato's Republic
Wretched of the Earth by Franz Omar Fanon
Guerrilla Warfare by Che Guevara
When I was in uni there was some long time tenured professor who taught a "history of rock" class which had a few staple albums he would have the class examine and then the rest was literally just whatever he was listening to at the time and felt like sharing
Anyway mine would just be all of nabokov's english works, and then whatever I was also reading at the moment and I would auto fail anyone who questioned me, just not reading them and writing a chatgpt generated essay on them would be a pass though