best books on metaphysics - /lit/

best books on metaphysics - /lit/ (#24467104) [Archived: 926 hours ago]

Anonymous

6/15/2025, 1:11:56 AM No.24467104

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all right, /lit/niggas, the time's come, we will explore metaphysical texts. drop recommendations below with your reasons why it is a great book in the field of metaphysics.

and no, im not looking for any METAFISIKS ISNT WEAL retards, just comment if this thread correlates to you and you have a metaphysical text to share.

contemporary, time past, anything's cool.

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Anonymous

6/15/2025, 1:12:35 AM No.24467108

KantianHolyBook

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>>24467104 (OP)

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Anonymous

6/15/2025, 1:15:41 AM No.24467118

the-world-as-will-and-representation-2

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Come home.

Anonymous

6/15/2025, 1:17:08 AM No.24467124

>>24467108
Yes, Immanuel Kant destroyed metaphysics to strengthen it

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Anonymous

6/15/2025, 1:18:54 AM No.24467127

>>24467124
he literally founded a science

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Anonymous

6/15/2025, 1:28:26 AM No.24467149

>>24467127
Shut up retard, read Schopenhauer

Anonymous

6/15/2025, 1:30:00 AM No.24467151

>>24467104 (OP)
what is this book actually about?

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Anonymous

6/15/2025, 1:41:33 AM No.24467185

>>24467151
Clearly the multiple states of the being

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Anonymous

6/15/2025, 1:44:45 AM No.24467195

>>24467185
kek

Anonymous

6/15/2025, 2:13:51 AM No.24467228

PARMENIDES

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Anonymous

6/15/2025, 2:14:52 AM No.24467231

>>24467228
NOT THE PLATO BOOK, BUT PARMENIDES' POEM

Anonymous

6/15/2025, 2:28:56 AM No.24467270

>>24467104 (OP)
plotinus

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Anonymous

6/15/2025, 2:35:10 AM No.24467285

>>24467270
Where should someone start with his work, and for OP, read Duns Scotus

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Anonymous

6/15/2025, 2:41:20 AM No.24467297

>>24467285
life of plotinus by porphyry then just dive into the enneads

maybe skim something like this
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plotinus/

Anonymous

6/15/2025, 3:15:20 AM No.24467367

images (75)

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>>24467104 (OP)
I admit I got filtered

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Anonymous

6/15/2025, 3:16:27 AM No.24467370

IMG_3627

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>>24467104 (OP)

Anonymous

6/15/2025, 4:05:40 AM No.24467444

>>24467367
based.

Anonymous

6/15/2025, 6:13:10 AM No.24467640

Ananda Coomaraswamy

Anonymous

6/15/2025, 6:16:36 AM No.24467646

IMG_2669

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Anonymous

6/15/2025, 7:38:26 AM No.24467735

kant

Anonymous

6/15/2025, 7:26:39 PM No.24468853

real niggas only

Anonymous

6/15/2025, 7:28:50 PM No.24468862

>>24467104 (OP)
Enneads - Plotinus.
>>24467285
Oh. Nice.

Anonymous

6/15/2025, 7:38:07 PM No.24468890

enneads is all you need

Anonymous

6/15/2025, 7:43:44 PM No.24468913

IMG_3633

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>>24467104 (OP)

Anonymous

6/15/2025, 8:32:54 PM No.24469064

>>24467104 (OP)
>>24467104 (OP)
The phenomenology of spirit is probably the best book on metaphysics ever writen

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Anonymous

6/15/2025, 8:34:46 PM No.24469068

>>24467104 (OP)
Guenon doesn't do metaphysics, he barely knows anything about the field beyond some Aristóteles, all he does Is theology disguised as metaphysics, but he never engagaed with the most important aspects and authors of the metaphysical field

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Anonymous

6/15/2025, 8:58:37 PM No.24469105