Anonymous
10/31/2025, 10:24:02 PM
No.24844979
>>24843666
It depends. There are technical books which people should read but I'm not sure if they fulfill the meaning of literature anymore. Reading Darwin or Euclid, you'll get a half true idea which with empirical trial and error we have refined, you're better off learning with a textbook. In contrast, Hobbes, Heidegger and the like discuss ideas which don't have an empirical basis, and they become unique sources of information which you must read. Poems and novels and plays are the easiest to place in such a list. The maximal list must be a few hundred books.
It depends. There are technical books which people should read but I'm not sure if they fulfill the meaning of literature anymore. Reading Darwin or Euclid, you'll get a half true idea which with empirical trial and error we have refined, you're better off learning with a textbook. In contrast, Hobbes, Heidegger and the like discuss ideas which don't have an empirical basis, and they become unique sources of information which you must read. Poems and novels and plays are the easiest to place in such a list. The maximal list must be a few hundred books.