Recommend me some books please? Thank you for all the suggestions. I have downloaded more books by Neitszche, Dostoevsky, Schopenhauer, David Hume, Kirkegaard and Camus for my Kindle.
Nishitani, Heidigger, Stirner, Plato, McCulloch and Austin are all writers I will check out next once I have read the books I have already.
In addition to these, Nausea arrived this morning and I am looking forward to reading it. I just have to finish Beyond Good And Evil first, but I am nearing the end.
I think it's great that you can enjoy Nietzsche without agreeing with everything he writes. As I see it, reading philosophy is exposing one's self to vivid, eloquent personalities. They are sometimes a little "crazy" or "obsessive," but their beauty lies in this excess. As we keep reading, we learn to take from them what we can fit into our own, unique lives. We are ourselves become philosophers by trying to fit all the incompatible pieces together.
What I enjoy about philosophy thus far, as a newcomer, is that the ideas expressed in philisophical texts provoke thought. Even if I do not necessarily agree with certain points, I can at least understand the reasoning behind them. It is an enriching experience to have your ideas and perceptions challenged in such an eloquent fashion.