Tuesday, December 02, 2014

Influences …

… Philosophical Youth – We asked some of the world’s most important philosophers which three books influenced them the most while undergraduate students…  — Demasiado Aire. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

For what it's worth, the three for me (though I am not a philosopher) were William Luijpen's Existential Phenomenology, Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, and Nicolas Berdyaev's The Destiny of Man.

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous9:16 AM

    Were I (another person who is not a philosopher) asked the same question, I could not exclude the Bible from the list. I would also include The Poetics and The Varieties of Religious Experience. But, hey, that's just idiosyncratic me.

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