Is there a reading list for becoming a well rounded citizen?
start with the greeks
Your image suggests your goal is not being well rounded but being the king of insufferable asses.
>>24719513>A well-rounded citizen is not just someone who pays taxes and follows the law. That’s the bare minimum. A well-rounded citizen is someone who consciously develops and integrates multiple dimensions of life so they can contribute meaningfully to themselves, their community, and the broader human story.Dang...1. Foundations of Civic & Political ThoughtThese help you understand power, rights, and social responsibility:Plato – The Republic (justice, the ideal state, the citizen’s role)Aristotle – Politics (practical view of civic life and virtue)Machiavelli – The Prince (realpolitik; know how power really works)Thomas Paine – Common Sense (birth of modern democracy)John Stuart Mill – On Liberty (freedom vs. authority)2. Moral & Spiritual DevelopmentTo balance power with conscience:Marcus Aurelius – Meditations (self-mastery, duty, inner resilience)Confucius – Analects (ethics, harmony, civic virtue)The Bhagavad Gita (duty vs. detachment, universal responsibility)The Sermon on the Mount (core of compassion and nonviolence in civic life)3. Cultural & Historical LiteracySo you can stand in a wider human story:Herodotus – Histories or Thucydides – Peloponnesian War (the roots of history-writing and civic failure)Howard Zinn – A People’s History of the United States (bottom-up perspective)Yuval Noah Harari – Sapiens (broad sweep of human development)4. Economics & SocietyBecause citizenship is hollow without understanding systems of wealth and survival:Adam Smith – The Wealth of Nations (market principles)Karl Marx – Communist Manifesto (critique of capitalism; whether you agree or not, you must understand it)Amartya Sen – Development as Freedom (economics as empowerment)5. Science, Reason, and Human ProgressCitizenship without reason is manipulation:Francis Bacon – Novum Organum (foundations of scientific reasoning)Charles Darwin – On the Origin of Species (biology, evolution)Carl Sagan – The Demon-Haunted World (critical thinking, science vs superstition)6. Modern Perspective & Global ChallengesTo ground yourself in the issues you face today:Hannah Arendt – The Origins of Totalitarianism (how societies collapse into tyranny)George Orwell – 1984 (power, propaganda, surveillance)Rachel Carson – Silent Spring (environmental responsibility)Martha Nussbaum – Cultivating Humanity (global citizenship and empathy)
>>24719559thankyou chatgpt
>>24719571you're welcome, human
>>24719559holy reddit
>>24719580more like holy chatgptfor OP, read up on what mencius had to say about human nature. He's going to reinforce your view that you can grow into a more virtuous person, and also motivate you to spend your time wisely. I'm not saying he's got everything right, but Focus on your own moral development before getting into ideology. A good citizen is first and foremost a good man. Of course basic civic literacy is part of being a good citizen too, so if you know little about your country's political institutions, you should look into that as well.
>>24719535I'm going to be an insufferable ass no matter what, so might as well be the king of them. All these years as a plebian ass are finally paying off.
>>24719559>Yuval Noah Harari – Sapiens (broad sweep of human development)Into the trash it goes
>>24719513It’s called paying attention in school
Start with this: https://www.goarmysof.army.mil/Portals/100/Documents/SFAS%20PT%20handbook.pdf
>>24719663Hehehe…..king of the hill…of beans!
>>24719513the faerie queene dicourses on 6 virtues, holiness, temperance, chastity, friendship, justice, and courtesy. spenser wanted to write 18 more books, but i'm glad he didn't.
You don't need a reading list you only need these three things: A tight belly, a big chest, and a small flaccid penis.
>>24719513>https://naturallawinstitute.com/reading-list/Too long to copy it in here.
>>24720429>history section>0 primary sources
>>24719513The Federalist Papers if you're an American
Becoming a well rounded citizen is, frankly, a spook.
>>24720429imagine having three landmark books to recommend about "Art" and one of them is by Ayn Rand lmao
>>24719559This with some adjustments:For Cultural and Historical LiteracyAdd The Dawn Of Everything by the two Davids&Wittgenstein's Philosophical InvestigationsAnd then a lifelong, regular (not obsessive) sprinkling of diaspora fiction,This is because life is generative and not static, so language is, and so it's speakers are, think of this as category 6 from >>24719559being a constant lifelong projectnotables:Salt Houses - Hala AlyanEverything I Never Told You - Celeste NgA Place For Us - Fatima Farheen MirzaThe Namesake - JumpA Lahiri
