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General knowledge general: /gk/
Inspired by this anon >>24912490
>What are some books I should read if I want to expand my general knowledge?
and the resources shared in this other thread >>24904043
I want to share some suggestions and maybe start a pastebin:
>The Propaedia - Encyclopaedia Britannica (what is the better version?)
>A Guidebook to Learning: For a Lifelong Pursuit of Wisdom - Mortimer J. Adler
>Chaos of Disciplines - Andrew Abbott
>The Great Tradition: Classic Readings on What it Means to Be an Educated Human Being - Richard M. Gamble
>Textos Fundamentales Para La Historia - Miguel Artola Gallego
>The Great Conversation: The Substance Of A Liberal Education - Robert Maynard Hutchins
>The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods - Antonin Sertillanges
>Introduction to Concepts and Theories in Physical Science - Gerald Holton, Stephen G. Brush
>The Princeton Companion to Mathematics - Timothy Gowers
>What is Mathematics: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods - Richard Courant, Herbert Robbins
>Messages, Signs, and Meanings_ A Basic Textbook in Semiotics and Communication - Marcel Danesi
>Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software - Charles Petzold
>The Use and Abuse of art - Jacques Barzun
>Very Short Introductions (VSI) - Oxford University Press book series
Share recs/alternatives/objections
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>>24917692
>Encyclopaedia Britannica (what is the better version?)
11th Edition
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Read literally anything from this list that interests you and you'll be better off for it.
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>>24917839
I see the name of the essayists but not the name of the essays. Is there a more detailed account of this "reading list"?
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>>24917839
this is too much
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For mathematics:
>Alice in Numberland: A Students' Guide to the Enjoyment of Mathematics - John Baylis, Rod Haggarty (1991)
>Anatomy of Mathematics, The - R. B. Kershner, L. R. Wilcox (1950)
>Beginning Mathematical Logic: A Study Guide - Peter Smith (2024)
>Fundamentals of Abstract Analysis - Andrew M. Gleason (1991)
>Mathematics: Form and Function - Saunders Mac Lane (1986)
>Mathematics Made Difficult: A Handbook for the Perplexed - Carl E. Linderholm (1971)
>Mathematics: The Music of Reason - Jean A. Dieudonné (1992)
>The Mathematical Experience: Study Edition - Philip J. Davis, Reuben Hersh, Elena Anne Marchisotto (2012)
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>Economics in One Lesson - Henry Hazlitt
>Principles of Economics - N. Gregory Mankiw
>Basic Economics - Thomas Sowell
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>>24917692
Focus on the Trivium before caring about anything else.
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https://libgen.li/edition.php?id=137170227

https://youtu.be/AOcy6RHw7A8
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>>24919213
>trivium
>t. larper
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sounds like dilettante slop
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>>24920084
Got any dilettante recs? I want to came out to my parents as a dilettante
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>>24920408
Come*
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Old books are generally the best, 18th and 19th century.

I'm collecting old language textbooks, and also old general grammar books.

In the Trivium the grammar was Latin so I recommend learning Latin.

Familia Romana
https://archive.org/details/familia-romana

audio
https://archive.org/details/familia-romana-and-colloquia-personarum-audio-files
>>>/t/1344565

exercitia latina
https://dn721508.ca.archive.org/0/items/lingua-latina-per-se-illustrata_202506/Lingua%20Lat%C4%ABna%20per%20s%C4%93%20ill%C5%ABstr%C4%81ta/Pars%20I/Exercitia%20Lat%C4%ABna%20I.pdf

colloquia personarum
https://dn721508.ca.archive.org/0/items/lingua-latina-per-se-illustrata_202506/Lingua%20Lat%C4%ABna%20per%20s%C4%93%20ill%C5%ABstr%C4%81ta/Pars%20I/Suppl%C4%93menta/%C3%98rberg%2C%20Colloquia%20pers%C5%8Dn%C4%81rum.pdf

neumann companion
https://leftychan.net/edu/src/1608528074592-0.pdf

answer key
https://dn721508.ca.archive.org/0/items/lingua-latina-per-se-illustrata_202506/Lingua%20Lat%C4%ABna%20per%20s%C4%93%20ill%C5%ABstr%C4%81ta/Teacher%27s%20Materials.pdf

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https://youtu.be/49Zeo4Qbw8Y
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Isaac Asimov was great general knowledge writer, not only popular science and sci-fi. For example, he wrote a guide to the Bible.
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>>24917692
>Open Syllabus is a massive non-profit archive of the main activity of higher education: teaching. It provides top-down views of the curriculum across thousands of schools to support curricular innovation, lifelong learning, and student success.
https://analytics.opensyllabus.org/record/works?
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>>24917692
no Wissenschaftslehre? for shame.

>>the Science of Knowledge has no aid, no substrate of its contemplation, except that contemplation itself, it can elevate the human mind to a higher degree than any geometry can do. It gives to the mind not only attentiveness, ability and firmness, but at the same time absolute self-reliance, by forcing it to be alone with itself, and to live and rule within itself. All other mental labor is comparatively an infinitely easy task; and he who has practice in that science, finds no task difficult. Add to this, that by penetrating all objects of human knowledge into their very centre, it accustoms the eye to seize the true central point in everything which may occur to it, and steadily to pursue this point. Hence, for a practised teacher of the Science of Knowledge, there is nothing difficult, confused or dark, provided he knows the object under consideration. It is always an easy task for him to build up everything anew and from the very beginning, carrying as he does within him the outlines for every scientific structure, and an easy task to get a clear view of the most intricate science.
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>>24922387
I'm more of a Vernunftlehre-person myself.

https://archive.org/details/vernunftlehre00meie
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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNnqqvK2yDEFVdM_5wV4Od8kV2GaSo7jz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivial_school
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>>24917692
What are some good books on the evolution of political concepts like picrel?
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>>24922579
This?
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>>24924543
yeah. that will do. some psychohistory would be nice as well.



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