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 >>24904043I 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
>>24917692>Encyclopaedia Britannica (what is the better version?)11th Edition
Read literally anything from this list that interests you and you'll be better off for it.
>>24917839I see the name of the essayists but not the name of the essays. Is there a more detailed account of this "reading list"?
>>24917839this is too much
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)
>Economics in One Lesson - Henry Hazlitt>Principles of Economics - N. Gregory Mankiw>Basic Economics - Thomas Sowell
>>24917692Focus on the Trivium before caring about anything else.
https://libgen.li/edition.php?id=137170227https://youtu.be/AOcy6RHw7A8
>>24919213>trivium>t. larper
sounds like dilettante slop
>>24920084Got any dilettante recs? I want to came out to my parents as a dilettante
>>24920408Come*
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 Romanahttps://archive.org/details/familia-romanaaudiohttps://archive.org/details/familia-romana-and-colloquia-personarum-audio-files>>>/t/1344565exercitia latinahttps://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.pdfcolloquia personarumhttps://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.pdfneumann companionhttps://leftychan.net/edu/src/1608528074592-0.pdfanswer keyhttps://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.pdf01 https://files.catbox.moe/zj3yws.mp402 https://files.catbox.moe/3t7sc3.mp403 https://files.catbox.moe/1cjlwe.mp404 https://files.catbox.moe/5ljwg8.mp405 https://files.catbox.moe/etzxkw.mp406 https://files.catbox.moe/0kh9gs.mp407 https://files.catbox.moe/1hntqg.mp408 https://files.catbox.moe/559z4u.mp409 https://files.catbox.moe/heuw4i.mp410 https://files.catbox.moe/n9gpgw.mp411 https://files.catbox.moe/zvf2dc.mp412 https://files.catbox.moe/a0art4.mp413 https://files.catbox.moe/n580tf.mp414 https://files.catbox.moe/h2eikt.mp415 https://files.catbox.moe/rqbjv6.mp416 https://files.catbox.moe/wi5xus.mp417 https://files.catbox.moe/ht9noe.mp418 https://files.catbox.moe/9ospv5.mp419 https://files.catbox.moe/9o2h9f.mp420 https://files.catbox.moe/r1bafj.mp421 https://files.catbox.moe/x6y9sd.mp422 https://files.catbox.moe/65vrqi.mp423 https://files.catbox.moe/2tybr2.mp424 https://files.catbox.moe/5nlup0.mp425 https://files.catbox.moe/kwehqn.mp426 https://files.catbox.moe/7rim8t.mp427 https://files.catbox.moe/464bxv.mp428 https://files.catbox.moe/f2k98o.mp429 https://files.catbox.moe/kfoafs.mp430 https://files.catbox.moe/xmf1qc.mp431 https://files.catbox.moe/2svzr7.mp4https://youtu.be/49Zeo4Qbw8Y
Isaac Asimov was great general knowledge writer, not only popular science and sci-fi. For example, he wrote a guide to the Bible.
>>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?
>>24917692no 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.
>>24922387I'm more of a Vernunftlehre-person myself.https://archive.org/details/vernunftlehre00meie
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNnqqvK2yDEFVdM_5wV4Od8kV2GaSo7jzhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivial_school
>>24917692What are some good books on the evolution of political concepts like picrel?
>>24922579This?
>>24924543yeah. that will do. some psychohistory would be nice as well.