How good is chatgpt for reading lists? I asked it for literature about animism to transcendentalism and it gave me this list1. Animism, Myth, and Original Meaning(Where meaning is in the world)The New Science — Giambattista Vico Foundational for the idea that early humans experienced reality as inherently meaningful.The Golden Bough — James George Frazer Classic (if dated) account of magic religion rationality.Animism: Respecting the Living World — Graham Harvey Modern reconstruction of animism as a worldview.The Sacred and the Profane — Mircea Eliade How traditional societies divide reality into meaningful (sacred) vs ordinary (profane).2. Greek Thought Transcendence Begins(Meaning starts moving beyond the world)Phaedo — Plato Soul vs body, true reality beyond the material.Metaphysics — Aristotle Unmoved mover, hierarchy of being.Enneads — Plotinus Radical transcendence; the One beyond being.3. Christianity and the Radical Transcendent Turn(Meaning grounded in a God beyond nature)Confessions — Augustine of Hippo Interiorization + transcendence.Summa Theologica — Thomas Aquinas Systematic account of God as transcendent creator.On the Incarnation — Athanasius of Alexandria God enters matter—important tension (transcendent yet incarnate).4. The Birth of the “Mechanical” World(Disenchantment begins)Novum Organum — Francis Bacon Nature as something to be analyzed and controlled.Principia Mathematica — Isaac Newton Mathematical universe, laws replace purposes.Meditations on First Philosophy — René Descartes Mind/body split matter becomes inert.5. Secularization & “Death of God”(Meaning crisis becomes explicit)The Gay Science — Friedrich Nietzsche “God is dead” = loss of grounding for meaning.Thus Spoke Zarathustra Attempt to recreate meaning (Übermensch).The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism — Max Weber Rationalization disenchantment of the world.
7. Attempts to Recover Meaning (Without Naive Return)(This is where it gets interesting)Saving the Appearances — Owen Barfield Directly argues we lost participatory meaning and can regain it consciously.The Phenomenology of Perception — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Re-embeds meaning in lived experience.A Secular Age — Charles Taylor Massive account of how we got here.After Virtue — Alasdair MacIntyre Moral meaning collapse and possible recovery.that's the list
>>25167772It's fine for starting out but you should also cross refence with what other AIs tell you. When I want to ask AI for recs, I ask the same question to grok, gemini, claude and chatgpt and then cross reference their response.
>>25167772>>25167774dont see the use of this since aifags dont read books, they read summariesmight as well just let chatgpt write a summary on transhumanism
>>25167772I'm begging you to actually read a book, just one
>>25168073>>25168225>thread is literally about judging AI recommendations for reading lists>anti-AI spergs can't help themselves and assume even this completely banal and harmless usage means that it's being used to summarize rather than readGet the fuck over yourselves already, christ
>>25168419theres actual scholarly work on the subjects so using ai for it is just lazythere are decent uses for it but this isnt one of them
>>25168437You're retarded
