Self education as a hobby - how to properly do it?

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Gestricius 说:
Crash Course has short videos with history, psychology, politics and the likes.

https://m.youtube.com/user/crashcourse
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Ugh, John Green. The guy makes me cringe so hard. He puts on the whole "so le hip n random! xD" persona to appeal to students or whatever, but for anyone looking to seriously learn it's annoying. In the history department he does the whole "is it super liberal..? no? omg eurocentrik" thing which is irritating as well, even for someone liberal like me.


EDIT: Seems like in his more recent world history videos he got rid of that awful letter box or whatever and has been making less awful jokes, which is nice.
 
Alright, this endeavour of mine is kicking off rather well. I've spent some time in the library and got a few psychology and philosophy 101 books that were listed online as must reads. They were hit and miss but I'd like to cover the basics I think I might have skipped before moving on to more complex books. Trying to get a few high school books to build upon those basics then continue from there.

I'm trying out History of philosophy without any gaps but find that my attention often goes awry and I have to pause and replay parts. Text I can deal with at my own pace so that's not a problem. (Thankfully most podcasts have a text source)

What I'd like to find online is an incredibly detailed and exhausting timeline of history to study, from pre-history to modern history, and make reading it daily a habit. Looking up things that interest me at a particular moment is probably more fun and less of a chore to do, but it leaves far too many gaps in what I know and that's exactly something I'd like to work upon. All in all I haven't had much luck with that, I'd appreciate it if anyone could point me to something.
 
Hm, for History of Philosophy I try to keep active while listening to it otherwise I get fidgety. Going on the treadmill or walking the dog, for example. Also, I'm sure there are some episodes you can skip. Thales is a good laugh and all but you don't need to spend 20 minutes learning about the guy who thought magnets have souls. The only presocratic I'd say you should know about are Heraclitus, with Hippocrates and Pythagoras good for knowing the background of where the Greeks were getting their thought from.

I recently acquired a series of discarded books from my school library about the history of civilization. It's 11 volumes by Will Durant called "The Story of Civilization", and it looks like it'll be keeping me busy for a while.

My school's library "Went digital", so they were sending a bunch of books to be burned or whatever it is they do with them. I picked up what would ordinarily be very expensive for 20 minutes of my time sorting through a bunch of books, so I suggest you do that as well if you can.
 
Heeey I was just coming to post here! What a coinkydink!
Phonemelter 说:
Coursera might work as well.
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There's an app for that. Gots it on muh kindle. I just downloaded it last night, I haven't had time to look at it (much) yet though.
 
Suspicious Pilgrim 说:
Hm, for History of Philosophy I try to keep active while listening to it otherwise I get fidgety. Going on the treadmill or walking the dog, for example. Also, I'm sure there are some episodes you can skip. Thales is a good laugh and all but you don't need to spend 20 minutes learning about the guy who thought magnets have souls. The only presocratic I'd say you should know about are Heraclitus, with Hippocrates and Pythagoras good for knowing the background of where the Greeks were getting their thought from.

I recently acquired a series of discarded books from my school library about the history of civilization. It's 11 volumes by Will Durant called "The Story of Civilization", and it looks like it'll be keeping me busy for a while.

My school's library "Went digital", so they were sending a bunch of books to be burned or whatever it is they do with them. I picked up what would ordinarily be very expensive for 20 minutes of my time sorting through a bunch of books, so I suggest you do that as well if you can.
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I'm trying to study early Greek philosophers right now so that advice is helpful, thanks. :smile: It's kind of difficult to distinguish between what is relevant, what is interesting, and what doesn't justify the time spent reading about it, I fear this will always be a problem.

As for looting the library saving the books, our school has abandoned many books like that years ago, and I did in fact save a few, they weren't really worth saving though. :dead:
 
look up will durants series of books The Story of Civilization and then go from there. The book are also on audio.

The Story of Civilization

    Durant, Will (1935) Our Oriental Heritage. New York: Simon & Schuster.
    Durant, Will (1939) The Life of Greece. New York: Simon & Schuster.
    Durant, Will (1944) Caesar and Christ. New York: Simon & Schuster.
    Durant, Will (1950) The Age of Faith. New York: Simon & Schuster.
    Durant, Will (1953) The Renaissance. New York: Simon & Schuster.
    Durant, Will (1957) The Reformation. New York: Simon & Schuster.
    Durant, Will, & Durant, Ariel (1961) The Age of Reason Begins. New York: Simon & Schuster.
    Durant, Will, & Durant, Ariel (1963) The Age of Louis XIV. New York: Simon & Schuster.
    Durant, Will, & Durant, Ariel (1965) The Age of Voltaire. New York: Simon & Schuster.
    Durant, Will, & Durant, Ariel (1967) Rousseau and Revolution. New York: Simon & Schuster.
    Durant, Will, & Durant, Ariel (1975) The Age of Napoleon. New York: Simon & Schuster.


After you have read/listened to the series read this:

http://www.onehundredbestbooks.com/

hundred books for a general education

and this:

http://theinvisiblementor.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/100-Best-Books-for-an-Education.pdf

takes 4 years to read at 7 hours reading pr week - 10 hours per volume
 
Suspicious Pilgrim 说:
Here are some fun Greek philosophers:
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Speaking of which, I managed to download Crito for free! Wahoo, public domain  :party: Anyone ever read it?
Also, thanks for the links  :grin:
 
Something that I found works for me is not to take courses that take ages, because you are likely to drop out of your own program when you hit on boring stuff. A more realistic approach is to simply jump from subject to subject as your interest shifts.
Also, you may want to avoid psychology as a science, it's just a lot of formal systems and stats. If your real interest is actually in helping and understanding yourself and others, a good self-help book is better, and some kind of group therapy is best.
Philosophy is pretty much useless exercise if you want useful answers. Just use the Difficult Questions thread for metaphysical questions.
These are just personal opinions and experiences from a knowledge-thirsty, but practical fellow with similar interests.
 
I can't agree about philosophy, something does not have to provide concrete answers to be useful or extensively applicable in real life, which I find philosophy to be, that being the reason it holds so much appeal to me. Subjective matters open to interpretation being even more intriguing to me than analytical philosophy, though I have a feeling that view will shift the more I study it.

You do have a point about psychology though, thankfully the useless technicalities and statistics are easier to detect and avoid than in other subjects I'm interested in.
 
Philosophy can be pretty holistic a lot of the time, which I think might be the reason a lot of people off it as non-practical or whatever.
 
Old German self-important fags making themselves a monument of words and logic, proclaiming it's the only way to explain everything. Logic gym at best, mental masturbation at worst.
And the self-referentiality is truly evil, meaning insiders only or gtfo.
 
I agree with Vader. Many western philosophers were just ****ting words out for the sake of ****ting words out. You have to dig in to their works way too deep to grab a real pearl of wisdom or two to be worth minding their brain diarrhoeas.
 
:lol:

Go listen to some man with a British accent spout off "b urself :^)" on youtube while ambient music plays in the background.
 
As far as your interest in history is concerned, I wholeheartedly recommend BBC Radio 4's In Our Time with Sir Melvyn Bragg. A new podcast is released every week, but if you're able to make it you can just tune in at 9 PM GMT. The show has dealt with a plethora of subjects; very few of them pertaining to military history, which I'm grateful for. They always treat one particular subject and invite three renowned scholars who know a thing or two about it. A few random topics they've had broadcasts on: Hadrian's Wall, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, The Ice Age, Custer's Last Stand, The Dissolution of the Monasteries, Dante's Inferno, The Druids, Arab Conquests, The Black Death, ...

Programme's website
Episode archive
 
I like this thread. Posting mostly because i want this thread added to the tracker, but i also have a question.
What the hell is philosophy? How do i get introduced to it?
Is philosophy useless in materialistic grounds (unless you are a philosophy teacher/writer)?
 
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