Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Intellectual Bucket List

Understand the main ideas of some the most important philosophers and theologians in history, including but not limited to:
-Socrates
-Plato
-Aristotle
-St. Augustine
-St. Thomas Aquinas
-Descartes
-Locke
-Hume
-Kant
-Hegel
-Kierkegaard
-Nietzsche
-Russel

Read the works of these writers:
-Shakespeare
-Tolstoy
-Dostoyevsky
-C. S. Lewis

Get to know these historical figures:
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
-MLK Jr.
-Gandhi
-Mother Teresa
-Oscar Romero
-Grand Duchess Elizabeth

Become familiar with religious texts such as:
-Quran
-Dao De Jing
-Bhagavad Gita

3 comments:

  1. Why didn't I make your list, HUH INGOLD?? :'(

    jk, I would probably look very bad next to those people.. heh heh..

    If you have Locke on there, you should also add Hobbes, hehe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes#Leviathan

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  2. The Brothers K. from Dostoevsky is purely brilliance! Start with that one, don't be abashed by its length! You should add Blaise Pascal to your philosophers.

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