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1. Ancient literature:

- Theogony and Works and Days (Hesiod)

- Illiad and the Odessey (Homer)

- The three great playwrights; Sophocles Euripedes, Aeschyslus, choose a book of most well know plays for each

- Aristophanes' Clouds and other works

- Virgil's Aeneid

- Ovid's Metamorphoses

2. Ancient Philosophy

- Plato's Republic and shorter works

- Aristotles Poetics, Virtue Ethics, and Metaphysics. I will say that this is maybe the only practical reading list as I wuld reccomend to actually let Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics guide your life, look up the Benjamin Franklin approach

- Stoic writings like Marcus Aurelius' Meditations and maybe Seneca letters to a Stoic (be aware that Stoicism is heavily derivative upon Aristotle's Virtue Ethics)

- Some of Cicero's oratory and political/ethical treatises like Against the Catalinians. Try to find a good collection of his most influential writings

3. The Bible

4. Medieval Literature/Philosophy

- Augustine's City of God

- Boeccius' consolations

- Chaucher's Canterbury tales

- Boccacio's Decameron

- The lay of Sir Roland

- Le Morthe D'Artur (Mallory)

- Beowulf

- Dante's Divine Comedy (all parts)

- Prose Edda and Poetic Edda for Norse mythology (Greek Mythology being already extensively covered)

- Nibelungenlied (High German version, Hatto translation)

- Sir Gawain and the Green knight

- Confessions (Augustine)

5. Shakespeare, all of it everything he wrote

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Epic of Gilgamesh

Marlowe Poetry

Donne Poetry

Paradise Lost

Don Quixote

Pindarus

Sappho

De Rerum Natura

Cicero On Duty

Plotinus!!! How could I forget Plotinus? Likely the third greatest philosopher of antiquity if we're excluding Augustine

You can add Ancient historians like Suetonius, Plutarch, Herodotus, Livy, Thucycides

LASTLY I SHOULD MENTION THAT I INTENDED THIS LIST AS A 'BASE' TO START READING EARLY MODERN AND LATE MODERN LITERATURE, IF I INCLUDED THE MODERN CANNON THE LIST WOULD BALLOON OUT OF PROPORTION!!! AS SOMEONE WHO LOVES MODERN LITERATURE BUT DOESN'T GET ALL THE REFERENCES I MOSTLY MADE THIS FOR MYSELF.

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And how many total keyed hexes should there be? This is my first time doing a hexmap so I'm very excited but also unsure about how to do this. I already have the random encounters prepared, not just combat but also puzzles (environmental) and social interaction. Any advice?

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Have any been made? I enjoy lit but sometimes it's just nicer to play a videogame.

In particular I'm asking how compatibilists deal with this objection.

So at a basic level I understand compatibilism. Even if things were predetermined, it is still you who is making the decisions. There are internal deliberations in your brain which you turn over, consider, and eventually decide on. There were no 'little aliens' in your brain forcing you to make a particular decision.

But then there is the fact that the very 'you' that exists is not something you ever had control of. If in childhood you had a trauma which causes you to act in a certain way then you had no control over that. In that sense your decisions are free but the decision maker isn't and therefore your decisions are not free. Is this a common argument against compatibilism, and how do compatibilists deal with it?

Note that I had some pretty rigorous sociology in high school, so I know some of the terms like identity, social cohesion, social inequality, institution, power, rationalisation, culture, etc etc very formally with long definitions, and I also know some things like five stages of group formation, levels of identification, problems with modern political cohesion, etc, and some of the big names and parts of their theories (Durkheim, Weber, Marx). That being said I would like a hard, interesting textbook that is purely theoretical, and also 'introductory' to what sociology really is, as my high school education doesn't count for too much compared to actual college learning. I can do a large amount of math quite well, if that's relevant in any way. Thanks to any and all who would consider responding, have a nice day! (;

Just the question. I'm young and I want to take care of my body's health so that I don't get future issues. I already experience lower back pain sometimes, even though I go for pretty long walks most days per week. Thank you so much (:

I'm currently reading an SEP article in which these terms are brought up and I'm struggling to undrstand them.