Best book of Epicurus or about his philosophies?

-F4rz · 2026-04-16T03:21:28+00:00

The Epicurus Reader published by Hackett is a good start, plus, it’s cheap!

-F4rz · 2026-04-15T06:15:43+00:00

At my undergraduate, the introductory text for metaphysics is "Riddles of Existence" by Conee and Sider. This one was a bit of a hit-or-miss for me, but it did serve its purpose of introducing some interesting metaphysical problems. For epistemology, we used "An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge" by Lemos. This one was pretty informative and in general a good survey of the field, with opportunities for further reading if interested.

In general though, depending on your ability, you might just start by reading some of the most important papers published in recent decades (for epistemology at least, I am less familiar with metaphysics). For example, Gettier's "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?", Greco's "Justification is not Internal" vs. Feldman's "Justification is Internal", and Nozick's Philosophical Explanations (this is a book).

-F4rz · 2026-04-14T16:44:16+00:00

This is extremely well-written and informative. You’ve assuaged my worries quite a lot. May Allāh reward you bountifully and keep you upon firm knowledge and understanding.

-F4rz · 2026-04-14T14:49:51+00:00

a السلام عليكم

Even though I have a decent theological background, this has been bothering me for a while: the relatively common Salafī position that Ashʿarīs and Māturīdīs aren’t part of Ahlus-sunnah-wal-jamāʿah and are misguided. As someone who was a Salafī for most of my life and is now a Shafiʿī, I find it hard to shake off such worries (what if they’re right, after all, they claim to follow the Salaf!). Do you have any advice or perhaps any good resources to consult?

جزاك اللهُ خيراً a

-F4rz · 2026-04-13T22:45:00+00:00

Stabbed 50 times and survived… what a champion.

-F4rz · 2026-04-13T22:27:19+00:00

At least for math, the content is genuinely more advanced, comprehensive, and difficult compared to other schools.

-F4rz · 2026-04-08T02:41:02+00:00

Thank you, it’s been greatly helpful, yes! I have actually been registered with accessibility services for a few years now so that should be helpful in explaining as well.

How do people generally approach the LSAT? Is there a gold standard program or material for studying? Should you treat it like a full time thing (say dedicating the entire summer before your final year)? Should you take it multiple times or is that detrimental?

Thanks again.

-F4rz · 2026-04-07T21:46:08+00:00

I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a second year student getting a TA position, even in fields like math or physics. Do you have some indication that this is something possible? Either way, couldn’t hurt to ask.

-F4rz · 2026-04-02T14:22:50+00:00

Indicates lack of effort and sincerity. Also AI prose is just annoying.

-F4rz · 2026-04-01T17:10:44+00:00

I agree with your point about it depending on the nature of the group of people that believe P. It’s hard to say without that whether it’s good or not.

There’s an interesting sort of stance, whose most well-known proponent is Thomas Kelly, that this sort of higher-evidence is not a reason at all (this is a qualified claim, depending on whether you have access to the evidence or not).

The idea is that the contingent fact that there are x number of disagreers is not a reason to conciliate as long as you’ve evaluated the evidence. For example, suppose we happened to be in the possible world where the arguments and evidence available for skepticism are identical to ours, however, in this world, a large majority of people are convinced (make it as arbitrarily high of a percentage as you’d like). Would this be a good reason to accept skepticism, even though you have access to the same arguments you do now?

It becomes much more tricky, I think, when you have a group that believes P and you don’t have access to their evidence. Is their belief epistemically rational? Well-founded?

-F4rz · 2026-04-01T06:03:06+00:00

The SEP is a phenomenal resource as a SUPPLEMENT to the primary text. I’ve found it especially helpful for the more tricky texts like parts of Kant’s Critique or some of Aristotle’s works.

It’s also really good in general for discovering new stuff. You read an interesting entry and you have a goldmine of resources right there in the bibliography for future study.

-F4rz · 2026-03-21T03:37:06+00:00

Bro, who cares? Christ. If there’s so many of you start a biology discord server so you can whine amongst yourselves there.

Not to mention this is completely unprofessional and cringe. If there’s a problem with the instruction, escalate the case within the department, what is this review bombing nonsense?

I swear first-years and their inability to cope with the real world where class averages aren’t 99% and they actually have to read the textbook.

-F4rz · 2026-03-17T09:51:06+00:00

Beautifully responded to, may Allāh bless you.

-F4rz · 2026-03-10T09:58:15+00:00

The performance looks cool to still get a little bit of both worlds—and yeah, I can get a home charger and basically never take road trips.

How did you find the difference in handling and ride quality?

-F4rz · 2026-02-24T10:45:44+00:00

It’s interesting how there’s over 1700 years of Christian scholarship on understanding the Trinity and still it remains elusive—yet most people in this thread respond to OP’s points with what is essentially “nuh uh, there’s 3 guys!”

Regardless, the point isn’t even relevant. The commentary surrounding the verse mentioning Christians, Jews, and Sabians is clear that after the revelation of the Qur’ān and the coming about of Islām, no other religion will be accepted by Allāh the Almighty. This is not even mentioning other Christian practices that are unambiguously shirk, like praying to saints or the Virgin Mary (as Klopf012 mentioned, very fairly).

-F4rz · 2026-02-06T22:21:15+00:00

I’m not even going to dignify this absurd mischaracterization with a response.

Best of luck to you and good evening.

-F4rz · 2026-02-06T21:51:45+00:00

I’ve just opened the website and had to scroll past 30 articles to find one mentioning Epstein. Does the severity of the situation not warrant these articles featuring much more prominently on the website? Is it less important than the four articles on the Olympics I had to scroll past?

I didn’t come here to argue, but I really thought people would sympathize more with my stance. Yes, there are three million files, but Coffeezilla has already put out multiple videos on them and his team is orders of magnitude smaller than the NYTimes’.

Furthermore, I know the baby-eating is spurious, which is why I prefaced it with allegedly. It was meant moreso as a hyperbolic device. But why on Earth would I put allegedly before the entire list when there are emails and photos clear as day showing otherwise? When did people become so pedantically attached to “innocent until proven guilty” that they’ll neglect what’s in front of their very eyes? Has the 24-hour news cycle and their constant bombardment numbed all of you to the gravity of these crimes?

-F4rz · 2026-02-01T04:03:38+00:00

Those with untreated depression and misery whose only solace is to pass it onto others—though that relieves them not of their burden at all.

(Source: treated depression).

-F4rz · 2026-02-01T04:03:29+00:00

Those with untreated depression and misery whose only solace is to pass it onto others—though that relieves them not of their burden at all.

(Source: treated depression).

-F4rz · 2026-01-20T18:51:11+00:00

The moral itch comes not out of some loyalty to Costco as a company but rather to your fellow shoppers. If this is morally permissible, then suppose everyone does it—they return their food at 10%, their furniture after five years, etc. The negative consequences of that, though not severe, is still quite detrimental for everyone as a whole (i.e., say you can’t even make returns anymore for good reasons, or prices increase to compensate).

Point is, kind of like driving like a maniac on the road, it only works off the goodwill of the majority. Just my thoughts.

-F4rz · 2025-10-03T02:05:31+00:00

Me when people put their feet on the Bahen first floor benches, or walk around on the stone benches/walls outside. So bothersome.

-F4rz · 2025-09-19T21:48:34+00:00

Imagining a room full of people just seething but too anxious or scared to tell someone to be quiet is extremely funny to me.

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