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Originally Posted by RayBonga
Doesn't sound like a very good reason to read, "To be considered educated and literate" have you read them all yourself?
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You are correct of course, but there's a reason that these authors are considered classics. When you spend time reading them, the splendor of their thoughts becomes obvious. Seneca once said that scholarly pursuits are an essential part of living a good life because they allow you to spend time with some of the greatest minds of all time, even make them your friends, and I tend to agree with him.
Then again, how some of those names made the list, I'll never understand. Marcus Aurelius reads like Stoicism for Dummies, Freud is a speculative hack, as is Marx (Popper was undoubtedly right on the pseudoscientific nature of their theories), Hegel is boring and much of what he writes is elaborate nonsense, and, well, the list goes on.