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OK, I have stocked up my summer reading supply:
Nietzsche:
The Birth of Tragedy
Twilight of The Idols
Human, All Too Human
The Will To Power
Ecce Homo
Kafka: The Complete Stories (I was ripped off! Amerika is not in it! Complete, my decayed ass...)
Aristotle: The Art of Rhetoric
Seneca: Essays and Letters
Kant: A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton
Stumpf: Socrates to Sartre - A History of Philosophy
I began by reading the last one listed now, and it flows very well, with some but infrequent trips to the dictionary. I should have read this one first before diving into Nietzche's Beyond Good and Evil and The Genealogy of Morals. In fact this last one is so enlightening about philosophy in general that I think I will buy something by Cicero and read that and the Seneca book first before continuing Nietzsche maybe even preclude him with Schopenhauer and of course Hegel . But I do want to read the Germans before the French (Montaigne, Descartes) as I have heard it then becomes dry reading the other way around (the French then the German philosophers) although I do not know why, I find them both equally fascinating.
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