<p>But sorry you didn’t get into Stanford SFWarrior, I know you were really counting on it. Believe me, I didn’t think I had a chance to even get on the waitlist though I’m glad I did. </p>
<p>They only accepted 20 and put 20 on the waitlist so now I’m just hoping 20 people don’t go to make room for me 
lol</p>
<p>@ thelongshot: Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think I remember you saying that you’ve been reading philosophy for years, and are already taking (and scoring very well in) Practice LSAT’s. I was wondering where you get the practice LSAT’s, and if you could recommend any philosophy books? I’m considering a double major at UCB in psych and philosophy.</p>
<p>However, knowing that Berkeley’s philosophy department is pretty rigorous, I was wondering if you knew of any good philosophy books that have prepared you well for the LSAT, and have improved your understanding of philosophy. Also, if you could suggest any phil books that may have been impactful and inspirational to you in general, that would be awesome!</p>
<p>Sorry, I’ve been meaning to ask you this for a while, but I never got around to it :p. Thank you for any advice or books you could recommend!</p>
<p>Best of luck to you in your Stanford conquest!</p>
<p>@ emil</p>
<p>Well, when I started reading Philosophy I was really interested in existentialism, my first book in fact was Twilight of the Idols and then Beyond Good and Evil from Nietzsche. I don’t know if it’s because they were profound or because I was a teenager looking for some angsty intellectual reads. But I moved from Nietzsche to Sartre (No Exit being my favorite work of his) and Kierkegaard (Fear and Trembling is his seminal work, I’m not even religious and it’s just incredible), the whole Western European Existentialist movement really. </p>
<p>Then I moved to Postmodernism/Poststructuralism: a few of my favorite works from this movement, and those which greatly enhanced my ability to comprehend, analyze and dissect dense literature and argumentation (which comprises 75% of the LSAT) are - History of Sexuality, Discipline and Punish, Power/Knowledge and Madness and Civilization, all by Michel Foucault. Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Volume 1: Anti-Oedipus, Volume 2: A Thousand Plateaus) by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. Cap & Schizo, both volumes, took me 2 months to read and almost changed the way I perceived everything. The Parallax View by Slavok Zizek. On Security by Michael Dillon. And Difference and Repetition by Gilles Deleuze. The Transgender by Judith Butler. There are more but PM me about them. </p>
<p>Finally, my last and current phase (of the last 3-4 years) has been ethics, value theory and political philosophy (social contract, positive and negative law, etc). It is in this field that I have attained the most applicable, logistically complex, cogent literature that has not only trained my mind but given me tools as someone who wants to inflict good. From here I have quite a few favorite, whatever I don’t list you can PM me and ask. The Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals bu Immanuel Kant (by the way, if you want to read text that makes every passage and argument on the LSAT look like Sesame Street intros read all of Kant’s work, Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Practical Reason and On Eternal Peace along with The Groundwork). The Theory of Justice by John Rawls. Sovereignty and Subjectivity by Judith Jarvis Thompson. On Democracy by Joshua Cohen. The Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes. Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill. Two Treatises of Government by John Locke. Anarchy, State, Utopia by Robert Nozick. The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. </p>
<p>I’ve moved onto the classics now: Parmenides, Zeno, Aristotle, Anaximander, Plato, al-Massef, Socrates (as Plato’s writing), Lao-Tzu. I’m not a fan of the classics but I know they have to be read I suppose. </p>
<p>If you have any more question feel free to ask :)</p>
<p>@long hahah you humble me so much my friend. If any of us deserved that waitlist spot, it would be you.</p>
<p>Watch this video: [YouTube</a> - ucberkeleycampuslife’s Channel](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/ucberkeleycampuslife#p/a/AFFFAC624EE1869D/0/mfebpLfAt8g]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/ucberkeleycampuslife#p/a/AFFFAC624EE1869D/0/mfebpLfAt8g)</p>
<p>Do you really want to go to a school that was shamed to this extent?</p>
<p>God I love that play!!! Hell yeah. haha. Go Bears!!!</p>
<p>Btw the late-night transfer thread is now locked :(. This is the saddest day of my College Conf. career. SF, you and I started that one! haha. Good times and convos in there.</p>
<p>LOL! That was so funny!</p>
<p>“THE BEARS HAVE WON!”</p>
<p>The Bear tackled the Stanford band member V_V</p>
<p>@ thelongshot: Everything you said is amazing. It’s like a trove of gold to me haha. I’m so overwhelmed by it, that I don’t even know where to begin. Thank you so much. I will be PM-ing you, and will comment at greater length when I get out of school. I can’t wait to read everything that you mentioned! ttys.</p>
<p>yeah i noticed the late night discussion thread is closed 
boo. start another one?</p>