can nebody help me?????????

Question

can nebody suggest me good boooks on philosphy for 1st yr..plzzzzzzz? no stupid answer.

Answer 1

for 1st year you should try books that explain philosophy itself
knowing history of philosophty and how it effected the world would make easier step then to jump right in

Answer 2

You should check out Stephen Law's collection of books especially the Philosophy Gym. He crams comprehensive information into simple dialogue followed by reasonable inquiry.

Next you should try Alain De Botton. The Consolations of Philosophy is probably the most relevant to a 1st year student.

Finally, a must read is Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder.

Also, films can help you get your head around complex, philosophical concepts. A few I would recommend are: Waking Life, I Heart Huckabee and What the Bleep.

Good Luck.

Answer 3

If you want to do casual summer reading the following books are fun reading for persons alreadly interested in philosophy:

Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy
Bryan McGee, The Story of Philosophy (hardcover best) (The same title as Durant's)
Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy

If you want to find clear explanations for an introductory philosophy course, I would recommend.

Peter K. McInerney, Introduction to Philosophy, HarperCollins College Outline.

It's fully indexed and covers well most fields of philosophy. An added bonus is that it is inexpensive.

Also the notes and tutorial at philosophy.lander.edu might be of help for specific topics--just use the online search engine for the topic of interest.
http://philosophy.lander.edu/intro/index.html

Another quick good source is the Philosophy Pages at
http://www.philosophy.pages.com

Answer 4

Start with the best- then you can argue all the rest:

9. Beyond Good and Evil
Author: Freidrich Nietzsche
Publication date: 1886
Score: 28
Summary: An oft-scribbled bit of college-campus graffiti says: “‘God is dead’--Nietzsche” followed by “‘Nietzsche is dead’--God.” Nietzsche’s profession that “God is dead” appeared in his 1882 book, The Gay Science, but under-girded the basic theme of Beyond Good and Evil, which was published four years later. Here Nietzsche argued that men are driven by an amoral “Will to Power,” and that superior men will sweep aside religiously inspired moral rules, which he deemed as artificial as any other moral rules, to craft whatever rules would help them dominate the world around them. “Life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, overpowering of the strange and weaker, suppression, severity, imposition of one’s own forms, incorporation and, at the least and mildest, exploitation,” he wrote.
8. The Course of Positive Philosophy
Author: Auguste Comte
Publication date: 1830-1842
Score: 28
Summary: Comte, the product of a royalist Catholic family that survived the French Revolution, turned his back on his political and cultural heritage, announcing as a teenager, “I have naturally ceased to believe in God.” Later, in the six volumes of The Course of Positive Philosophy, he coined the term “sociology.” He did so while theorizing that the human mind had developed beyond “theology” (a belief that there is a God who governs the universe), through “metaphysics” (in this case defined as the French revolutionaries’ reliance on abstract assertions of “rights” without a God), to “positivism,” in which man alone, through scientific observation, could determine the way things ought to be.

Answer 5

try Bertrand Russell's History Of Western Philosophy - its a good general introduction to the subject

also try Robert M Persig's Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance - its nothing to do with zen or motorcycles - its about philosophy

Answer 6

Many childrens books are best for such things! The more simplistic the better!!!! Adults tend to make such topics far more complicated than they really are or need to be. The absolute basics in understanding is all you need.

Answer 7

Nebody ... cannot make any suggestion, because he does not exist

Answer 8

Mortimer Adler is another author to look for--he wrote several good introductory books that are easy to read and understand.

Answer 9

Read Gita, Bible, Koran and Granthasaheb

Answer 10

but you tempt me to give stupid answrks MR ZÄ°BARDO