I'm getting into philosophy and would love to begin disussing it on the Internet, but I have a pet-peeve with knowing what the hell I'm talking about before I speak. Plus I'm very intrigued by the subject(s). So what are must-reads? I know Plato's Republic and some of Freidrich Nietzsche's work but that's it.
2006-12-16 15:11:28 · 6 answers · asked by Smokey 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle
The City of God - St. Augustine
Confessions - St. Augustine
The Art of War - Sun Tzu
The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
Ethics - Baruch Spinoza
Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes
Dictionnaire philosophique - François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)
Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith
The Social Contract - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Critique of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant
Phenomenology of Spirit - Georg Wilhelm Fredrich Hegel
The Philosophy of Right - Georg Wilhelm Fredrich Hegel
A Vindication of the Rights of Women - Mary Wollstonecraft
The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx
Das Kapital - Karl Marx
I Ching - Confucius
The Stranger - Albert Camus
The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir
2006-12-16 15:25:34 · answer #1 · answered by Asphycsia 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. The Fourth Way...Peter Ouspensky 2. A New Model Of The Universe...Peter Ouspensky 3. The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution...Peter Ouspensky 4. In Search Of The Miraculous...Peter Ouspensky 5. The Theory Of Celestial Influence...Rodney Collin (Ouspensky's ONLY conscious student) 6. The Decline Of The West...Oswald Spengler 7. Castaneda's Journey...Richard DeMille (a book revealing that Carlos Castaneda was a complete fraud. I.E. Don Juan was entirely made up and all of Castaneda's "field work" really took place in the UCLA library, NOT the Sonoran desert) 8. There IS a God: How The Worlds Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind...by Anthony Flew 9. Flatland...by Edwin Abbott 10. The Republic...Plato
2016-05-23 01:14:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy.
Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy
Dagobert Runes, Dictionary of Philosophy
Robert M Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainance
There is a series of books called the History of Philosophy that is quite good.
The Barnes & Noble History of Philosophy gives a pretty good background.
Must-reads would include Kant, Hegel, Sartre, Marx
There are dozens of sites on the Internet
Don't forget the Wikipedia.
2006-12-16 15:24:09 · answer #3 · answered by Richard E 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you're just getting into reading philosophy, try some Kahlil Gibran. He's deep, but upbeat and understandable. Don't start out with Nietzsche, he will bore you to death and Plato is, while worthwhile, very dated in the language. For the beginner, I would suggest some more contemporary, light novelists like Douglas Adams, or Hunter S. Thompson. They write light, oftentimes humorous fiction with undertones of heavy philosophy.
2006-12-16 15:22:56 · answer #4 · answered by b_friskey 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dont worry about knowing what youre talking about when speaking of philosophy. philosophers just make up stuff as they go, and so can you.
2006-12-16 15:23:44 · answer #5 · answered by Stand-up Philosopher 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Odyssey is pretty philisophical.
2006-12-16 15:17:17 · answer #6 · answered by nina_bear10 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋