I have always been interested in philosophy but did not pursue it as a scholar. What is a good approach or technique to orientate myself on the subject of Modern Philosophy from an introductory level?Please recommend websites, books, scripts etc.
Thanks
2007-02-15 00:32:12 · 5 answers · asked by The One 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Freud, Nietzsche and Marx, the dead Germans. They shaped much of the modern secular thought we have today.
Dead Germans is also a nick name for the founding philosophers of modern branches of thought, such as sociology. They aren't all German, but most are dead.
Another, more recent, writer is Umberto Eco. He's probably the most intelligent professional philosopher alive today. And there are a lot of philosophers in more narrow fields, like science, politics, feminism, or film (Andre Bazin). But I don't like them much.
I also like Michel de Montaigne, or Rudolf Giuliani's Leadership. Giuliani mentions a few others.
It might be best to figure out where you stand on issues, and read autobiographies of people you like. They often cite philosophers that were influential to themselves.
2007-02-15 00:47:18 · answer #1 · answered by dude 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would really not be healthy to start off with modern philosophy! You should first get familiar with its roots, because the whole science (?) is based on continuity and the discoveries of the previous philosophers. You should start (and I'm really not kidding) with Plato (his dialogs, The state, etc.), Aristotle, actually the whole ancient Greek philosophy! Then, you can even skip the middle ages (although it would not be bad to look at St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Benedict, Erasmus of Rotterdam), and then you MUST go trough Kant, Leibniz, Spinoza, the whole deal. Believe me, if you don't go step by step, it will only be harder for you to understand the modern philosophy, and easier to misunderstand it! This is the hard way, but better try like that, 'cause it could turn out you're wasting time otherwise.
2007-02-15 00:55:23 · answer #2 · answered by Uros I 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Oh crap. I started listing old philosophers...
If you were speaking specifically about "modern" philosophers from the huge list on wikipedia, I've only read...
William James and Nietzsche.
I think Kant, Kierkegaard, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Dostoevsky are popular. Man, looks like there's a whole other world coming out of the 1800s. But I'd start there. I don't think there's a real order of operations for this.
2007-02-15 03:08:24 · answer #3 · answered by DeanPonders 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Descartes grow to be the first truth seeker to make certain doubt as a device and functional for technology. in the previous him, maximum philosophers were idealists; like Plato and Aristotle. The Church grow to be in finished administration and close down the Greek colleges. lots of the historic greek writings were lost and we went through what's termed the "darkish a at the same time as." Descartes takes what the church seen a sin; doubt and made it a device for learn. it is the reason he suggested as the daddy of present day Philosophy. It grow to be the first step in route of an empirical technology.
2016-12-04 05:09:18 · answer #4 · answered by lesniewski 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
modern philosophy is based on entertainment and The arts.that is why art imitates life after all we do put them on a pedestal and we feel often feel inferior because of it. we are living in the 21st century now philosophies of past has been learned well and through out the ages times change. philosophies change and we need to learn a new way of life of philosophy. and we are becoming a lot more smarter as a race we need new philosophies for our next generation of this Millennium
2007-02-15 01:01:32 · answer #5 · answered by Elvis 109 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋