Books on Philosophy
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What kind of philosophy, and what's your current level of knowledge?
If you've never read philosophy before at all, Sophie's World is a soft/easy intro to the history of philosophy. It's quite low-level but gives a grand tour of the major developments from the greeks up until the present day. Beyond that philosophy books get really specialized depending on what branch you're interested in.
If you've never read philosophy before at all, Sophie's World is a soft/easy intro to the history of philosophy. It's quite low-level but gives a grand tour of the major developments from the greeks up until the present day. Beyond that philosophy books get really specialized depending on what branch you're interested in.
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Seconding Nietzsche, and the other existentialists. If you're already up on philosophy there's a great teaching company lecture series (which is free if you know where to look) called "No Excuses: existentialism and the meaning of life". It's 30x30 minute lectures I believe, but it covers kierkegaard, sartre, nietzsche, dostoyevsky, camus and ties them altogether with what they teach us about finding meaning in our lives.
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Maybe start with the ancient Greeks then.
And when it comes to "modern" philosophy I would reccomend Hegel first. He is quite easy to digest
One of my favorites is a Danish philosopher-Søren Kierkegaard.
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