Barrett Alosa: If you want it in chronological order by philosopher, you will spend a long time reading. The Great Books of the Western World is 60 volumes put out by Britannica costing $2000, so it's only available in libraries, and even it is not complete. But there are anthologies out there such as by Will Durant. Just Google them or use the library computer to find the hard copy.But the easiest way is by topic. Otherwise you forget in the 2nd book what was said in the 1st book and most of it won't make sense anyway until you have a lot of concepts under your belt. Those concepts are the "topics" in the Syntopicon. The Syntopicon is Volumes II and III of that 60 volumes. You can read what interests you by topic and still get it in chronological order as it happened in history.Angel; Animal; Aristocracy; Art; Astronomy; Beauty; Being; Cause; Chance; Change; Citizen; Constitution; Courage; Custom and Convention; Definition; Democracy; Desire; Dialectic; Duty; Education; ! Element; Emotion; Eternity; Evolution; Experience; Family; Fate; Form; God; Good and Evil; Government; Habit; Happiness; History; Honor; Hypothesis; Idea; Immortality; Induction; Infinity; Judgment; Justice; Knowledge; Labor; Language; Law; Liberty; Life and Death; Logic; Love; Man; Mathematics; Matter; Mechanics; Medicine; Memory and Imagination; Metaphysics; Mind; Monarchy; Nature; Necessity and Contingency; Oligarchy; One and Many; Opinion; Opposition; Philosophy; Physics; Pleasure and Pain; Poetry; Principle; Progress; Prophecy; Prudence; Punishment; Quality; Quantity; Reasoning; Relation; Religion; Revolution; Rhetoric; Same and Other; Science; Sense; Sign and Symbol; Sin; Slavery; Soul; Space; State; Temperance; Theology; Time; Truth; Tyranny; Universal and Particular; Virtue and Vice; War and Peace; Wealth; Will; Wisdom; World...Show more
Raul Tllo: My mind is the best book.
Shaun Rapkowicz: The Bible, Plato's apology, Pericles funeral oration, any of Cic! ero's books. And much more...
Rachal Osaki: Number 1: ! Harold C.. Goddard's "The Meaning of Shakespeare." It is not really just about Shakespeare, but about the whole of life, civilization, the future. Explains Shakespeare's very negative view of philosophy. You have to read this. You have to see what it means that Romeo says "Hang up philosophy!" You have to see what Rosalind says to Jaques about his supposed wisdom--it might change your life! This book is ESSENTIAL. It currently is being published as two volumes. You must read both volumes. It was originally one book and was meant to be read that way. All the chapters refer to each other and build to a conclusion. This book will make you WISE beyond virtually all your teachers and professors. This books contains a sort of lost wisdom. It was published in 1951. Even then, Dr. Goddard's views were rare in academia. Since then, they've become practically extinct. Dr. Goddard draws up Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Blake, Dostoevsky, and sees a continuity in the great! literature of the world. Number 2: Jostein Gaarder's "Sophie's World." A novel that is, in essence, a course of in the history of Western Philosophy. My interpretation of this fantasy novel (a lot like Alice in Wonderland, a bit like Harry Potter) is that it is saying that the tradition of philosophy has come to an end, and so we must no longer look to philosophy (or religion) for answers or guidance. It has sold something like 30 million copies worldwide. I think so many people fail to realize that, with the advent of the modern scientific method, the philosophical tradition, as a way to really determine true knowledge, came to an end. Number 3: Mark Booth's "The Secret History of the World." Explains the esoteric view of philosophy and history, which I think is necessary to understand and really see, even if you don't accept all or any of it in the end. It discusses famous philosophers and famous authors, and ties everything together in a fascinating and compel! ling way.Number 4: Christopher Booker's "The Seven Basic Plots." On on! e level, a book about structures and patterns in the great fiction and other literature of the world. On another level, it is a deep explanation of what Life is, how Life works.Number 5: Catherine Galasso-Vigorito's "God Will Do The Rest: Seven Keys To The Desires of Your Heart." A book that is a road map to a happy life. In part, it uses a New Thought interpretation of Christianity. Not deep or complicated philosophy. But would you rather be happy or be wise?Number 6: The teaching DVD titled "The Secret," produced by Rhonda Byrne. Similar to all the books I've mentioned so far, although with a much more focus on "magical" phenomenon. This is worth considering, and a good antidote to excessive rationalism.Number 7: Joseph Campbell's "Myths To Live By." You probably know how famous Campbell is. This takes a look at the major and some minor myths and religions, and draws lessons from them for living.Number 8: Viktor Frankl's "The Will To Meaning." Part of thi! s book I like best is its statements against Nihilism, reductionism, or what he calls "nothing-but-ism."Number 9: Tobias Churton's Gnostic Philosophy. Number 10: Michael Laitman's "Kabbalah For Beginners." One of a whole series of books on Kabbalah made available by the Bnei Baruch organization based in Israel. Kabbalah assumes that there are powerful, generally unseen spiritual realities, and there is a way to see, feel and experience these realities. The way is called Kabbalah. Number 11: Yehuda Berg's "The Power of Kabbalah." Number 12: Joseph Telushkin's "A Code of Jewish Ethics, Volume 1: You Shall Be Holy, and Volume 2: Love Your Neighbor As Yourself." It's not really a book about "ethics." It's a book about how to live, about the best way to live, whether you practice Judaism or not. This really is living, practical philosophy.Number 13: Miguel de Cervantes' "Don Quixote." The reigning philosophy of the educated classes in Western Civilization is Nihili! sm. This book enables one to think about this in a deep way.Number 14:! Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment." Totally philosophical. There's a DVD movie version starring John Hurt that is good.Number 15: Woody Allen's "Crimes and Misdeamors." This is the Nihilist counter-argument to Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment." Number 16: The famous film titled "The English Patient." It is one giant sermon in favor of Nihilism.Number 17: The 2002 film "Y Tu Mama, Tambien." Another giant sermon in favor of the Nihilistic world view.Number 18: The Bollywood film "Dhadkan." It contains a spiritual and philosophical character named Ram, who saves the day with the wisdom he imparts to the other two major characters. It is available on DVD in the USA. Number 19: Rabindranath Tagore's book "Gitanjali." It won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Number 20: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essays....Show more
Refugio Gastineau: Plato's:The RepublicSocrates' apologyGorgiasProtagorasAristotle's:Necomachean ethicsDescarte's:Discourse on the MethodIn ! reading and understanding, we do not find conventions to follow, nor ideas which are to be accepted; it is matter to reflect about, to reconsider and issues to solve. Logic isn't relevant to subjects, culture or conventions; it only refers to state and the relations between different elements. It's not important to cite or to repeat ideas; what's important is knowing and understanding and as long as it may go through the use of already listed ideas, those ideas are to be considered as well as new ones.Such claims as those above highlights the misunderstanding of the public regarding philosophy: it's not about conventions, it's about logic - period. Teaching philosophy relies on making people understand the work of thinkers, not adopting it....Show more
Dedra Furguson: Nietzsche: "The Antichrist"; "The Gay Science"; "On the Genealogy of Morals".Peter Ossorio: "What Actually Happens"Walter Kaufmann: "Critique of Philosophy and Religion"Lucretius: "On the Nature of T! hings"Wittgenstein: "Philosophical Investigations"...Show more
J! onelle Eligio: this could be an exceptionally vast question. each and each answerer might have an exceptionally distinctive checklist for terribly sturdy motives. i'm guessing that grew to become into the part of the ingredient in asking. i'm drawing close this from the point of view of a individual thinking in cutting-edge circumstances. Many super thinkers in historic previous are left off, together with Aristotle, who in spite of their brilliance and with the aid of no fault of their own mentioned little that stands as much as scrutiny of modern concept. they only did not have the income of their own shoulders to stand on. for sure there are others that I probable might have risk-free if I had study them, yet i can't somewhat do lots approximately that. those are in no specific order and comprise a quantity fields and a few that maximum folk will low fee, yet i like. Kierkegaard: Diary of a Seducer (part of the two Or) Nietzsche: previous sturdy and Evil Camus: delusion ! of Sisyphus Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment van Inwagin: Vagueness Omnes: Quantum Philosophy Greene: The Elegent Universe multiple: The innovations's I Then probable textbooks on Epistemology, good judgment. something via Quine ought to probable be on there, yet i don't have a identify. I extraordinarily advise Quantum Philosophy via French Physicist Roland Omnes. that is totally available and it will replace the kind you think of approximately all kinds of philosophical factors. there are a number of philosophers that evaluate physics and maximum of them get the physics ineffective incorrect and it destroys their philosophical theories....Show more
Donte Hamme: I dont have much in the way of books on philosophy.I am of the mentality that reading/studying other peoples work corrupts my own. Academia likes to condition its thinkers. I prefer original ideas over having established sources to cite. Unfortunately, most people criticize original ideas for a lack of cit! ation of established thinkers.As Peaceful Lady said, the mind is the be! st book when it comes to philosophy....Show more
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