Hi, just wondering if anyone can help me with some recommendations on philosophy books. I'm trying to get some for a friend who love reading Aristotle, Socrates, Kant, Voltaire, Plato and Doetevsky. Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Hi, just wondering if anyone can help me with some recommendations on philosophy books. I'm trying to get some for a friend who love reading Aristotle, Socrates, Kant, Voltaire, Plato and Doetevsky. Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Well it would help quite a bit if we knew what he's read already.
As always I will recommend Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche.
Some of my choice favourites (might have already read them...)
Plato's Republic
Trial and Death of Socrates - Plato
Candide - Voltaire
Notes from Underground - Dostoevsky
I wrote a poem on a leaf and it blew away...
Get him Karamazov instead, be a man.
Originally Posted by Mr. Dr. Ralph
haha...I've read Karamazov and I definatly don't recommend it as a first Dostoevsky novel, great as it is.
I wrote a poem on a leaf and it blew away...
I'm starting it in next days. It will be fun...
I'm sure Karamzov is easier to understand and read then Zaratustra.
At thunder and tempest, At the world's coldheartedness,
During times of heavy loss And when you're sad
The greatest art on earth Is to seem uncomplicatedly gay.
To get things clear, they have to firstly be very unclear. But if you get them too quickly, you probably got them wrong.
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The Republic
"Why describe the hole, I mean it is a hole; So why describe it?" - Anonymous
I can wholeheartedly recommend Doing Philosophy: An Introduction Through Thought Experiments. I enjoyed it tremendously, and it's a very good introduction, indeed!
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"Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences."
Steve Allen
Nietzsches "Human,All-Too-Human"
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
I am going to go old school and say Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics!!! My favorite..
G.K Chesterton is also a good bet..
Martin Heidegger is, IMO, the most significant thinker of the 20th century, bar none (even Nietzsche). I have read half of The Basic Writings, and I think, judging by what your friend has already read, he will immensely enjoy and benefit from reading this book. It is essential reading.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/i...1619327&sr=8-1
Sofies Verden by Jostein Gaarder. This book contain the whole western philosophy.but the funniest thing is that u will never feel that u r reading a philosophical book rather a suspense with Sofi.
"The Art Of Loving" by Erich Fromm and "The Allegory of the cave" from the Republic by Plato, those are both one of the best things I have ever read!
“Listen to many, speak to a few.”
"Amazing how grimly we hold on to our misery, the energy we burn fueling our anger. Amazing how one moment, we can be snarling like a beast, then a few moments later, forgetting what or why. Not hours of this, or days, or months, or years of this... But decades. Lifetimes completely used up, given over to the pettiest rancor and hatred. Finally, there is nothing here for death to take away."- CB
yea the cave allegory is good. I haven't read anything from Fromm. I just know about his work in psychology.
Bravo on both choices. Anything w/ a Socratic dialogue is excellent for showing how philosophic discussion is based on good questions and defining the terms under consideration (Theatetus is my most recent read and I thought it a fascinating discussion on epistemology). Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy is also "old school" but well worth the read.
"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." - C.S. Lewis
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