[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 196 KB, 1360x768, 2268106-1360x768-[DesktopNexus.com].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
10318077 No.10318077 [Reply] [Original]

How to start Philosophy?

Book recs for philosophy introduction, logic, charts, etc

>> No.10318102

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y8_RRaZW5X3xwztjZ4p0XeRplqebYwpmuNNpaN_TkgM/mobilebasic?pli=1

>> No.10318174

Start with De Beauvoir

>> No.10318180

i think its common to start with Plato's Republic

>> No.10318185

>>10318180

I want somthing to read before starting the actual works.

For instance, I'm really curious about LOGIC

>> No.10318195

>>10318185
i think thats working backwards

>> No.10318197

>>10318185
Aristotle's Organon is the classic textbook of logic

>> No.10318203
File: 34 KB, 759x408, 1484574420_Dorothy Drink.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
10318203

>>10318077
Start with the spanish

Whatever you do, DO NOT START WITH MACADONIANS

>> No.10318208

>>10318195

In what sense?
I mean, if I don't understand Logic in its whole all philosophy becomes useless, because it uses Logic as axiom

>> No.10318223

>>10318208
I dont think im really the best person to expalin this. Socrates doesn't really well defined logic, the whole book is more or less a thought experiment

>> No.10318228

>>10318208
you're overthinking it. just start reading, mein n word.

>> No.10318229

>>10318185
read deez nuts

then organon, like other anon said. it will teach you to think.

>> No.10318233

>>10318203
And do not

repeat

DO NOT

do not feed the Greeks after midnight

>> No.10318247

>>10318228
>>10318223
>>10318229

alright, I guess

So you guys didn't read introductory books before starting with philosophy?

>> No.10318248

If you want a solid basis, listen to the first 51 episodes of this podcast:

https://www.historyofphilosophy.net/all-episodes

Then read an introduction. Personally I enjoyed Bertrand Russell's "A History of Philosophy" the most (/lit will say this one is biased though, but I am hopeful that everyone here has the critical apparatus to be able to judge a text by themselves). I also read Will Durants' "The Story of Philosophy." This one is really good, but there is a caveat and that is that it only covers specific philosophers so the book wouldn't be too long (at least that is what Durant says in the introduction). Others on /lit/ I think are most likely to recommend Anthony Kenny's "A Brief History of Western Philosophy," but I haven't personally read this, so I can't comment on that book.

>> No.10318253

>>10318247
The Greeks are the tutorial level

>> No.10318268

>>10318247
i guess a better way to put it is there no use in using a defined system if the greeks didnt define anything, its like learning all about something before learning the history of that thing

>> No.10318274

>>10318268
>>10318253
>>10318248


alright, thanks guys