Recommended books on philosophy?

[Geoff-Allen]

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I was browsing this site and it has an article about philosophy books. A few I had never heard of -

11 Best Philosophical Books to Expand Your Mind in 2021

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[amorphous_constellation]

enjoying my day ? Eh I'm kinda bored.. it's getting into negative digits outside.. took 2 showers , did all the reading I want to do for the day

too much coffee nowhere to go

For philosophy I guess I like stuff by the ancient greeks and romans.. lots on ethics

I can't really handle it if it involves math

 

[epronovost]

On top of my head, I would add the following:

Age of Reason of Thomas Paine
The Rebel of Albert Camus
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Madness and Civilisation by Michel Foucault
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan

 

[Thief]

Animal Farm...by George Orwell

 

[Bear Wild]

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I was browsing this site and it has an article about philosophy books. A few I had never heard of -

11 Best Philosophical Books to Expand Your Mind in 2021

Feel free to add your own!

Ciao!

Conscience The origins of moral intuition by Patricia Churchland.
She was trained in philosophy but became influenced by the recent developments in neuroscience and gives a very different take on philosophy. One of the better books I have read.

 

[Thief]

I can't really handle it if it involves math

Realativity...by Albert Einstein

some math.....but an attempt to reach all

isbn 0-517-029618

I keep my copy at bedside

 

[Thief]

too much coffee nowhere to go

atta boy.....

 

[blü 2]

Greetings fellow earthlings!

Hope you are enjoying your time today here at the forum & elsewhere.

I was browsing this site and it has an article about philosophy books. A few I had never heard of -

11 Best Philosophical Books to Expand Your Mind in 2021

Feel free to add your own!

Ciao!

Hmm. The list you link seems not to distinguish clearly between philosophy on the one hand and "self-improvement" and "life advice" on the other.

The last philosophy book I bought was A.C. Grayling's The History of Philosophy (Viking, 2019). It's easy to read, comprehensive, and good at expressing the more complex ideas clearly and concisely. (It covers much of the ground of my old Stumpf, Philosophy: History and Problems (5th edn. 1971) but from a more current perspective.)

However, neither of those is particularly helpful about how to win friends and influence people, understand your cat, or be a better phone salesman.

 

[Mock Turtle]

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, which I did read many years ago, seemed more like (as per title) a description and exploration of these processes in the mind than being more philosophical, but it was a long time ago. I did experience such perhaps once or twice.

 

[robocop (actually)]

My theoretical philosophy books of course.

 

[LightofTruth]

For an interest in the history of philosophy there is "A history of philosophy" by Frederick Copeleston.

It's a history of western philosophy written by a Jesuit Priest.

There are nine volumes and I had them in paperback which separated each volume into parts. So there are something like 17 paperback books.

I found them to be very good when I was studying the history of philosophy.

 

[Polymath257]

A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

The Problem of Knowledge by Ayer

A Theory of Justice by Rawls

A History of Philosophy by Coplestone (9 volumes)

A Treatise of Human Nature by Hume

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

On the Nature of Things by Lucretius

 

[Polymath257]

For an interest in the history of philosophy there is "A history of philosophy" by Frederick Copeleston.

It's a history of western philosophy written by a Jesuit Priest.

There are nine volumes and I had them in paperback which separated each volume into parts. So there are something like 17 paperback books.

I found them to be very good when I was studying the history of philosophy.

Beat me to it.