introduction to philosophy..... help!

[malg]

now I have time on my hands I fancy reading a bit of philosophy. Can anyone recommend a good starting point? I've heard the the 'Dummies' one is shite. Therefore, recommendations?

 

[buckshot]

How can you be sure that you decided to read about philosophy? That is assuming you have free will.

 

[johnny on the spot]

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[Manc in London]

now I have time on my hands I fancy reading a bit of philosophy. Can anyone recommend a good starting point? I've heard the the 'Dummies' one is shite. Therefore, recommendations?

What area(s) of philosophy are you interested in?

If you don't know what takes your fancy, then I suggest reading a book that introduces you to the works of Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, the Epicureans and Stoicists.

Many of the philosophers that followed were heavily influenced by these.

My own favourites are Arthur Schopenhauer, Bertrand Russell and David Hulme.

 

[ifwecouldjust......]

now I have time on my hands I fancy reading a bit of philosophy. Can anyone recommend a good starting point? I've heard the the 'Dummies' one is shite. Therefore, recommendations?

If you have a chair in an empty room ....is it still a chair?

 

[buckshot]

For a primer, I'd watch this:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur5fGSBsfq8[/youtube]

 

[Zin 'messiah' Zimmer]

start with the daddy Friedrich Nietzsche and work your way back through the ages, if you can understand him the rest is a doddle!@!!!!

 

[BimboBob]

To work out where you are going you first have to check your map.

 

[bumbleblue]

Read Sophies world by Jostein Gaarder, its a novel but i think its a bloody good history of philosophy in a very readable format.

 

[yeseye]

'These is tha futball, honly these.'