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A Starting Point...
Looking for a list of good reads that will get me started

A Starting Point...

|2eplica
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Posted 06/25/07 - 07:56 PM: Subject: A Starting Point...	#1
Hello, So I've been trolling on these forums for a while with few posts. I was wondering if anyone knows a place that I can get a list of good books to get me started in the world of Philosophy. I always go to the Library but never know what to get, I grabbed a Schopenhauer book but it referenced a lot of Kants thoughts, so I was semi-lost half the time. I don't have a preference, but any good books that will get me started would be much appreciated.
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Posted 06/25/07 - 10:08 PM:	#2
Try "The Philosophy Gym " by Stephen Law.: Bite-sized chunks of the hot topics. Brian Magee's conversations with philosophers in "The Great Philosophers" got me started, and his book on Schopenhauer is very readable. OneWorld Thinkers has a good series on individual philosophers. online I recommend http://www.philosophynow.org/ http://www.iep.utm.edu/ http://plato.stanford.edu/

Landlady
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Posted 06/25/07 - 10:42 PM:	#3
SparkNotes.com is also a good site. It also publishes SparkNotes 101 books that give you a general overview of any given subject area.
There is time to laugh and there is time not to laugh, and this is not one of them. - Insp. Clouseau. From the moment absurdity is recognized, it becomes a passion, the most harrowing of all. But whether or not one can live with one's passions, whether or not one can accept their law, which is to burn the heart they simultaneously exalt--that is the whole question. � Camus.

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