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Philosophy books under 300 pages?

Mako
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Posted 08/31/09 - 07:48 AM:	#11
-"On Liberty" by J.S. Mill, -"Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals" by Kant. There are many, many introductory books on philosophy under 300 pages. ...or just read Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" one section at a time over 10 years. Edited by Mako on 08/31/09 - 04:45 PM
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Posted 09/14/09 - 01:05 PM:	#12
I enjoyed Copleston's nine volume history as an introductory overview. Each volume in around 300 pages. In regard to Kant, volume V (Hume) & VI (Kant) are good intro before tackling Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason".

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Posted 09/27/09 - 05:31 AM:	#13
Try "Philosophical Investigations" by Ludwig Wittgenstein. That should keep you busy for the next 10 years also. Wittgenstein himself said that if you read and master his book you never need read another on philosophy!

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Posted 09/28/09 - 09:19 PM:	#14
To this list of great suggestions, I should add Language, Truth, and Logic by A.J. Ayer, and Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.

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Posted 09/28/09 - 09:22 PM:	#15
Schlitz wrote: ... and Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Technically, W would not consider that book as a Philosophy book... it's rather a bunch of marks you read and then throw away once you're done
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