Thinking Philosophy

I want to get into reading some philosophy and keep my mind occupied.
Possible titles:

1. Critique of Pure Reason (Kant)
2. Beyond Freedom and Dignity (Skinner)
3. The Communist Manifesto (Marx and Engels)
4. The Philosophy of Liberty (Oruka)
5. Elbow Room (Dennett)
6. A Theory of Justice (Rawls)

Anymore ideas about other titles, hit me up.

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[mpenseli]

I shall certainly be looking these up later on today. Thanks for the informed choices. Keep you posted.

[InPetrospektive]

The Art of Worldly Wisdom, by Balthasar Gracian

[Sajeepanx10]

Try reading the social and political ideas of Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels

[waheybi]

Start with Socrates for the insight (thinking is what we do). Plato for the interesting idea, Aristotle to make it reasonable or not. Heidegger for a space for thinking. Spinoza for the self. Descartes for the false authority of mind. Nietzsche for the need of ego. Foucault for our terminal existentialism: Kant for the foundation of Philosophy (categories), Hegel for emotional issues in thinking, Wittgenstein to agree on the game and Derrida to deconstruct and keep it interesting an futile.

[waheybi]

Start with Socrates, Plato and Aristotle and 8 other early Greeks - Heidegger, Spinoze, Descartes, Nietzsche, Foucault, Kant, Hegel, Wittgenstein, and Derrida - in that order.

[mortald]

"Beyond freedom and dignity" by BF skinner is an amazing book. I highly recommend it.

[unassumption]

I know this is very late in the day but JS Mill's "On Liberty" and "Utilitarianism" are interesting, Hare's "moral thinking: it's levels, method and point" and Sidgewick's "Methods of Ethics"

[Individualism101]

Communism won't do you any good. At best it'll leave you feeling that success is shameful and at worst it will lead your country to bloody ruin.

[RationalEmotive]

The Communist Manifesto is not a philosophical text. Also you can or did read it by now within 2 hours, the Capital, all three volumes takes a shitload of time though.

My advice to begin with analytical philosophy and then work your way back to older texts and systems you have then some tools to dissect.

Cheers.

[ZacharyAllenCerrato]

I would recommend beginning with Plato. It SOUNDS extremely daunting and boring, but with the right translation it reads like a play. I recommend Robin Waterfield's translation - and also I recommend starting with the trial and death of Socrates - as they are the most dramatic

[ZacharyAllenCerrato]

I agree with some of those that have posted before I, a lot of the titles you listed are [important] historically, but they are difficult or dry reading - especially without studying and understanding the milieu-the context-the particular philosophical conversation taking place with which these works were dialoguing..