What books do I need to read to have a basic understanding of philosophy without actually spending a decade reading...

What books do I need to read to have a basic understanding of philosophy without actually spending a decade reading hundreds of books.

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicurus
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotinus
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proclus
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boethius
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_happiness
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Bacon
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duns_Scotus
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch_Spinoza
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Stirner
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Husserl
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Merleau-Ponty
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Deleuze
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Baudrillard
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Debord
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Land
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Peterson
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read wittgenstein and forget about philosophy for the rest of your life

just take the redpill, fellow frogman
down with women nonwhites and liberals

praise Kek!

Why do leftists continue to try and portray /pol/ as uneducated and cringe? It's sad how they don't realize their projection.

Read a good secondary overview. Kenny's A New History of Western Philosophy is a popular rec here.

Sophie's world

Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Rousseau, Locke, Cicero, Hobbes, Machiavelli, Kant, Nietzsche

first of all, you can skip every continental philosopher after Nietzsche. Of analytic philosophy just read Wittgenstein, Frege if you're interested. Then you just have all the classical (pre 20th century I mean) philosophers. Really there aren't hundreds of books you need to read to get a decent grasp - I would say it's more like 15.

I did not like Kenny's writing and I suspect most on Veeky Forums wouldn't either. Don't make the mistake I did, just go with Bertrand and use Stanford.Plato with primary sources

> understanding
> without actual understanding
Hooray, you don't have to read anything!

>Adds Cicero
>No Descartes
>No Hegel
>No Heidegger
>No Witty

He said basic understanding of philosophy, not be a memer on Veeky Forums

Those aren't memes KID, Nietzsche is

Read Auguste Comte, Nietzsche, Immanuel Kant, and Ayn Rand in that order.

Get one of those introduction to philosophy books they use for 101 courses, something like . Or if you want something more fun .

The Stanford encyclopedia is also very nice, depending on the article (many of which will be above your level if you're just starting out). There's a bunch of nice podcasts; history of philosophy without any gaps, philosophy bites, philosophize this (probably the easiest one to get started with), and partially examined life ( not that good for actually learning stuff if you haven't read the text they're discussing, but very fun).

Depending on what you're interested in, here are some important works:

Plato: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo, Republic.

Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Metaphysics, Politics.

Descartes: Mediations.

Hobbes: Leviathan

Bentham/Mill to get consequentialism

Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature

Kant: prolegomena, critique: 1

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Beginning Brainlet's guide to Western philosophy. Read these articles in order.

>Incomplete list Antiquity to Middle Ages:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epictetus
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicurus
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotinus
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proclus
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boethius
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_happiness

>Relevant men Middle Ages to 20th century:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Bacon
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duns_Scotus
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch_Spinoza
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Stirner
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx

>Useless meandering faggots of the 20th century:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Husserl
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Merleau-Ponty
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Lévi-Strauss
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Deleuze
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Baudrillard
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Debord
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins

>21st century Saviours of Man
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Land
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Peterson

etc etc etc

>try and portray /pol/ as uneducated and cringe
>implying

first off start by ignoring these brainlets and any future brainlets who tell you you don't have to read a shit ton to understand philosophy and know what you're talking about


start with the greeks and move forward.


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Because it is. Get off this board and stop calling anyone who disagrees with you "a leftist"

>multiple people list greeks
>"ignore these people and start greeks"
maybe you should lrn2read before advising others senpai

you're the guy who linked the Wikipedia articles and posted the genocidal jewess actress picture?

don't ever respond to one of my posts again.

Holy shit you are such a faggot. Quoting half the posts in a thread? /thread-ing your own post? Getting defensive when you are called out for being illiterate? All you are missing is a trip, no one gives a shit about your garbage opinion.

learn to read faggot. OP said "basic understanding" and "without spending a decade."

Stop replying to me this instant. This garbage thread is over and concluded with. It attracts pseuds like your mothers shit smeared ass attracts flies.

You brainlets really need to stop blaming other people for your own illiteracy and while you're at it stop looking for excuses not to read.

I would stop replying to you, spawn of Satan, if you hadn't replied to every Anonymous in the goddamn thread. We are entitled to our opinions and I agree with my fellow wojaks. And I'm the one who posted the hot Jewess you can never have.

/pol/ is easily the dumbest board on the entire website

t. leftypol

Why is philosophy so important?

t. cuck.

i disagree, /tv/ is the dumbest board followed by /pol/

>Ayn Rand

I spent a week browsing /tv/ once and I thought those guys were hilarious. Then again, all their memes and jokes were novel for me.

You can't OP, there is no short route, ignore the wikipedia fags or you'll end up becoming a 3rd rate libertarian pseud who listens to e-celebs podcasts for insights.

what about /b/ and /x?

/tv/ is occasionally good for dan schneider jokes

Read:
>Republic and 3 dialogues that interest you by Plato
>Ethics, Metaphysics, and one other book that interests you by Aristotle
>Either Discourse on the Method or Meditations by Descartes
>Essay Concerning Human Understanding by Locke
>Either the Treatise of Human Nature or both Enquiries by Hume
>Groundwork for the Metaphyisics of Morals, the Prologomenna, and if you're up to it the Critiques of Pure Reason and Judgment by Kant
>Phenomenology of Spirit by Hegel if you're up to it

Then supplement this with whatever you're interested in (e.g. Leviathan if you're into politics, Meditations if you're into stoicism, maybe some Berkeley), and you should get a good grip on the canon

>and you should get a good grip on the canon