Dostoevsky
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Read 'beyond good and evil'.
>Life of Pi?
No
>It's a pretty good entry-level fiction
No it's not
>and has some clever ideas in the end about the existence of God
No it doesn't
>It'd be a good segue into actual discussions on God's existence and, in a way, philosophy as a whole
No it wouldn't
You failed on every level. Go to bed, Yann
But.. But.. He goes to Hindu, Muslim AND Christian Church. Doesn't that really make you question your current belief system?
Dialogues of Plato
Whatever version you can find, it'll probably have the popular ones in there. There is no reason to start anywhere else. It is the beginning of Western philosophy proper and it is shit easy to read relative to the rest. It also reads like fiction in many parts.
Read in this order:
Presocratics
Plato
Xenophon
Aristotle
Plotinus
Proclus
Augustine
Aquinas
Ockham
Scotus
Ficino
Descartes
Spinoza
Hume
Berkeley
Kant
Schelling
Hegel
Schopenhauer
Nietzsche
Stirner
Heidegger
Sloterdjik
Thank You, this is a good answer aside from the fact it doesn't mention Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, Camus or Wittgenstein.
Sophie's World
Bertrand Russell's a history of western philosophy
Pic related. Supplement with the Meno, go on to the Republic. Then the first two sections of Hobbes's Leviathan, then the entirety of Beyond Good and Evil.
Was a year long class my freshman year of college, it's what got me into philosophy.
Forgot pic because philosophy doesn't teach basic life skills.