Where2startwithphilosophy?

>implying Hume isn't secondary literature to Kant
:^)

Descartes' Meditations
Plato's Republic
Leviathan

Descartes' addresses the issue of free will in the presence of a benevolent God. Eg. Why human beings are capable of committing "evil" acts. He also discusses how our faculty of knowledge and free will are conducive to a belief in God.

1. go to - gen.lib.rus.ec/
2. search for - Daniel W. Graham editor and translator The Texts of Early Greek Philosophy The Complete Fragments and Selected Testimonies of the Major Presocratics
3. download
4. read

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Read in this order:

Descartes->Plato->Aristotle->Locke->Spinoza->Leibniz->Berkeley->Hume->Kant->Fichte->Schelling->Hegel

Then after that it's simply your choice who else to read on.

Realisticlly speaking this is all you need

Pre Socratics -> Plato -> Aristotole -> Kant -> Nietszche

How should I approach Descartes writings? I've got the three volumes of The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, should I just read them in the order they are presented in these books?

bump

docs.google.com/document/d/1y8_RRaZW5X3xwztjZ4p0XeRplqebYwpmuNNpaN_TkgM/pub

>you may not even really have to read the Critique of Pure reason directly if you're diligent.
care to explain?

>Realize Plato was right all along

>high school
>philosophy textbook
US has those?

Read his Meditations and move on to another philosopher, all the rest of his writings is utter trash

You can skip all philosophy and just read Stirner. It's fairly self-contained, and is the final form of philosophy.

Rather than jumping into the texts themselves straight away read something like Bertrand russels history of western philosophy. I listened to the audiobook before starting my major in philosophy and it helped a lot.

Surprised there's never any actual answers to this. As someone who actually started with the Greeks here's the simplest way to go:

Hesiod
Homer
Optional:
Lyric Poets
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Epictetus
Aristophanes
Plato
Aristotle
Then any other Greek philosopher you want

oh yeah an add Presocratics after Aristophanes in optional

>Bertrand russels
His father was a cuck

I'm just gonna use this thread and ask something.
Was there any philoshoper who had a big turn of how he thinks? Like a 180 in his view and philosophy?

Yes

It's definitely not common, but probably happens in some schools.

Step 1: Start with Erdmann's History of Philosophy
>hegel.net/erdmann/Erdmann1889-History_of_Philosophy_Vol1.pdf
>hegel.net/erdmann/Erdmann1889-History_of_Philosophy_Vol2.pdf
>hegel.net/erdmann/Erdmann1889-History_of_Philosophy_Vol3.pdf

Then read in the order:

Rene Descartes->Malebranche->Plato->Aristotle->Stoics->Augustine->Aquinas->Locke->Spinoza->Leibniz->Mendelssohn->Berkeley->Hume->Kant->(Hobbes->Rousseau->Montesqiueu->Voltaire->De Tocquivelle->Bentham->J.S Mill->Adam Smith)->Fichte->Schelling->Hegel->Schopenhauer->Nietzsche->Kierkegaard->Husserl->Heidegger->Sartre

Brackets are for political theory.

PROTIP:You can find writings of most writers on either genesis library or wikisource or classics.mit.edu.

>not reading the stickywiki on a board about reading

>final form of philosophy
>implying that's a thing