What are some good reads on philosophy?

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Arthur Schopenhauer
Immanuel Kant

Aristotle
Ayn Rand

Don't waste your time with Kant, no point in filling your head with nonsense.

Good place to star is with Aristotle and Plato.

This post was edited by Paran0id on Mar 4 2010 11:13pm

Sophie's World - A novel about the history of philosophy.

Mostly consisting of dialogues between Sophie Amundsen and a mysterious man named Alberto Knox, interwoven with an increasingly bizarre and mysterious plot, Sophie's World acts as both a novel and a basic guide to philosophy.

I will give you authors, sir, and if you read them you will have a firm grasp of the canon of Western philosophy:

Plato
Aristotle
Heraclitus
Epicureus
Rene Descartes
David Hume
John Locke
Jeremy Bentham
John Stuart Mill
Karl Marx
Jean-Paul Sartre
Friedrich Nietzsche
Albert Camus
Soren Kierkegaard
Friedrich Hegel
Immanuel Kant


And there are most definitely others, sir, but this will afford you a firm grasp of philosophy.

this book will give you a general overview and greatly help you decide which philosopher interests you most.
it is also written in understandable language ( i read it first when i was 13 years old.. )
If you start with Karl Marx or Hegel the chances are high that you will never even touch another philosophy book again, since they're amongst the worst authors that have ever been printed and distributed.

Descartes or Plato.

I just finished the fountainhead by Ayn Rand. Absolute crap. 500 pages of nothing and then 200 ish pages of preaching crap and shoving a message down your throat with 5 page long speaches while the character he is talking to basically tunes it out. I honestly have no idea how this book has been around for so long, it takes no talent or writing ability to take 720 pages to say what you want. At one point a character is basically talking for the sake of rand saying I rant on and on and on forever and there's like 1 sentence in my entire rant to take away from it.

This post was edited by Thor123422 on Mar 26 2010 10:55pm