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I'm interested in reading Philosophy but I don't know

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I'm interested in reading Philosophy but I don't know where to start.Is there any recommended good books for someone like me?
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Start with Illiad and Odyssey since you'll find them referenced quite often in philosophical works. Also make sure to read Theogony to get familiar with Greek universe of Gods and myths, without it you won't understand half of implications scattered through the works.

Don't bother much with presocratics, not much is known about them anyway and i suggest just reading the most basic stuff to get the idea what they're saying. Aristotle mentions presocratics from time to time anyway.

Don't start immediately with the Republic, it will only confuse you. read shit like Phaedrus or Symposion first. Once you finish Plato it's smooth sailing with Aristotle since his opus is basically just one big response to Plato's ideas.
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Start with Marcus Aurelias meditations. It serves as a perfect baseline for the purpose and reasons for Philosophy, and introduces many fundementally modern (in the context of post-civilisation) human concepts - it serves as a good 'trunk'.

Much of the work of finding 'your' philosophy is about what resonates with the thoughts you already suffer. To dig towards this you should get a good surface-knowledge of the 'branches' of the tree. Metaphysics, Epistomology, Ethics and Aesthetics (I personally have spent zero time looking into Aethetics and I've been participating for over a decade).

From there, you'll have bumped into enough names and ideas to start walking your own path.
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