Western Philosophy

>>10011399
Copleston's A History of Philosophy is the gold standard. The last volume is kind of shit, though.

Was anyone here ever able to finish one of those history of philosophy books?

I tend to drop them after a hundred pages so, and by that time I already forgot a lot of what I read and my notes tend to make no sense to me whatsoever.

A Little History of Philosophy by Nigel Warburton is pretty good

>>10011399
in b4 muh greeks

>>10011416
Seconding this. Copleston and Kenney are best. Disregard Russell.

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<----- then go back and read the original text of the bits that interest you.
anyone who says "read all of the original texts in their entirety" has never done so and should not be listened to

>>10011488
This is the best advice

>>10011416
Thanks, I'll give it a whirl. Not sure I'll last 5000 pages tho lol

>>10011488
Cheers, this one looks a bit more approachable. I have no intention of reading the entire western cannon haha, just the dot points will do

>>10011543
Try Magee then

>>10011543
Will Durant might be a good one for you then.

>>10011472
Why?

Diogenes Laërtius or gtfo. fuck the pretenders

>>10011399
sophie's world bc you get to learn the history alongside a qt norwegian girl.

>>10011416
>written by a jesuit priest

It covers everything I want but how religious biased is it?

>>10012885
It's not.

Read Kenney. Copleston is very long and contains untranslated text in Greek, Latin, etc. (it was written for Catholic seminarians)

>>10012939
Only the first one.

>>10011399
Strauss and Cropsey's History of Political Philosophy is the best book you can get for this kind of overview of the history of Western thought.

>>10012939
I'm reading Kenney right now, it's pretty good.