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Anyone have opinions on this book? Looking to get a basic familiarity with the field before I dig deeper into individual philosophers and wondering if this is a decent place to start cause I'm not gonna read Copleston
Here's the table of contents:
1. Plato and Socrates: The Fire and the Sun
2. Aristotle: The Spirit of Rational Enquiry
3. Epicurus and Zeno: How to Lead a Good Life
4. St Thomas Aquinas: The Unified Interpretation of Reality
5. René Descartes: Systematic Doubt as Philosophical Method
6. John Locke and Montesquieu: The Liberal State
7. Benedict de Spinoza: Rigorous Thought and Severe Conclusions
8. David Hume: Empirical Verification
9. Immanuel Kant: The Critique of Reason
10. Karl Marx: The March of History
11. Friedrich Nietzsche: The Will to Power
12. Ludwig Wittgenstein: Language and Reality
13. Martin Heidegger: We Have Forgotten Being
14. Jean-Paul Sartre: Existentialist Anguish
15. Jacques Derrida: Deconstructing Reality
I have decent familiarity with chapters 1-5 but only very basic knowledge of the rest.
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>>8206631
>not gonna read Copleston
just leave then
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>>8206631
This book looks like ass. Just Patrician up and read Copleston, bitch.
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i heard this was pretty good also copleston
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>no hegel
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>>8206741
I've heard that was worse than Copleston
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Don't read this and don't read Russel's abomination. Anything else should be fine :)
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>>8206631
>reading is hard
>I won't read the standard text
>I won't even read a basic paperback unless I get detailed advice from strangers first
Sounds to me like you might benefit from some handholding in the form of a video podcast lecture series.
http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/general-philosophy
Just pretend you're an undergraduate student at Oxford studying philosophy and let this based Hume scholar hold your hand through history of philosophy - Greeks to the 20th century.
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>>8206794
how is copleston bad
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Can someone knowledgeable tell me if this is worth following?
>>>http://philosophy.lander.edu/intro/index.html
It's an Introduction to Philosophy class, with a syllabus and open-source readings. It's a few years old and some of the links 404 but it looks like there's some worthwhile content here.
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how's this one?
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>>8206809
why is russel bad
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