Hey /lit/! I'm a newfag on this board and I'd love

>>8395649
The best way to start with philosophy is ancient Greece and Rome, I would recommend that you read some Plato, Ciceron, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Seneca first. The presocratics are vastly more interesting to me than Plato/Aristoteles, but I think they could be hard as a starting point.
The same applies to historical texts, you have a vast range of ancient historiography that is somewhat mixed with philosophy and mythology.
I would recommend, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plutarch, Caesar (yes, the man himself)... should be enough for a start.

If you're just looking for a good book as a start I would recommend the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (Also known as Ad se Ipsum, Selbstgesprache... depends of the translation)

I always recommend this to newfags even though it's not a book desu:

http://historyofphilosophy.net/

>>8395679
This is really nice. Thanks for sharing!

>>8395679
Thanks, man, this is good stuff.

>>8395671
>Plato
>Aristoteles

If you're going to say Aristoteles instead of Aristotle, why not Platon instead of Plato? Or, ya know, you could just use the names that literally everybody calls them and stick with Aristotle.

Aristotle [Sir David Ross]
Medieval Foundations of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 400-1400 [Marcia L Colish]
Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction [Edward Feser]