Encyclopedic book on philosophy

The School of Life on Youtube is a pretty good start desu

>>8902572
Thanks. I would prefer something that is written so that I can read it when I commute.

>>8903389
"Sophie's world"

It's a philosophy 101 course badly disguised as an anticlimactic novel.

>>8903431
don't read this op

Russell Bertrand: A History of Western Philosophy

Useful if you're interested in western philosophy, as the name implies, but misses out a few important figures. It's a history more than an encyclopaedia, and it tackles less with the ideas of philosophy than with how they came about.

lol no the ideas feature a lot too.

alternatively try wikipedia

>>8901230
pick one of these:

http://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate-admissions/philosophy-in-physics-and-philosophy-reading-list

>>8903453
>>8903464
Thanks be based.

https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/1y8_RRaZW5X3xwztjZ4p0XeRplqebYwpmuNNpaN_TkgM/pub

>>8903453
>>8903453

Never recommend this piece of shit.

Russell is unbelievably off the mark when it comes to Nietzsche/etc.

>>8901230
Just pick up some fucking Plato and read for Christ's sake. There is no "General Idea" of Philosophy.

>>8903827
Then what's better?

>>8904111
OP here, pls leave.

>>8903822
Also, thank you sir.

>>8903453
I started with this and in my interview to get into studying philosophy at university three years ago I impressed the professor by saying that Bertrand talks a lot of shit

I hadn't heard that from anyone and I had absolutely next to no knowledge of philosophy but even my young ass could tell he's full of garbage

>>8903822
I read Bryan Magee book that's recommended on there and liked it a lot and am starting Plato now. Anthony Kenny also has some books that have been spoken of highly on here. I glanced at it and it is really good, but I like how Magee organized his book more and it was shorter so I went with that. I planned on moving onto early Greeks anyway so I didn't invest heavily into the overview of it all.