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Start with the Greeks

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>>9303763
>Start with the Greeks
I wish people would stop giving out this horrible advice.

You should start with finding out what ideas interest you the most. However, since you're just getting started you might not have a good sense of what ideas there are out there. A good way to familiarize yourself with prominent ideas is to get an overview of the history of philosophy. Sophie's World would be good for that if you are just getting started, or if you'd rather not have the fluff you could read an intro philosophy textbook. Once you've familiarized yourself with the general history of philosophy you have a good sense of what was on minds of people throughout the ages. It's like being provided a table of context. Once you have that table in mind then you should choose a particular idea to learn the history of. For example, if you read Sophie's World and were particularly interested in the section on Marx you might then decide to read The Main Currents of Marxism to gain a knowledge of the history of those ideas and how they ended up being manifested in Marx. At that point it would then be worth your while to read the classics within that area. Unlike just reading the classics blind like the person I quoted said. That doesn't do you much good, you don't know what you're reading or why it is important. It's just an old book if you don't know the context of them in history.

>>9303753
Start with funny books, stuff which does not take itself too serious, as it rewards you pretty quickly for reading walls of texts. Your brain will accociate reading with fun and not with boredom. From there, read less and less funny stuff.

>>9303796
>I wish people would stop giving out this horrible advice.

It's good advice if you want to get into serious philosophy and literature while understanding what context it occurred in and why this matter. People who don't read the Greeks don't get how insightful and on point they were or how little change there was in human intellect between then and now. You don't have to start with them at all, but it's not a bad idea to expose yourself to Greek thought sooner rather than later.

>>9304073
>while understanding what context it occurred in and why this matter.
But that was the point of my post. You don't know the context of the Greeks or how their line of through can be traced through time if you don't get a proper overview from something like Sophie's World or an intro philosophy textbook.

>>9305441
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