philosophy recommendations

Commence with the Hellenes.

>>9495925
Ok, but is there like a read order? Where do I start?

Iliad and Odyssey. If you finish them read some Plato. Throw Clouds by Aristophanes in there to take the edge off.

>>9495920
If you're only going to be there for a week, then I'd bring texts that pertain directly to your interests. What philosophical questions or fields interest you, OP?

>>9495998
I read quite fast, and usually go through at least 1k pages. This time I won't be high all the time, so I expect to do more.

Also, I don't have any particular interests. I just never had the time to read philosophy, so I decided I should start now. I'm not going to stop reading it after I come home, that's why I'm asking for an exhaustive list. Also, is the /lit/ wiki a meme, or is it good?

>>9496029
The wiki is quite good.

I know a lot of folks here are gonna recommend you start with the Greeks, and that's fine advice for people newly beginning with philosophy, but, in my opinion, it applies primarily to people looking to gain a foundational base to enter the history of philosophy, and not someone who wants to read for a week some philosophical texts, if that makes sense.

Anyway, I'd recommend the Plato's Death of Socrates dialogues---the "Five Dialogues," which consists of Meno, Phaedo, Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito---Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, and Thomas Nagel's book What Does It All Mean?. That's about a weeks worth of serious reading there, and touches upon a very broad net of subjects while remaining highly accessible.

If you had a specific subject or topic in mind, for example like politics or meaning of life or ethics or the nature of being, then my list would look quite different, but if you were in my room and last-minute asked me "Hey, give some philosophy books for my vacation" those are the books I'd pull off of my shelf.