What is a good sort of philosophy for beginers/philosophy 101/introduction to philosophy type book? :)?
Here’s a list to get you started. The introduction books go from easy to hard based upon reading ability. None of the introduction works really assumes any prior knowledge about philosophy. After that I listed some websites and then some actual books by philosophers. Think of the list as more like an ideal guide of what someone should know to claim they know philosophy. Introduction works: “From Socrates to Sartre: The Philosophic Quest” by T.Z. Lavine (easy) “A History of Western Philosophy” by Bertrand Russell (mostly easy) “Story of Philosophy” by Will Durant (easy) “History of Philosophy” by Frederick Copleston, S.J.,(immediate to hard) “History of Political Philosophy”, edited by Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey.(immediate to hard) Websites: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/co… http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philos…
