Micah Schwarcz: If I was a Prof. of Phil., I would start my students with the Syntopicon, because it takes the "topics" about which philosophers wrote, and divides its short chapters that way. You don't get confused about who said what, because who said what ABOUT what is all in one short chapter. If you tell your teacher/prof you've read the Syntopicon, you'll blow his/her socks off. It is the best selling anthology of philosophy ever written, because it breaks the subject into "topics". Hence, the Syntopicon.It's so much easier to see what all the great thinkers said about a topic, then move on to the next, as opposed to trying to read comparisons of philsophies or philosophers.But you will only find it in the library, because it's part of a huge collection of books called The Great Ideas of the Western World. The Syntopicon is volumes II and III.Each chapter is only about 12 pages long, so you are not bogged down by too much information. But you will certainly be way a! head of other students who won't even know what the topics are.Angel; Animal; Aristocracy; Art; Astronomy; Beauty; Being; Cause; Chance; Change; Citizen; Constitution; Courage; Custom and Convention; Definition; Democracy; Desire; Dialectic; Duty; Education; Element; Emotion; Eternity; Evolution; Experience; Family; Fate; Form; God; Good and Evil; Government; Habit; Happiness; History; Honor; Hypothesis; Idea; Immortality; Induction; Infinity; Judgment; Justice; Knowledge; Labor; Language; Law; Liberty; Life and Death; Logic; Love; Man; Mathematics; Matter; Mechanics; Medicine; Memory and Imagination; Metaphysics; Mind; Monarchy; Nature; Necessity and Contingency; Oligarchy; One and Many; Opinion; Opposition; Philosophy; Physics; Pleasure and Pain; Poetry; Principle; Progress; Prophecy; Prudence; Punishment; Quality; Quantity; Reasoning; Relation; Religion; Revolution; Rhetoric; Same and Other; Science; Sense; Sign and Symbol; Sin; Slavery; Soul; Space; State; Temperance; T! heology; Time; Truth; Tyranny; Universal and Particular; Virtu! e and Vice; War and Peace; Wealth; Will; Wisdom; World"While the Syntopicon demonstrates the possibility and profit of intellectual collaboration in the sphere of the liberal arts, the humanities, and philosophy, it also demonstrates concretely and vividly the reality of the great conversation [which is Philosophy]..."The Syntopicon answers questions simply and plainly by actually recording the great conversation in all its concrete details. As the name suggests, the Syntopicon is a collection of topics. These are the themes or topics of the great conversation about the basic problems and issues that have always confronted mankind." Wikipedia...Show more
Toya Braskett: go through some self-help books and read "Alchemist" by Paulo coelho.or join book community sites
Gennie Shauer: Hermann Hesse's collection of literature is well worth a look.
Alexander Villas: This is a choice question -- my congratulations. I understand your meaning; but I think what make! s great literature great is that it maintains a philosophical outlook. The difference between literature (True Literature) as opposed to mere melodrama is that the latter simply tells a story, while the former has a point to make. It gives thematic unity to the story, characters and events which transcend the mere plot, and forces us to recognize that these people and things have a greater importance, and thus, are symbolic representations of fundamental human strivings. Consider the novels of Dostoevsky, the plays of Shakespeare, the works of Camus, etc. These are all people who went beyond story-telling to give us a glimpse of the human condition. They were, to coin a phrase, "Literary Philosophers;" and that is precisely why their works have endured. The fundamentals of the human condition do not change -- and thus, those who give us a philosophical understanding of human motives and motivations are guaranteed immortality. Hope this helps. Cheers....Show more
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Ronny Nowzari: Sophie's world was a great gather of all the currents from antiquity to modern day philosophy, and each current were described and given a few authors that influenced it.how about you pick a current that you found interesting and get books from the suggested authors ? that was the plan of the book.
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