A non-philosopher's attempt to persuade you that reading philosophy is beneficial to all other literary pursuits. I also provide a starting point and a reading list.
A wise sage for your journey:
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My survey/landscape recommendations:
1. The history of philosophy, Durant
2. A History of Western Philosophy, Russell
3. Plato at the Googleplex, Goldstein
My top source recommendations:
1. Republic, Plato
2. Nicomachean ethics, Aristotle
3. The Prince, Machiavelli
4. Complete Essays, Bacon
5. Discourse on method and meditations on first philosophy, Descartes
6. Leviathan, Hobbes
7. Theological-political treatise, Spinoza
8. Thoughts, Pascal
9. Ethics, Spinoza
10. Second treatise on government, Locke
11. An Essay on Human Understanding, Locke
12. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, Berkeley
13. An Inquiry into Human Understanding, Hume
14. The social contract, Rousseau
15. Candide, Voltaire
16. Critique of pure reason, Kant
17. Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel
18. The world as will and presentation, Schopenhauer
19. Elements of the philosophy of law, Hegel
20. Fear and trembling, Kierkegaard
21. The Communist Manifesto, Marx
22. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Vol. 1, Marx
23. Beyond good and evil, Nietzsche
24. On the genealogy of morality, Nietzsche
25. Being and time, Heidegger
26. Philosophical investigations, Wittgenstein
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