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5 Reddit comments about Philosophy 101: From Plato and Socrates to Ethics and Metaphysics, an Essential Primer on the History of Thought (Adams 101):

u/dewayneroyj · 6 pointsr/intj

Read Philosophy 101 to get a broad understanding of different philosophers and their philosophies. From there, you can choose who/what interest you most. The first philosophy book that I read was “Mans Search for Meaning” it’s short and helped develop my personal meaning of life.

u/Sherbert42 · 3 pointsr/askphilosophy

Thanks for mentioning you're seventeen; it does make a difference (to my mind!). M'colleagues below have recommended some pretty heavy reading, which I don't think is what you're really looking for on the face of it. If I were to recommend a book about philosophy to a seventeen-year-old, I wouldn't recommend a textbook, I'd recommend the following:

Plato and a Platypus walk into a bar. This is a book of jokes about philosophy. They're not very funny, but it's a good way to learn some ideas. Doesn't talk about people (old dead white men, for the most part); focuses on ideas.

The Pig that Wants to be Eaten. This is a little less frivolous; it's 100 little thought experiments. I'd say this is a bite-at-a-time book; read one, put the book down and think about it for a bit, then read another. I really enjoyed this.

Philosophy 101. This little volume is a pretty decent intro to some of the key ideas and thinkers of philosophy. No, it's not a textbook and it's not written by a professional philosopher, which is why I've recommended it. Its mistakes are small enough that if you get interested and start reading some more about the topic you'll pick up where the author went wrong pretty quickly. Again, this is a bite-at-a-time book.

Hope that helps, and of course if you find an idea and you have questions about it: ask away. :)

u/pop_philosopher · 2 pointsr/askphilosophy

This is the book that got me into Philosophy around the same age. Good introduction and overview of many philosophical topics.

You might also consider some online resources. Crash Course is always a good starting point. Their philosophy series is pretty good, sometimes criticized for not exploring arguments deeply enough, but I think that's to be expected for entry level material geared towards high schoolers. Wireless Philosophy has tons of great courses written and narrated by various professors and grad students. They also go into more detail than crash course and are probably a more reliable source. Hope this helps!

u/aoisdufhaoisudhf · 1 pointr/mallninjashit

> I'm not lacking in education on the subject and I know bluffing when I see it.

I don't believe you, and I think you're bluffing. If you had a formal education you wouldn't assert the independence of political theory from moral theory. You'd also have at least a superfluous understanding of universals. So I call bullshit right back at you.

> You've spent most of your time referencing things that you won't name. Put a name to something. I also don't need a philosophical reference to many of my questions, I just need a direct answer.

I've spent most of my time trying to explain collectivism. I've been explicit. You've spent most of the time not listening.

I'm not going to type out and explain basic concepts to you. If I need to define philosophy froom the ground up we're not going to get anywhere. But we obvisouly don't see eye to eye wrt. the definitions ethics and politics. The suggestion you pick up a book was not meat as an insult, it was sincere. As to which book I really don't care. Anything they use in HS or at freshman-level in college should presumably cover everything we've talked about, except perhaps how properties relate to entities. Literally go and type "Philosophy 101 on Amazon". This came up for me.

> How do you define a business?

The fact that you choose to focus on this is another reason why I don't believe you've got any formal training in philosophy whatsoever. This isn't the core of what we're discussing and won't help to progress the conversation in any way. I would be Googling moral agency in your place.

I'll answer anyways: I'm fine with how wiki defines it: "A company is a legal entity made up of an association of people (...)" (Emphasis mine)

In the context of our discussion, it's a means to an end - a formalized cooperative venture between moral agents. The end in qustion can be altruistic or egoistic, but the company itself can't have moral agency.

u/CricketPinata · 1 pointr/milliondollarextreme

If you want to just know buzzwords to throw around, spend a bunch of time clicking around on Wikipedia, and watch stuff like Crash Course on YouTube. It's easy to absorb, and you'll learn stuff, even if it's biased, but at least you'll be learning.

If you want to become SMARTER, one of my biggest pieces of advice is to either carry a notebook with you, or find a good note taking app you like on your phone. When someone makes a statement you don't understand, write it down and parse it up.

So for instance, write down "Social Democracy", and write down "The New Deal", and go look them up on simple.wikipedia.com (Put's all of it in simplest language possible), it's a great starting point for learning about any topic, and provides you a jumping board to look more deeply into it.

If you are really curious about starting an education, and you absolutely aren't a reader, some good books to start on are probably:

"Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words" by Randall Munroe

"A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

"Philosophy 101" by Paul Kleinman, in fact the ____ 101 books are all pretty good "starter" books for people that want an overview of a topic they are unfamiliar with.

"The World's Religions" by Huston Smith

"An Incomplete Education" by Judy Jones and Will Wilson

Those are all good jumping off points, but great books that I think everyone should read... "A History of Western Philosophy" by Bertrand Russell, "Western Canon" by Harold Bloom, "Education For Freedom" by Robert Hutchins, The Norton Anthology of English Literature; The Major Authors, The Bible.

Read anything you find critically, don't just swallow what someone else says, read into it and find out what their sources were, otherwise you'll find yourself quoting from Howard Zinn verbatim and thinking you're clever and original when you're just an asshole.