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Five Dialogues by Plato

Discourse on the Method and Meditations of Descartes.

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Conquest of Happiness maybe.

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A New History of Western Philosophy by Anthony Kenny

Not OP
Is this accurate?

Part 1, filesize too big

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Part 2

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This is the only correct answer. If not the loeb, find another edition. But this is where you start.

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There are some good suggestions, so yes - maybe getting a good annotated edition of the Iliad is the best way of starting with the Greeks

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The cartoon introduction to philosophy

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which five

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stay away from philosphy until youre an adult of 30 years old
read literature

The thriller Neuropath is actually a decent summary of the implications of neuroscience and philosophy of mind. Quick read.

IDK, I listened to the Great Courses Great Ideas of Western Philosophy and read Durrant's Story of Philosophy at the same time and came away with a surface level knowledge.

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Is this book unironically any good?

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completely changed my life, made me straight again XD

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Beyond Good and Evil

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You can dl for free yourself https://b-ok.lat/book/5623643/44222a

Bertrand Russel is incredibly palatable and easy to start with

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Do I need to read Zarathustra before Good and Evil or does it stand on its own well enough?

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If you know Spanish
Lecciones Preliminares de Filosofía by Manuel García Morente is an extremely based book if you have 0 philosophy background.

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No

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If by good you mean extremely hilarious, yes, very.

There are many valid starting points, just remember that philosophy is about reasoning through the problems yourself. Your reading must be active. If you don't challenge what you're reading and looking to find mistakes in it, you're doing it wrong.
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Secondary background literature and histories of philosophy are useful, you'll find that they greatly enhance your understanding of original texts (even Homer will inform your reading of Greek philosophers). That being said, they are obviously no substitute and don't delay jumping into Plato and Aristotle for too long.
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This here is a great place to start as far as original texts go. You don't need any prerequisites for it and you can gain confidence by poking holes in his arguments, which isn't hard.
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Good place to start as well. It gets you reasoning about relevant philosophical problems very quickly.

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