Introduction, Recommendations
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Introduction, Recommendations
Location:Canada
Hello, Hope everyone is having a great and peaceful Sunday I like reading in my free time and having been through a variety of materials I felt a little ashamed that aside from the pace scanning for my GenEd midterms in University I am unable to say I have read any philosopher or books thereof, like "properly".
A week ago my copy of Sartre's Being and Nothingness arrived and I am struggling. Tbh I am kind of helpless with it all. And the ideas he is working with it, I came to understand through random forums on dr. Google, are equally complex. I don't want to just abandon the book without at least taking something that satisfies my curiosity. I only learned about him while surfing for psychoanalysis therapy.
I hope somebody can help me out with respect to a good starting point to grasp the basic framework of the major philosophical works; should I start with Kant or Hegel? Or maybe find books by modern writers that discuss the ideas in a more relatable language.
Thanks in advance and thank you for reading
P.S. Western Philosophy only please
2023/2024 Philosophy Books of the Month
Mark Victor Hansen, Relentless: Wisdom Behind the Incomparable Chicken Soup for the Soul
by Mitzi Perdue
February 2023
Rediscovering the Wisdom of Human Nature: How Civilization Destroys Happiness
by Chet Shupe
March 2023