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Similar thread was started before but it died out.
Post easy to read "philosophy" books that are very entry-level (do not require prior knowledge).
Pic related, will post more below.
This is to help those interested in "philosophy" but intimidated by the dedication most guides for "getting into it" call for.
Pic related.
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Tao Te Ching I would highly recommend, the following I would too if you liked the former.
You might want to skip this one if you find it too intimidating though, but it shouldn't be too difficult either.
Pic related serves as a great introduction to Buddhism, but if you're not the kind to enjoy theology, then do skip it.
Still, it would make your bookshelf look exotic to most plebians.
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>>7802336
Woops.
![9780140449334[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/vJmRUrD.jpg "9780140449334[1].jpg")
Pic related is probably the most common "philosophy" book known about to the average person.
Many modern analytics would consider it chicken soup for the soul more than philosophy, but I doubt they would deny that it's some bretty good soup.
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Who would have thought a dead white male from one or two millenniums ago could have made me cry so much?
>Tao Te Ching
>easy
Confirmed for pleb level reading.
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If you consider Eastern phil and most Hellenistic schools to be handwavey bullshit, pic related might better suit you.
If you never liked math pic related and modern analytic philosophers in general will seem like autistic fuckery in material form.
>>7802346
Most books in philosophy (including the Republic and probably any other book you can recommend) will have a great amount of depth to them.
Tao Te Ching does to, and the reader can return to it, but think of the average /lit/ NEET or wagecuck for a second, he probably has a lot to gain from a cursory reading too.
The surface of things conveys the essence of things.
Was never much into strictly philosophical books, but I own pic related. Should I read it?
>>7802355
I know I was just trying to start an argument
