Anyone have opinions on this book? Looking to get a basic familiarity

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2016-06-25 17:36:48 Post No. 8206631
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Anonymous 2016-06-25 17:36:48 Post No. 8206631 [Report]

Anyone have opinions on this book? Looking to get a basic familiarity with the field before I dig deeper into individual philosophers and wondering if this is a decent place to start cause I'm not gonna read Copleston

Here's the table of contents:
1. Plato and Socrates: The Fire and the Sun
2. Aristotle: The Spirit of Rational Enquiry
3. Epicurus and Zeno: How to Lead a Good Life
4. St Thomas Aquinas: The Unified Interpretation of Reality
5. René Descartes: Systematic Doubt as Philosophical Method
6. John Locke and Montesquieu: The Liberal State
7. Benedict de Spinoza: Rigorous Thought and Severe Conclusions
8. David Hume: Empirical Verification
9. Immanuel Kant: The Critique of Reason
10. Karl Marx: The March of History
11. Friedrich Nietzsche: The Will to Power
12. Ludwig Wittgenstein: Language and Reality
13. Martin Heidegger: We Have Forgotten Being
14. Jean-Paul Sartre: Existentialist Anguish
15. Jacques Derrida: Deconstructing Reality

I have decent familiarity with chapters 1-5 but only very basic knowledge of the rest.

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Anonymous 2016-06-25 17:39:15 Post No.8206636
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Anonymous 2016-06-25 17:39:15 Post No.8206636 [Report]

>>8206631
>not gonna read Copleston

just leave then

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Anonymous 2016-06-25 18:14:20 Post No.8206726
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Anonymous 2016-06-25 18:14:20 Post No.8206726 [Report]

>>8206631
This book looks like ass. Just Patrician up and read Copleston, bitch.

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Anonymous 2016-06-25 18:19:57 Post No.8206741
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i heard this was pretty good also copleston

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Anonymous 2016-06-25 18:30:00 Post No.8206772
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Anonymous 2016-06-25 18:30:00 Post No.8206772 [Report]

>no hegel

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Anonymous 2016-06-25 18:37:43 Post No.8206794
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Anonymous 2016-06-25 18:37:43 Post No.8206794 [Report]

>>8206741
I've heard that was worse than Copleston

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Anonymous 2016-06-25 18:41:31 Post No.8206809
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Anonymous 2016-06-25 18:41:31 Post No.8206809 [Report]

Don't read this and don't read Russel's abomination. Anything else should be fine :)

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Topic Changer 2000 (ID: !!crHfsH7+pxy) 2016-06-25 18:41:58 Post No.8206810
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Topic Changer 2000 (ID: !!crHfsH7+pxy) 2016-06-25 18:41:58 Post No.8206810 [Report]

>>8206631
>reading is hard
>I won't read the standard text
>I won't even read a basic paperback unless I get detailed advice from strangers first

Sounds to me like you might benefit from some handholding in the form of a video podcast lecture series.

http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/general-philosophy

Just pretend you're an undergraduate student at Oxford studying philosophy and let this based Hume scholar hold your hand through history of philosophy - Greeks to the 20th century.

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Anonymous 2016-06-25 19:40:15 Post No.8206971
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Anonymous 2016-06-25 19:40:15 Post No.8206971 [Report]

>>8206794
how is copleston bad

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Anonymous 2016-06-25 22:15:04 Post No.8207344
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Anonymous 2016-06-25 22:15:04 Post No.8207344 [Report]

Can someone knowledgeable tell me if this is worth following?

>>>http://philosophy.lander.edu/intro/index.html

It's an Introduction to Philosophy class, with a syllabus and open-source readings. It's a few years old and some of the links 404 but it looks like there's some worthwhile content here.

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Anonymous 2016-06-26 00:19:59 Post No.8207678
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how's this one?

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Anonymous 2016-06-26 12:52:57 Post No.8209390
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Anonymous 2016-06-26 12:52:57 Post No.8209390 [Report]

>>8206809

why is russel bad