I have been thinking of learning Philosophy without going to a college or enrolling in Philosophy courses for some time now. Philosophy is such a vast topic that the biggest trouble for me was to figure out where to start, what are the major areas of Philosophy that I should focus on, and how to go about it within the limited time I have. Apart from my spiritual quest, I was very intrigued by Jordan B Peterson's mentions of Friedrich Nietzsche in one of the best books I have ever read 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos.
First I went for identifying major branches of Philosophy to explore. Those are -
- Metaphysics - ultimate nature of reality
- Epistemology - what we know and how we come to know it
- Axiology - study of principles and values which is further divided into two major kinds
- Ethics - the study of morality
- Aesthetics - inquiry about art and beauty
- Logic - the structure of arguments
- Ontology - knowing the reality
- Political Philosophy - deals with government, justice, and so on
- Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
- Poetics by Aristotle
- The Republic by Plato
- Meditations by Rene Descartes
- A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
- An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
- Candide by Voltaire
- The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
- Thinking: Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (read it earlier but will read again)
- The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell
- The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
- Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E Frankl
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Incoherence of the Philosophers by Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali
- The Incoherence of the Incoherence by Ibn Rush (Averroes)
- The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History - The Abridged Edition by Ibn Khaldun
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M Pirsig
- The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky
- Free Will by Sam Harris
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