markisfami
What 10 Philosophy books are your favorite? This can include plays and short stories such as Dostoyevski's "Dream of a Ridiculous Man".
I've read Sophie's world and it was good. I love Existentialism as well.
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I'm going to assume you want real philosophy books. Sophie's World, by the way, is a good intro, but it is only an introduction for students. Most of the books below are quite challenging to read.
Plato: the Republic
Plato: the Symposium
Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics
Marcus Aurelius: Meditations
Augustine: the Confessions
Descartes: Meditations
Hobbes: Leviathon
Hume: an Inquiry concerning Human Understanding
Kant: Critique of Pure Reason
Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit
Wittgenstein: philosophical Investigations
Rawls: a Theory of Justice
I'm going to assume you want real philosophy books. Sophie's World, by the way, is a good intro, but it is only an introduction for students. Most of the books below are quite challenging to read.
Plato: the Republic
Plato: the Symposium
Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics
Marcus Aurelius: Meditations
Augustine: the Confessions
Descartes: Meditations
Hobbes: Leviathon
Hume: an Inquiry concerning Human Understanding
Kant: Critique of Pure Reason
Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit
Wittgenstein: philosophical Investigations
Rawls: a Theory of Justice
Can someone give me a list of 10+ books you should not go your whole lifetime without reading?
eusuntanyn
What are 10+ very good books I should not go my whole life without reading. They can be about anything; Romance, Philosophy, History, Mystery, Anything really, but It just has to be a really good book that I should not miss out on.
No Twilight, or Harry Potter or books of that sort.
Also I would prefer if they were older books.
Answer
1. Moby Dick by Herman Melville (it's okay if you just skim the first thirty chapters or so on the history of whaling, but it is one amazing story and piece of writing.
2. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
3. Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
4. The complete works of Shakespeare (I know it's more than one book/ play, but they are so good and show us what it was like before the language got so butchered.)
5. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
6. Aztec by Gary Jennings
7. Both The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
8. Both 1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell
9. Both The Odyssey and the Illiad by Homer
10. The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
11. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
12. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
13. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
14. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
15. Great Expectations, Oliver Twist and Bleak House by Charles Dickens
16. Treasure Island by Robert Lewis Stevenson
17. Night by Elie Wiesel
18. Dracula by Bram Stoker
19. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
20. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
21. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
22. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
23. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
24. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
25. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
And even though it is far more contemporary...
26. The Stand by Stephen King
There are many, many more but I don't want to scare you off. If you get through this list, you will be more well read than at least 90% of the general population.
1. Moby Dick by Herman Melville (it's okay if you just skim the first thirty chapters or so on the history of whaling, but it is one amazing story and piece of writing.
2. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
3. Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
4. The complete works of Shakespeare (I know it's more than one book/ play, but they are so good and show us what it was like before the language got so butchered.)
5. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
6. Aztec by Gary Jennings
7. Both The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
8. Both 1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell
9. Both The Odyssey and the Illiad by Homer
10. The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
11. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
12. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
13. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
14. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
15. Great Expectations, Oliver Twist and Bleak House by Charles Dickens
16. Treasure Island by Robert Lewis Stevenson
17. Night by Elie Wiesel
18. Dracula by Bram Stoker
19. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
20. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
21. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
22. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
23. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
24. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
25. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
And even though it is far more contemporary...
26. The Stand by Stephen King
There are many, many more but I don't want to scare you off. If you get through this list, you will be more well read than at least 90% of the general population.
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