Studying Philosophy

[White]

Hey everyone. Now recently I have been really want to get into studying Philosophy but the problem is I don't know where to start? I know I want to study metaphysics but I don;t know what I should do to begin.

Should I study the great philosophers or should I study the history of philosophy???

And what are some good philosophers to start with???

thanks.

[PerpetualBurn]

Two recommendations I would give are The Wall by Jean Paul Sartre and The Last Days Of Socrates by Plato. They're just very enjoyable.

[White]

ya, im reading up on those two books now, they sound pretty good.

Anything else that would help?

[LittlePound]

Jesus has a wondeful philosophy about life. The gospels would be a good place to start.

[White]

Jesus has a wondeful philosophy about life. The gospels would be a good place to start.

Ya, I read the bible alot now i have only went from cover to cover once and then I just make my way throuh certain books. but yah, I am going to start reading it in more of a philosopical point of view now, thanks

[PerpetualBurn]

Jesus has a wondeful philosophy about life. The gospels would be a good place to start.

Hahahahahahahahahaha.

You crack me up.

[LittlePound]

i'm glad you are entertained by me PB though that is not the purpose of any of my posts.

[Knifeboy]

I nearly laughed out loud

[antiant]

are you into e-books? if you look on the net you can get a shyt load of philosophy books, i just recently got a HUGE list of "western philosophy e-books" for free i might add ;)

#Alex Catalogue of Philosophy
#Marxists.org collection of 183 papers by philosophers
'Questions' from the Handbook of Logic and Language.pdf
A.Companion.to.Philosophical.Logic.eBook-EEn.djvu
Aquinas, Thomas
Aristotle
Baader (et al) (ed.) - The Description Logic Handbook - Theory, Implementation and Applications (2003).pdf
Bacon,_Francis_-_The_Advancement_of_Learning.rar
Baudrillard, Jean
Berkeley, George
Blackburn, Simon - Think,_A_Compelling_Intro_To_Philosophy.ZIP
Bowles, Claire - Does Time Really Exist.TXT
Camus,_Albert-_An_Absurd_Reasoning_(HTML,_DOC).rar
Cantini, A. - On a Russellian Paradox about Propositions and Truth (pdf).pdf
Carnap - Philosophical Foundations of Physics.lit
Carroll, Lewis_-_The_Game_Of_Logic_[txt].rar
Chappell,_Robert_H._-_Anarchy_Revisited_-_An_Inquiry_Into_Th.zip
Chomsky, Noam
Claudio Altisen - Epistemologia [pdf].rar
Code_Of_Hammurabi_1780_Bc_[lit].lit.rar
Comte,_Auguste_-_Positive_Philosophy.pdf.rar
Confucius
Copeland, B. Jack - the genesis of possible world semantics.pdf
Creighton, James Edwin - An Introductory Logic (1908).pdf
Croce,_Benedetto_-_Aesthetic_as_Science_of_Expression_and_Ge.rar
Croce,_Benedetto_-_Aesthetic_As_Science_Of_Expression_And_General_Li nguistic.rar
d'Entreves, Maurizio Passerin - Foucault On Kant.pdf
Da Vinci, Leonardo - The Notebooks of.pdf
Dennett, Daniel
Descartes, Rene
Dewey,_John_-_Democracy_And_Education.pdf
de_certeau, michel - the_practice_of_everyday_life.txt
Dictionary_of_Ancient,_Medieval,_and_Modern_Freeth inkers.pdf.rar
dictionary_of_philosophical_terms_[tomeraider].zip
Dreyfus, Hubert
Eco,_Umberto_-_The_Island_Of_The_Day_Before_(rtf)_(v1.0).rar
ECO,_Umberto_-_The_Name_Of_The_Rose_[htm].zip
Einstein,_Albert_-_The_World_As_I_See_It_[txt].rar
Emerson, Ralph Waldo - 16 Writings.rar
Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Essays First Series.rar
Emerson,_Ralph_W_-_Essays_2nd_Series.zip
Epictetus - The Discourses.txt
Fodor, Jerry
Foucault, Michel
Frege, Gottlob
From Kant to Fichte (Cambridge Companion).pdf
Fuller, R. Buckminster
Fuller,_R._Buckminster_-_Education_Automation_[PDF].ace
Fuller,_R._Buckminster_-_Grunch_Of_Giants_[PDF].ace
Gerwen, Rob van - Kant & Aesthetic Excellence.txt
Giere, Ronald N. - Intensional Logic in Extensional Language.pdf
Goertzel,_Ben_-_Structure_of_Intelligence_-_A_New_Mathematic.pdf
Guizzardi, et al - On the General Ontological Foundations of Conceptual Modeling.pdf
Haugeland, John_-_mind_design_ii_--_philosophy,_psychology,_artificial intelligence.pdf
Hegel, G. W. F
Heidegger, Martin
Heisenberg, Werner - Physics and philosophy.pdf
Heylighn, Francis - Representation & Change.rar
Hobbes, Thomas
Hofstadter & Dennett - The Mind's I.zip
Hogan,_James_P_-_Mind,_Machines_and_Evolution.rar
Holbach, Volker - Tarskian and Kripkean truth.pdf
Honderich, Ted (ed.) - The Oxford Companion To Philosophy.pdf
Howes,_Ethel_Dench_Puffer_-_The_Psychology_of_Beauty_(PG).txt
Howson, Colin - A Logic of Induction.pdf
Hume, David
Huxley,_Prof._Thomas_Henry_-_Agnosticism.pdf
Icke,_David_-_I_am_me_I_am_free_-_The_Robots_Guide_to_Freedo.zip
J Van Bentham - Invariance and Definability - two faces of logical constants - in W. Sieg, R. Sommer, & C. Talcott, eds., ed.,.ps
J. Horty. Some direct theories of nonmonotonic inheritance. In Handbook of Logic in Artificial Intelligence and Logic Programming.ps
Jacques_Derrida_-_Adieu_[pdf].rar
Jacquette, Dale - A.Companion.to.Philosophical.Logic.eBook-EEn.djvu
James, William - The Principles of Psychology Vol. I (pdf).zip
Jaynes, E. T. - Probability Theory - The Logic Of Science.pdf
Kant, Immanuel
Kantorovich, Aharon - Philosophy of Science - From Justification to Explanation.pdf
Keynes,_John_Maynard_-_The_Economic_Consequences_of_the_Peac.pdf
Keynes,_John_Maynard_-_The_General_Theory_of_Employment,_Int.rar
Kierkegaard, Soren
Kripke, Saul
Kropotkin,_Peter_-_Anarchist_Morality.txt
Kropotkin,_Peter_-_Modern_Science_and_Anarchism.pdf
Leaman, Oliver - Key Concepts In Eastern Philosophy (txt).rar
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
Levi-Strauss, Claude - The Birth of Historical Societies (Hitchcock Lectures) October 3 & 4 1984.rm
Levinas, Emmanuel
Locke, John
M. ZAKHARYASCHEV, F. WOLTER, & A. CHAGROV - handbook of advanced modal logic.pdf
M.Friedman - Kant, Kuhn, and the Rationality of Science.pdf
Markus,_Eric_-_Vegan_The_New_Ethics_of_Eating_(pdf).zip
Martin_Luther_King_Jr_-_I_Have_A_Dream_[lit].rar
Marx, Karl
Maslow,_A_H_-_A_Theory_Of_Human_Motivation.pdf
McCabe, Joseph - Biographical_Dictionary_Of_Ancient,_Medieval,_And_ Modern_Freethinkers.pdf
McCarthy, John - artificial_intelligence_and_philosophy.pdf
McCarthy, John - PROGRAMS WITH COMMON SENSE.pdf
Meyer, Robert K. - Entailment.pdf
Monk, R [ed] - The Great Philosophers From Socrates to Turing.zip
Montaigne, Michel
Nietzsche, Friedrich
On A New List Of Categories - C S Peirce.html
Oneill, Onora - Trust (2002 BBC Reith Lectures).rm
onto-std_archive Principles of ontology.htm
Oxford University Press - Modal logic - Chagrov A., Zakharyaschev M. (1997)(600dpi)(610s).djvu
Oxford University Press - The Nature of Design - Ecology, Culture and Human Intention (2002).pdf
Palimieri,_A_-_ History_of_Nihilism.txt
Parnell, Karen & Mehta, Nick - programmable_logic_handbook.pdf
Pascal, Blaise
Peirce, Charles Sanders
Philosophy of Science (Collection of Quotes).doc
Pirsig,_Robert_-_Lila,_An_Inquiry_Into_Morals_[rtf].rar
Pirsig,_Robert_-_Zen_and_the_Art_of_Motorcycle_Maintenance.zip
Plato
Popper,_Karl_R._-_The_Open_Society_And_Its_Enemies_[htm].rar
Potter, Michael - Reason's Nearest Kin - Philosophies of Arithmetic from Kant to Carnap - Oxford Press - ISBN 019824041X.pdf
Quine, W. V. O
Rand, Ayn
Rawls, John - Lectures On The History Of Moral Philosophy.pdf
Reiser, Oliver - Problem of Time in Science and Philosophy.pdf
Rhys, Ernest (ed) - Everyman's Library - Philosophy & Theology (1926).pdf
Rosnay,_-_Joel_(Joël)_-_The_Macroscope_[htm].zip
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Mill on Utilitarianism.pdf
Russell, Bertrand
Salle, R.D. - Reconsidering Kant, Friedman, Logical Positivism & the Exact Sciences.pdf
Sartre, Jean Paul - Existentialism And Human Emotions [doc].rar
Schurz, Gerhard - Tarski and Carnap on Logical Truth - or What Is Genuine Logic.pdf
Searle, John R
Smarandache, Florentin - Neutrosophy.pdf
Spade_P.V._-_Introduction_to_Late_Mediaeval_Logic_and_Semant.p df
Spinoza, Benedict de
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.pdf
Sterling, Bruce_-_Artificial_Life_[txt].rar
The History Of Philosophy.pdf
The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.pdf
Thoreau,_Henry_David_-_Civil_Disobedience,_Walden_And_Other_.rar
Thoreau,_Henry_David_-_Life_Without_Principle.rar
Trout, J.D. = Scientific Explanation and the Sense of Understanding.pdf
Tse,_Chuang_-_Yutang, Lin (tran.) - _v1.0 (htm).ZIP
Turchin,_Valentin_-The_Phenomenon_Of_Science.rar
Turing, Alan - Computing Machinery and Intelligence.zip
Voltaire, Francois
Watts, Alan_-_Joyous_Cosmology_(txt).rar
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
#Alex Catalogue of Philosophy.rar
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epictetus-discourses-568.txt
epictetus-enchiridion-747.txt
epictetus-letter-748.txt
lucretius-on-395.txt
machiavelli-prince-123.txt
montaigne-essays-220.txt
bacon-essays-92.txt
bacon-new-98.txt
descartes-discourse-124.txt
descartes-meditations-746.txt
hobbes-leviathan-66.txt
locke-concerning-111.txt
locke-essay-113.txt
locke-letter-116.txt
locke-second-117.txt
pascal-pensees-569.txt
pascal-provincial-570.txt
spinoza-ethics-742.txt
spinoza-on-744.txt
spinoza-political-753.txt
spinoza-theologico-743.txt
berkeley-three-745.txt
berkeley-treatise-177.txt
hume-dialogues-732.txt
hume-enquiry-65.txt
hume-essays-733.txt
hume-letter-741.txt
hume-my-731.txt
hume-natural-730.txt
hume-of-734.txt
hume-of-735.txt
hume-of-736.txt
hume-of-737.txt
hume-of-738.txt
hume-of-739.txt
hume-of-740.txt
kant-critique-140.txt
kant-critique-141.txt
kant-critique-142.txt
kant-fundamental-143.txt
kant-introduction-144.txt
kant-metaphysical-145.txt
kant-prolegomena-752.txt
kant-science-146.txt
paine-american-397.txt
paine-common-398.txt
paine-rights-399.txt
rousseau-confessions-119.txt
voltaire-candide-193.txt
james-essays-136.txt
james-will-751.txt
leibniz-monadology-201.txt
marx-communist-109.txt
marx-manifesto-213.txt
mill-on-215.txt
mill-representative-216.txt
mill-subjection-217.txt
mill-utilitarianism-218.txt
nietzsche-thus-223.txt

[White]

ok folks, lets not turn this into a mocking of one anothers beliefes K? I too believe in God and NO i was not brought up as a christian, I didn't step foot into a church until about 2 years ago when i was 14 and that was with a friend of mine, and now this year I become baptised. (sorry I just ahd to state that so it would show you that I wasn't raised to beleive in God I made the choice on my own)

EDIT: Thanks for the list antiant, but how am I supposed to access them?

[antiant]

thoreau-civil-182.txt
thoreau-life-183.txt
thoreau-plea-184.txt
thoreau-slavery-185.txt
thoreau-walden-186.txt
freud-young-763.txt
plotinus-six-415.txt
epicurus-principal-749.txt
augustine-confessions-276.txt
aristotle-categories-79.txt
aristotle-history-78.txt
aristotle-metaphysics-77.txt
aristotle-meteorology-80.txt
aristotle-nicomachean-81.txt
aristotle-on-263.txt
aristotle-on-264.txt
aristotle-on-265.txt
aristotle-on-266.txt
aristotle-on-267.txt
aristotle-on-268.txt
aristotle-on-269.txt
aristotle-on-270.txt
aristotle-on-271.txt
aristotle-on-272.txt
aristotle-on-273.txt
aristotle-on-274.txt
aristotle-on-275.txt
aristotle-on-82.txt
aristotle-on-83.txt
aristotle-on-84.txt
aristotle-physics-88.txt
aristotle-poetics-87.txt
aristotle-politics-89.txt
aristotle-posterior-91.txt
aristotle-prior-90.txt
aristotle-rhetoric-86.txt
aristotle-topics-85.txt
plato-charmides-337.txt
plato-cratylus-338.txt
plato-critias-339.txt
plato-crito-340.txt
plato-euthydemus-341.txt
plato-euthyphro-342.txt
plato-gorgias-343.txt
plato-ion-344.txt
plato-laches-345.txt
plato-laws-346.txt
plato-lysis-347.txt
plato-meno-348.txt
plato-parmenides-349.txt
plato-phaedo-350.txt
plato-phaedrus-351.txt
plato-philebus-352.txt
plato-protagoras-353.txt
plato-republic-762.txt
plato-seventh-358.txt
plato-sophist-354.txt
plato-statesman-355.txt
plato-symposium-356.txt
plato-theaetetus-359.txt
plato-timaeus-360.txt
#All Marxists.org philosophy papers
Aquinas - Of God & His Creatures.pdf
Aquinas - On Being and Essence.pdf
Aquinas - Summa Theologica.pdf
Aristotle (29 writings).zip
Aristotle - Categories.txt
Aristotle - History Of Animals.txt
Aristotle - Metaphysics.txt
Aristotle - Meteorology.txt
Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics.txt
Aristotle - On Dreams.txt
Aristotle - On Generation And Corruption.txt
Aristotle - On Interpretation.txt
Aristotle - On Longevity And Shortness Of Life.txt
Aristotle - On Memory And Reminiscence.txt
Aristotle - On Prophesying By Dreams.txt
Aristotle - On Sense And The Sensible.txt
Aristotle - On Sleep And Sleeplessness.txt
Aristotle - On Sophistical Refutations.txt
Aristotle - On The Gait Of Animals.txt
Aristotle - On The Generation Of Animals.txt
Aristotle - On The Heavens.txt
Aristotle - On The Motion Of Animals.txt
Aristotle - On The Parts Of Animals.txt
Aristotle - On The Soul.txt
Aristotle - On Youth And Old Age, On Life And Death, On Breathing.txt
Aristotle - Physics.txt
Aristotle - Poetics.txt
Aristotle - Politics.txt
Aristotle - Posterior Analytics.txt
Aristotle - Prior Analytics.txt
Aristotle - Rhetoric.txt
Aristotle - The Athenian Constitution.txt
Aristotle - Topics.txt
Baudrillard, Jean - (interview) Continental Drift - New York Times.htm
Baudrillard, Jean - Radical Thought.txt
Baudrillard, Jean_-_13_Articles_(htm).zip
Baudrillard, Jean_-_Radical_Thought_[txt].rar
Baudrillard,_Jean_-_Simulations_[htm].rar
Berkeley, Principles of Human Knowledge.pdf
Berkeley, Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous.pdf
Chomsky, Noam - Chomsky On Anarchism_v1 (rtf).rar
Chomsky, Noam - Necessary_Illusions.pdf
Chomsky,_Noam_-_bibliography.rar
Chomsky,_Noam_-_Deterring_Democracy.rar
Chomsky,_Noam_-_Rethinking_Camelot._JFK,_the_Vietnam_War,_an.pdf
Chomsky,_Noam_-_{8_writings}_[CHM].rar
Chomsky_-_9-11.doc
Noam_Chomsky_Democracy_And_Education.pdf
Confucius - Analects.txt
Confucius - Doctorine of the Mean.txt
Confucius - Great Learning.txt
Dennett, Daniel (collection of short writings from his website).zip
Dennett, Daniel - Brainstorms.rar
Dennett, Daniel - kinds_of_minds - toward_an_understanding_of_consciousness.zip
Descartes, Rene - Meditations On First Philosophy.rar
Descartes,_Rene_-_Discourse_On_The_Method_Of_Rightly_Conducting_The _Reason.rar
Dreyfus.Hubert..Being And Power Heidegger And Foucault.rar
Dreyfus.Hubert..Heidegger And Foucault On The Subject, Agency And Practices .rar
Dreyfus.Hubert.L..Heidegger's Critique Of Husserl's (And Searle's) Account Of Intentionality.rar
Hubert Dreyfus - Kierkegaard On The Internet Anonymity Vrs Commitment In The Present Age.html
(ebook)(Philosophy of Mind) Jerry A. Fodor - Methodological Solipsism Considered as a Research Strategy in Cognitive Psychology.pdf
Fodor - Concepts - Where cognitive science went wrong.pdf
Fodor, Jerry - A Theory of Content and Other Essays.rar
Fodor, Jerry - The ELM & The Expert - Mentalese & Its Semantics.rar
Jerry A. Fodor - Modularity of Mind
Jerry A. Fodor - Psychosemantics

[antiant]

(ebook)(Philosophy of Mind) Jerry A. Fodor - Modularity of Mind-chap1.pdf
(ebook)(Philosophy of Mind) Jerry A. Fodor - Modularity of Mind-chap2.pdf
(ebook)(Philosophy of Mind) Jerry A. Fodor - Modularity of Mind-chap3.pdf
(ebook)(Philosophy of Mind) Jerry A. Fodor - Modularity of Mind-chap4.pdf
(ebook)(Philosophy of Mind) Jerry A. Fodor - Modularity of Mind-chap5.pdf
(ebook)(Philosophy of Mind) Jerry A. Fodor - Modularity of Mind-cover.jpg
(ebook)(Philosophy of Mind) Jerry A. Fodor - Modularity of Mind-notes.pdf
(ebook)(Philosophy of Mind) Jerry A. Fodor - Modularity of Mind-references.pdf
(ebook)(Philosophy of Mind) Jerry A. Fodor - Psychosemantics-appendix.pdf
(ebook)(Philosophy of Mind) Jerry A. Fodor - Psychosemantics-chap1.pdf
(ebook)(Philosophy of Mind) Jerry A. Fodor - Psychosemantics-chap2.pdf
(ebook)(Philosophy of Mind) Jerry A. Fodor - Psychosemantics-chap3.pdf
(ebook)(Philosophy of Mind) Jerry A. Fodor - Psychosemantics-chap4.pdf
(ebook)(Philosophy of Mind) Jerry A. Fodor - Psychosemantics-epilogue.pdf
(ebook)(Philosophy of Mind) Jerry A. Fodor - Psychosemantics-notes.pdf
(ebook)(Philosophy of Mind) Jerry A. Fodor - Psychosemantics-preface.pdf
(ebook)(Philosophy of Mind) Jerry A. Fodor - Psychosemantics-references.pdf
foucault - author function.doc
Foucault - Discourse and truth.pdf
Foucault Dictionary Project.htm
Foucault Michel De la guerre des races au racisme d'etat.pdf
Foucault, Michel (2002) Archaeology of knowledge - London;Routledge.doc
Foucault, Michel - (1926-1984).jpg
Foucault, Michel - Historical Discourse and Revolutionary Discourse.doc
Foucault, Michel - History of sexuality.pdf
Foucault, Michel - Madness and Civilization.pdf
Foucault, Michel - Nietzche, Genealogy, History.pdf
Foucault, Michel - Pedagogy And Blood.pdf
Foucault, Michel - Polemics, Politics and Problematizations.pdf
Foucault, Michel - The Order of Things - An Archaeology of the Human Sciences.pdf
Foucault, Michel - The Order Of Things.zip
Foucault, Michel - Truth, Power, Self.pdf
Foucault, Michel - What Is Enlightenment.pdf
Foucault, Michel - Words and things.doc
Foucault.Michel - Technologies Of The Self.rar
Michel Foucault - Le travail d'un intellectuel.txt
Michel Foucault - The Culture of the Self (UC Berkley Lectures-April.12.1983)
Michel Foucault - The Culture of the Self (UC Berkley Lectures-April.1983).nfo
Michel Foucault - The Culture of the Self (UC Berkley Lectures-April.1983).sfv
Frege, Gottlob - Sense and Reference.pdf
Frege, Gottlob - The Foundations of Arithmetic (1953) 2Ed; 7.0-2.5 LotB.pdf
Frege, Gottlob - Uber Sinn und Bedeutung.pdf
texts on Frege
Burge - Sinning against Frege.pdf
Burge, Tyler - Frege on Knowing the Third Realm.pdf
Mendelsohn, Richard - The Philosophy of Gottlob Frege (2005) Cambridge.pdf
Perry - Frege on Demonstratives.pdf
Ruffino M - Extensions As Representative Objects In Frege‘s Logic.pdf
Fuller,_R_Buckminster_(& Applewhite,_E_G)_=_Synergetics_[PDF.rar
Hegel,_G.W.F._-_Absolute_Spirit.pdf
Hegel,_G.W.F._-_Encyclopaedia_of_the_Philosophical_Sciences_Part_ One.pdf
Hegel,_G.W.F._-_Objective_Spirit.pdf
Hegel,_G.W.F._-_Philosophy_Of_History.pdf
Hegel,_G.W.F._-_Philosophy_Of_Mind.pdf
Hegel,_G.W.F._-_Philosophy_Of_Nature.pdf
Hegel,_G.W.F._-_Philosophy_Of_Right.pdf
Hegel,_G.W.F._-_Philosophy_Of_Spirit.pdf
Hegel,_G.W.F._-_Science_Of_Logic.pdf
Hegel,_G.W.F._-_The_Phenomenology_Of_Mind.pdf
Hegel,_GWF - Lectures on the History of Philosophy.rar
heidegger - The End of Philosophy and the Task of Thinking.htm
Heidegger Martin - What Is Metaphysics.rar
Heidegger, Martin - Being and Time
texts on Heidegger
The Basic Problems of Phenomenology.htm
Being and Time.pdf
Sein und Zeit.pdf
Varat och tiden del 1.pdf
Varat ochatiden del 2.pdf
Alweiss, Lilian - Heidegger On Time.pdf
Dwan, David - Heidegger On Ontology And Mass Communication.pdf
Mansbach, Abraham - Heidegger On Art.pdf
Thomson, Iain - Heidegger On Ontological Education.pdf
Wrathall, Mark - Heidegger On Plato.pdf
Hobbes, Thomas - Leviathan Part 1.pdf
Hobbes, Thomas - Leviathan Part 2.pdf
Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I, Part i.pdf
Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I, Part ii.pdf
Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I, Part iii.pdf
Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I, Part iv.pdf
Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.pdf
Hume, David - Essays on Suicide and the Immortality of the Soul.lit
Hume, David - Of Civil Liberty.lit
Hume, David - Of the Dinity or Meanness of Human Nature.lit
Hume, David - On Parties in General.lit
Hume, David - The Natural History of Religion.lit
Hume, David - The Problem of Induction.pdf
Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion.pdf
Hume,_David_-_Of_Essay_Writing.rar
Kant, Immanuel (9 writings).zip
Kant, Immanuel - Introduction to Metaphysics of Morals.txt
Kant, Immanuel - Metaphysical Elements Of Ethics.txt
Kant, Immanuel - Prolegomena_to_Any_Future_Metaphysics.txt
Kant, Immanuel - Science Of Right.txt
Kant, Immanuel - The Critique of Judgement.pdf
Kant, Immanuel - The Critique of Practical Reason.pdf
Kant, Immanuel - The Critique of Pure Reason.pdf
Kant, Immanuel - What Is Enlightenment.txt
Kierkegaard - Fear And Trembling.rtf
Kierkegaard Soren - Purity Of Heart Is To Will One Thing.zip
Kierkegaard Sören - The Sickness Unto Death.philosophy.pdf
Kierkegaard, Selected Writings.pdf
Kierkegaard, Soren - Selections From [txt].rar
Kierkegaard.To my Father.doc
Søren Kierkegaard - The Present Moment.pdf
[philosophy] Soren Kierkegaard - Preparation for a Christian Life.pdf
Kripke S. - A Completeness Theorem in Modal Logic.pdf
Leibniz - Discourse on Metaphysics.pdf
Leibniz - Meditations on Knowledge, Truth, and Ideas.pdf
Leibniz - On Nature Itself.pdf
Leibniz,_Gottfried_Wilhelm_-_Discourse_On_Metaphysics_Correspondence [lit].zip
Leibniz,_Gottfried_Wilhelm_-_Monadology.rar
Levinas, Emmanuel - Martin_Heidegger_and_Ontology.rar
Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book I.pdf
Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book II.pdf
Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book III.pdf
Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book IV.pdf
Marx,_Karl_-_Civil_War_In_France_[pdf].rar
Marx,_Karl_-_Communist_Manifesto_[doc].rar
Marx,_Karl_-_Critique_of_Hegel's_Philosophy_of_Right(1843-44.rar
Marx,_Karl_-_Das_Kapital_[pdf].rar
Montaigne - Essays.txt
Nietszche,_Friedrich_-_Beyond_Good_&_Evil_[txt].RAR
Nietszche,_Friedrich_-_On_Truth_And_Lies_In_A_Nonmoral_Sense.rar
Nietszche,_Friedrich_-_The_Antichrist_[html].rar
Nietszche,_Friedrich_-_The_Use_And_Abuse_Of_History_[rtf].rar
Nietszche,_Friedrich_-_Thoughts_Out_Of_Season_Part_01_[html].rar
Nietszche,_Friedrich_-_Thus_Spake_Zarathustra_[doc].rar
Nietzsche,_Friedrich_-_Twilight_(htm).zip
Pascal, Blaise - Pensées.txt
Pascal, Blaise - Provincial Letters.txt
Collected Papers Of Charles Peirce Intelex Past Masters Series Pqm Egg Balfour.iso
How to Make our Ideas Clear.htm
How to Make our Ideas Clear_files
Peirce, Charles Sanders - What Is a Sign.rar
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[antiant]

Quine - On Natural Deduction.pdf
quine - On the Theory of Types - JSL 1938.pdf
quine - Predicate Functors Revisited - JSL 1981.pdf
Quine - Toward a Calculus of Concepts.pdf
Quine - Two Dogmas of Empiricism.doc
Quine - Unification of Universes in Set-Theory.pdf
Quine W V - Ontology And Ideology Revisited.pdf
Quine W.V. - On the Theory of Types.pdf
Quine W.V. - Ontological Reduction and the World of Numbers.pdf
Quine W.V. - Posits and Reality.pdf
Quine W.V. - Russell's Ontological Development.pdf
Quine, Willard - The Verification Theory and Reductionism.zip
Quine.Willard.Van.Orman..Analyticity and transcendence.rar
Quine_W_V_O_From_A_Logical_Viewpoint.rar
texts on Quine
Becker, K. - Understanding Quine's Famous Statement.pdf
Berger, Alan - (1980) Quine on Alternative Logics and Verdict Tables.rar
Ernest Lepore & Barry C. Smith (eds) - quine on indeterminacy.pdf
Kovac, Srecko - On Quine's Platonism.rar
QUINE ON LOGIC.htm
Raatikainen, Panu - Quine As A Verificationist.pdf
Rand, Ayn, The_Virtue_Of_Selfishness.ZIP
Rand,_Ayn_-_For_The_New_Intellectual(HTM).ZIP
Rousseau - Confessions.txt
Bertrand Russell - A History of Western Philosophy.pdf
Bertrand Russell - Knowledge And Wisdom.pdf
Bertrand Russell - The Bomb and Civilization.pdf
Russell, Bertrand - A Free Man's Worship.txt
Russell, Bertrand - Abcs Of Relativity [pdf].zip
Russell, Bertrand - Collected Works and Essays.rar
Russell, Bertrand - Collection 1.pdf
Russell, Bertrand - Desire.wav
Russell, Bertrand - Education And Discipline.pdf
Russell, Bertrand - Essays By Bertrand Russell-v0.0.txt.zip
Russell, Bertrand - Has Religion Made Useful Contributions To Civilization.rar
Russell, Bertrand - Icarus, Or The Future Of Science [lit].rar
Russell, Bertrand - Ideas That Have Helped Mankind.rar
Russell, Bertrand - In Praise Of Idleness.rar
Russell, Bertrand - On Denoting-1905.txt.rar
Russell, Bertrand - On The Value Of Scepticism.pdf
Russell, Bertrand - On.Modern.Uncertainty.rar
Russell, Bertrand - Philosophical Consequences Of Relativity.pdf
Russell, Bertrand - Philosophy For Laymen.pdf
Russell, Bertrand - Political Ideals.txt
Russell, Bertrand - Proposed Roads To Freedom (txt).rar
Russell, Bertrand - Science And Ethics.pdf
Russell, Bertrand - Social Cohesion & Human Nature (1948 BBC).rm
Russell, Bertrand - The Analysis Of Mind [txt].rar
Russell, Bertrand - The Divorce Between Science And Culture.pdf
Russell, Bertrand - The Metaphysician's Nightmare.pdf
Russell, Bertrand - The Philosophical Importance Of Mathematical Logic.pdf
Russell, Bertrand - The Philosophy Of Logical Analysis.pdf
Russell, Bertrand - The Problems Of Philosophy.pdf
Russell, Bertrand - The Russell-Einstein Manifesto (doc).rar
Russell, Bertrand - Vagueness.pdf
Russell, Bertrand - What Is The Soul.txt
Russell, Bertrand - Why I Am A Rationalist.pdf
Russell, Bertrand - Why I Am Not A Christian.zip
Consciousness - John Searle.doc
Searle, John - Future of philosophy.rtf
Searle, John R. - Rationality in Action.zip
Spinoza, Benedict De - A Theologico-Political Treatise 02.txt.rar
Spinoza, Benedict de - The Ethics 1. Concerning God.pdf
Spinoza, Benedict de - The Ethics 2. Of the Nature and Origin of the Mind.pdf
Spinoza, Benedict de - The Ethics 3. On the Origin and Nature of the Emotions.pdf
Spinoza, Benedict de - The Ethics 4. Of Human Bondage or the Strength of the Emotions.pdf
Spinoza, Benedict de - The Ethics 5. On the Power of the Understaing, or of Human Freedom.pdf
Spinoza, Benedict De -_A_Theologico-Political_Treatise_01_[pdf].rar
Spinoza, Benedict De -_Treatise_On_The_Emendation_Of_The_Intellect.rar
SPINOZA,_Benedict_de -_A_Theologico-Political_Treatise[txt].rar
Spinoza,_Benedict_de -_Essays.rar
Voltaire - Letters on England.pdf
Voltaire,_Francois_-_Free_Will_-_[Pdf].rar
Voltaire_-_Micromegas.RAR
Voltaire_-_Plato's_Dream.RAR
Voltaire_Candide.txt
texts on Wittgenstein
Wittgenstein's Nachlass (150 manuscripts, typescripts and dictations).iso
Wittgenstein, Ludwig - A Lecture on Ethics.pdf
Wittgenstein, Ludwig - Collected Works Tagebuecher [E-book] ISO.zip
Wittgenstein, Ludwig - Lectures_on_Philosophy(1932-33).rtf
Wittgenstein, Ludwig - Philisophical Investigation.rar
Wittgenstein, Ludwig - Philosophical Investigations.pdf
Wittgenstein, Ludwig - Tractatus logico-philosophicus (pdf).zip
Wittgenstein, Ludwig - Zettel.pdf
Wittgenstein,_Ludwig - tractatus logico-philosophicus [SPANISH].zip
Bloor, D. (1997) - Wittgenstein, Rules and Institutions - (London - Routledge).pdf
Chihara, Charles - Wittgenstein's Analysis Of The Paradoxes In His Lectures On The Foundations Of Mathematics.pdf
Cowan, Joseph - Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Logic.pdf
Gruender, David - Wittgenstein on Explanation and Description.pdf
Kreisel, G. - Wittgenstein's Theory and Practice of Philosophy.pdf
Temkin, Jack - Wittgenstein on Epistemic Privacy.pdf

ahhhh i love philosophy, knowledge, wisdom, thinking etc :) enjoy! take a look at some titles, you may be interested

[drewhet]

does baptist mean that you only go to heaven if you get baptised? that's what a friend of mine said, but i'm not sure what denomination of christianity he is

[antiant]

oh...do a "search" ;)

[LittlePound]

that's false...(to drewhet)
and antiant, was it really necesarry for you to post every single one individually. Couldn't you have just given him the info on how to get them himself?

[Lufnoops]

I have a western philosophy e-book pack I could upload if you want it.

[Reaganista]

baptists don't baptize infants
they wait until you can understand what's going on

but they say all you need is belief in christ to go to heaven

[PerpetualBurn]

I wasn't raised to beleive in God I made the choice on my own

That's even worse.

[antiant]

littlepound, he/she asked i helped...trust me, if you want something bad enough, you'll find a way to get it, such as i, also it shows a list of things that is out there, that he/she might not of thought was out there (ie: of interest)...until then, goodbye

[drewhet]

that's false...(to drewhet)


See, thats my point. on one hand i have someon telling me to be christian and to get baptised or else i go to hell and on the other i have people telling me to be christian, but do not have to get baptised. So what do i do? Get baptised just to be safe? It's conflicting views on christianity like this that push me away.

[antiant]

it's called Pascal's Wager...

[LittlePound]

(to drewhet)just look in the bible. No where does it say you have to be baptised. It does say "however" that:
9that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;
in Romans Chapter 10.

for any further discussion this should be moved to Christianity thread so his thread isn't ruined.

[White]

Lufnoops, please do upload it, it would be of tremendous help to me.

Antiant, Thanks for all the resources I should be able to use this alot to my advantage

Perpetual, lets keep the making fun of beleifes out of here please?

And Littlepound is absolutely right in his last post, you do not have to be baptised to go to heaven, baptismal is really just publicly proclaiming you beleive in God through a certain religion.

[drewhet]

why should i beleive you over my friend? he's probably more devout to his religion than you are.

[antiant]

heh, this has already went off topic, not suprising...no problem for the help

[PerpetualBurn]

it's called Pascal's Wager...

Pascal's wager is one of the stupidest pieces of philosophy I've ever had the displeasure of reading.

[antiant]

Pascal's wager is one of the stupidest pieces of philosophy I've ever had the displeasure of reading.
i agree, but that should be discussed elsewhere ;)

[PerpetualBurn]

Perpetual, lets keep the making fun of beleifes out of here please?


I'm not making fun of anything.

If you'd had Christianity forced on you then maybe I could forgive you for being brainwashed, but if you somehow decided you should believe in God then you failed at logic.

[LittlePound]

drewhet i moved the conversation into the christianity thread, feel free to continue it there.

[White]

why should i beleive you over my friend? he's probably more devout to his religion than you are.

then beleive your friend, no one is forcing you to believe us, but we are saying, NO YOU DON"T HAVE TO BE BAPTIZED look it up on the internet. or better yet, read the bible itself.

[bleep_bloop]

Jesus has a wondeful philosophy about life. The gospels would be a good place to start.

Lol. Christians.

[White]

OKAY PPL! LETS STAY ON TOPIC HERE! please!

[LittlePound]

though i am a christian, you don't have to be a christian to respect the philosophy of non violence. Jesus preached that. You dont' have to be a christian to respect the philosophy of being selfless and loving others more than yourself. Jesus preached that too.
In fact....people like Martin Luther King Jr and Gandhi follow a lot of principles that were laid down by Jesus and we respect them...

edit: sorry white, I'm done now.

[bleep_bloop]

Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche is pretty good, but I dont really like how its written.

[bleep_bloop]

though i am a christian, you don't have to be a christian to respect the philosophy of non violence. Jesus preached that. You dont' have to be a christian to respect the philosophy of being selfless and loving others more than yourself. Jesus preached that too.
In fact....people like Martin Luther King Jr and Gandhi follow a lot of principles that were laid down by Jesus and we respect them...

edit: sorry white, I'm done now.

But all those people weren't philosophers, they were preachers and leaders. They took ideals put forth by philosophers and attemped to make them practical.

[RockAndRoll]

Read wisdom of the west by Bertrand Russel. It follows western philosophy from the pre-socratics to Russel himself and his contemporaries. If you're looking to getting into some philosophy I highly reccomend reading this book.

[italic zero]

Primary sources are usually preferable. Last Days of Socrates is a good starting point, then move on to The Republic (you can probably find books with both together). Aristotle's Organon is a good next step. You can go deeper into Greeks if you want but those are the big three. If you're interested in very Christian philosophy, read some Aquinas. Otherwise you can pretty much skip a few hundred years to Descartes, most importantly Meditations on First Philosophy. Then to John Locke's An Essay on Human Understanding, then Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature, then Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, then Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, then Kierkegaard's Either/Or (not to be confused by the wonderful album of the same name), then Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, then Sartre's Existentialism is a Humanism, then Camus's The Stranger (for fun), then Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations.

That's a pretty broad overview of western thought; eastern philosophy is important, but has less defined works to study from.

There are also some important political philosophers I didn't include, such as Rousseau, Leo Strauss, and Machiavelli.

[stevensonmat2]

Sun Tzu, his teachings are some of the most applicable to real life when in any sort of competetive enviroment that i've read.

[italic zero]

or if you want to wage a war in ancient china

[stevensonmat2]

Haha yeah that too, but the ideas from the art of war are timeless and can be used by anyone for anything.

[italic zero]

I'm just saying I'm sure there's a movie where Chris Rock gets transported to ancient China and has to lead an army to unify the country and it would have helped if he'd read the book.

[stevensonmat2]

haha I would like to see that movie very much. I agree with you completley.

[White]

Primary sources are usually preferable. Last Days of Socrates is a good starting point, then move on to The Republic (you can probably find books with both together). Aristotle's Organon is a good next step. You can go deeper into Greeks if you want but those are the big three. If you're interested in very Christian philosophy, read some Aquinas. Otherwise you can pretty much skip a few hundred years to Descartes, most importantly Meditations on First Philosophy. Then to John Locke's An Essay on Human Understanding, then Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature, then Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, then Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, then Kierkegaard's Either/Or (not to be confused by the wonderful album of the same name), then Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, then Sartre's Existentialism is a Humanism, then Camus's The Stranger (for fun), then Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations.

That's a pretty broad overview of western thought; eastern philosophy is important, but has less defined works to study from.

There are also some important political philosophers I didn't include, such as Rousseau, Leo Strauss, and Machiavelli.

Thanks, I will definately try those, and Ya I'm a large fan of Rousseau and Locke, (those two I ahve studied in school and I was wicked into it)

[Smokey D]

How can you be a fan of Rousseau and Locke. Their philosophies are pretty much contradictory.

[stevensonmat2]

Someone can appreciate two opinions on one issue.

[RockAndRoll]

As for actual philosopher's writings I would say that the dialogues are a must, I'd suggest just finding a compilation and reading through them.

[Futue te Ipsum]

I nearly laughed out loudsame with me. A bit of pee was dying to come out.

[VomitStainedCretin]

My experience of philosophical texts: Descartes is good for the first couple of Meditations when he's throwing out all his old beliefs. Then he tries to prove God (and fails). Nietzche's Beyong Good & Evil= the rambling of an aristocracy worshipper suffering from syphilis.

[lfantwister]

Sophie's World is a good overview and personally I always like a bit of Kant and Schopenhauer. Kant is trippy (he says we see the world through the lenses of space and time) so if you like any modernist art (since they usually **** around with time) you'll probably like him.

[White]

How can you be a fan of Rousseau and Locke. Their philosophies are pretty much contradictory.

Because I find they were both amazingly smart people.

Someone can appreciate two opinions on one issue.

See?

[peeted]

start with either some simple introduction to philosophy (or sophies world) and read up more on the people who take your fancey. either that or start on some plato (i sugest the republic) and then continue through history reading up on key philosophers.
or you could just brows wikipedia and buy books by/about the people who make the most sense to you.

[dustindow]

I just recently watched "What the Bleep Do we Know?"...I think that could be good source of a more scientifical type of philosophy.

[Auberge le Mouton Noir]

i'm glad you are entertained by me PB though that is not the purpose of any of my posts.

in that case maybe posting isn't for you


Jesus was philosophically dull

[Lydisk]

dudes upload the .rar's

[stevensonmat2]

in that case maybe posting isn't for you


Jesus was philosophically dull

seriously. saying people should be good to one another is a pretty generic philosophy.

[MyShrimpDied]

I don't know much about philosophy, but it seems to me that there are much better places to study it then the Bible for ****s sake.

[666Ozzfan]

Jesus has a wondeful philosophy about life. The gospels would be a good place to start.

Is it possible at all for you to leave christianity out of other threads, other than the Christianity thread? It's seriously becoming rather annoying

EDIT: sorry guys. I saw that post and just replied right away.
/scuttles off to a different thread

[slack]

Will Durant has a book called "The Story of Philosophy" that gives a good overview. I haven't read it all myself, but I've read a couple books out of the Story of Civilization series and I like his writing style. He does a good job writing about dry subjects without becoming incredibly dull.

[RockAndRoll]

I just recently watched "What the Bleep Do we Know?"...I think that could be good source of a more scientifical type of philosophy.*

*Pseudoscientific bullshit.

[ITRIEDVOODOOONCE]

though a novel, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maitenence has great philosophy.

[Auberge le Mouton Noir]

though a novel, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maitenence has great philosophy.

It's a heavy read though. The narrative parts are a relief for your brain after a 10 page exploration of gumption.

[antiant]

http://virtualschool.edu/mon/Quality/PirsigZen/ = Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

[Auberge le Mouton Noir]

you can't read that book online, your eyes'd die or something

[antiant]

of course you can! some ppl can read online, some can't, all depends, you could also break it up and read here and there or even print it out (parts of it here and there) etc

[Scythe404]

Hahahahahahahahahaha.

You crack me up.

Well, like it or not, it's a philosophy that's influenced 2000 years of both institutional and personal spiritual religious beliefs. And some secular ones too. It's not a stretch to say that Jesus is likely the most influential man to have ever lived when considering Western Society as it is now, and whether or not you believe in their divinity, the gospels make a great, if contrived and sometimes talky read (at least some of the more blunt english translatoins), especially for those interested in different philosophies.

[nowhesingsnowhesobs]

there's a difference between philosophy the subject proper and some person's hazy personal philosophy.

It's not a stretch to say that Jesus is likely the most influential man to have ever lived when considering Western Society as it is now,
Well, no. That rests on the assumption that the teachings contained in the NT are directly from the mouth of Jesus himself and that he was the most important factor in the spread of the early church.

And an ignorance of the influence of classical thought throughout history.