What books should a beginner read in philosophy?

The Best Philosophy Books for Beginners

• Plato: Five Dialogues by Plato.
• The Emperor’s New Mind by Roger Penrose.
• Mengzi: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries translated by Bryan W.
• Meno by Plato.
• Republic by Plato.
• Discourse on Method by Rene Descartes.
• Symposium by Plato.
• The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins.

Which book of Plato should I read first?

According to Iamblichus, for example, the First Alcibiades should be read first, then Gorgias, Phaedo, then Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, Phaedrus, Symposium, Philebus, and finally Timaeus and Parmenides.

Where do I start with philosophy?

I might suggest you start with one of the early Platonic dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Meno, or Phaedo. This will give you some idea of how philosophy began, what kind of discourse it deals in, and what purposes it was initially envisaged to serve. If you like these, read the Republic and others.

How do you become a beginner psychologist?

Take a psychology 101 class to learn the most basic material. If you want to take a class that offers the most general introduction to psychology, try to find a psychology 101 course. Courses with a 101 course number are usually designed for students with no prior education in the topic.

Should I read the introduction to the Republic?

You definitely want to get to reading his stuff for yourself eventually, but if you are beginning, I recommend starting with someone contemporary who can introduce things. Peter Kreeft has written very clear books introducing Socrates and Plato, and is also available in audiobook. I recommend him.

What Plato book should I read first?

Which Nietzsche book should I read first?

With Nietzsche, you could start with his first book, The Birth of Tragedy. This is both informative and readable (and short), and gives an insight into his entire project. Then you could cut to his late little books Ecce Homo and The Antichrist.

What do we learn from Plato’s dialogues?

Whoever reads the dialogues listed above will have quite a good understanding of how the Ancient Greek people, and specifically Plato thought of the world, nature, the cosmos, the soul as being.

What is the form of the good according to Plato?

Plato also believes that just as the sun causes things in the sensible world to exist and sustains them, so too does the Good cause the forms to be. Plato’s Form of the Good, then, is the ultimate principle of reality and truth and is the source of all order, harmony, beauty and intelligibility in the universe.

What are the two realms of reality according to Plato?

The Two World’s Theory lays the foundation for understanding the two realms of reality—the sensible world and the world of the forms—that are at the heart of Plato’s metaphsics. In Book 6 of the Republic, however, Plato goes one step further by dividing each of these realms into additional subdivisions: