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Found 7 comments on From Socrates to Sartre: The Philosophic Quest:

u/poor_yoricks_skull · 6 pointsr/askphilosophy

It sounds like you are interested in learning more about various philosophers and their ideas, but don't really have a good starting point right now.

This isn't really the place to conduct an entire overview of the history of philosophic thought, because we could get lost in the weeds very quickly.

But, I have found this book to be a very accessible starting point to introduce the history of philosophy. I would recommend reading it (or another overview style book like it). I bet you will find at least one philosophic idea in the book that makes you think "Yeah man, I've thought this before!" and that would be a great starting place for a deeper dive.

u/hypnostic · 4 pointsr/AcademicPhilosophy

I'm honestly not sure how relevant this is going to be, but I took a Philosophy course in college just last semester for this exact reason (to get the "essentials"). I guess the "right" place to start would be with the ancient philosophers and see which ideas you like and then look for those similar ideas in later philosophers. As I find that sometimes the later philosophers either prove, disprove, or add something to the original ideas. Not that there's anything wrong with original ideas but it's pretty interesting watching the evolution and gives a good idea where it originated.

The text we used was: Questions that matter The only thing I really got out of this text was an introduction to Descartes. I am enthralled by the mind-body duality that he proposed.

This book was my initial exposure to philosophy when I was a teenager. I probably need to read it again as it has been quite a while.

I have also found wikipedia to be a very good source for looking up different schools of philosophy. Like, for example you want something on Existentialism. I would also recommend the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

u/JaredOfTheWoods · 2 pointsr/books

From Socrates to Sartre: A Philosophic Quest Its a pretty good starting point. Its basically just an overview of major philosophers. Also for some fiction try Genesis by Bernard Beckett. Its a pretty easy read and deals with what it means to be human.

u/Sideroller · 2 pointsr/ChapoTrapHouse

I found this to be a decent resource that goes into much of what Marx covers in his book Capital:
https://kapitalism101.wordpress.com/law-of-value-the-series/

If you want a more general philosophical overview I recommend From Socrates to Sartre and reading the sections on Hegel and then Marx. A lot of the basis for dialectical materialism and Marx's thought is off the back of Hegel.

u/C_M_Burns · 2 pointsr/philosophy

I know I'm tardy to the party, but I found that it's best to start with general surveys of philosophy, so you're exposed to a wide range of thought, then narrowing down your interests.

Personally, I found the following to be the most helpful:

From Socrates to Sartre: The Philosophic Quest

Think

What Does It All Mean?

The Problems of Philosophy

u/xonoph · 1 pointr/philosophy

I recommend the Wadsworth website. This link is to their timeline series:
http://www.wadsworth.com/philosophy_d/special_features/timeline/timeline.html
They also have by topic and by philosopher.
Another good website, mentioned by others, is Squashed Philosophers, but it has a different purpose (to skim original works).

If you prefer audiobooks, there's a good lecture series, Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition:
http://www.teach12.com/ttcx/coursedesclong2.aspx?cid=470
You probably don't need the whole 84 lectures, just a few of the bigger names like Plato, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Hegel, and Wittgenstein will give you a solid foundation.

For books, Philosophy Made Simple is a solid entry level intro,
http://www.amazon.ca/Philosophy-Made-Simple-Richard-Popkin/dp/0385425333

I also like from Socrates to Satre
http://www.amazon.com/Socrates-Sartre-Philosophic-Quest/dp/0553251619
Which goes in for just a few big names, and has a companion tv show.

There's no definitive anything, and probably better than these that I'm not aware of, but a good approach is to graze a little from a few different introductory books, aiming to familiarise yourself with terms and names - and then graze again to get a slightly deeper insight into how they connect etc.

u/Ascythopicism · 1 pointr/philosophy

From Socrates to Sartre gives a pretty good overview. Yes, there are many gaps, but by the end of the book you should have a pretty good framework that you can work off of.