My school unfortunately doesn’t teach neither philosophy nor logical reasoning,so what’s the best way to learn them on my own?
April 28th, 2010
What's the best way to learn philosophy and logical reasoning on my own?
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The best anthology doesn’t make you plot through each philosopher. When you do that, you get lost, bored, forgetting just why Aristotle disagreed with Plato, etc.
The best anthology is called the Great Ideas. It is Volumes II and III of a 60 book series, so it is only in libraries. It breaks philosophy into the 102 most-written-about topics, and each topic is only about 12 pages in length.
Angel; Animal; Aristocracy; Art; Astronomy; Beauty; Being; Cause; Chance; Change; Citizen; Constitution; Courage; Custom and Convention; Definition; Democracy; Desire; Dialectic; Duty; Education; Element; Emotion; Eternity; Evolution; Experience; Family; Fate; Form; God; Good and Evil; Government; Habit; Happiness; History; Honor; Hypothesis; Idea; Immortality; Induction; Infinity; Judgment; Justice; Knowledge; Labor; Language; Law; Liberty; Life and Death; Logic; Love; Man; Mathematics; Matter; Mechanics; Medicine; Memory and Imagination; Metaphysics; Mind; Monarchy; Nature; Necessity and Contingency; Oligarchy; One and Many; Opinion; Opposition; Philosophy; Physics; Pleasure and Pain; Poetry; Principle; Progress; Prophecy; Prudence; Punishment; Quality; Quantity; Reasoning; Relation; Religion; Revolution; Rhetoric; Same and Other; Science; Sense; Sign and Symbol; Sin; Slavery; Soul; Space; State; Temperance; Theology; Time; Truth; Tyranny; Universal and Particular; Virtue and Vice; War and Peace; Wealth; Will; Wisdom; World
So if you want to skip chapters, go right ahead. Read the ones that interest you. If a great writer wrote something about that topic it will be there, and if you want to know more, the notes at the ends of the chapters tell you where to look.
Also there are these two websites for beginners:
http://www.philosophypages.com/index.htm
http://www.importanceofphilosophy.com/