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Please accept my apologies. I posted a couple of minutes ago and recommended a book of philosophical poetry by Dr. Muhammad Iqbal titled "Asrar - i- Khudi (The Secrets of Self)". I have rewritten this post and removed the link to the book because it feels to me that this work is too religious in content and it does not seem appropriate to present it here.
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That's an odd thing to say since all great philosophers have dealt with religion in one way or another.
I know this will start a row, but one should only take theistic philosophy seriously. Think about it: If the world is only material, then everything has a material explanation. Love, consciousness, compassion, morality, etc. are all chemical reactions that came about through adaptation. Politics, sociology? Who cares? There's no right way to live. Live the way that makes your time here happiest and try to influence your society to move in a direction that suits you. You like equality, be a socialist, You like competition, go with Rand. Morality? Nature doesn't care. It seems more productive to study science.
And, the Greek philosophers assumed a divine order. Assuming a natural law doesn't necessarily mean religious dogma either. It just means that there's a right way to think about ourselves, morality, society, etc. and a wrong way.
Again, I'm trying to be descriptive, not insulting so don't get too mad.
To keep on topic, I'm reading Aristotle's Politics.