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Originally Posted by PsychiatricCase
Also, I would like to know if there is any very good introductory philosophy texts to build a knowledge on the subject. Thanks.
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I highly recommend
The Big Questions: Philosophy by Simon Blackburn. Rather then dealing with philosophy through history of philosophy, it deals with most common questions of philosophy and tries to answer them in a very simple way. This is great for first time students of philosophy or for anybody interested in the matter.
http://www.amazon.com/Big-Questions-...dp/B00LSX4NB0/
Just so you can get a perception of what kinda book it is, here are the names of the 20 questions i.e the chapters:
- What is the meaning of life?
- Am I free?
- Why is there something and not nothing?
- What do we really know?
- Is there such a thing as society?
- Can machines think?
- What is time?
- How can I deceive myself?
- Why be good?
- What fills up space?
- Can we truly understand each other?
- Why do things keep on keeping on?
- Are we rational?
- What am I?
- What are my rights?
- Is truth relative?
- Do we need God?
- What is human nature?
- What is beauty?
- Is death to be feared?