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At the Existentialist Cafe by Sarah Bakewell is one of the best intro philosophy books I have read and listened to. Sarthe, Beauvoir, Camus, Heidegger, Husseal and others . Really insightful.
Great video, I’ll definitely have to pick up some of these books. I’m currently in high school but I am pursuing philosophy on my own. Question, when you annotate in your books, what do you underline, and what do you highlight? Do you like to use both interchangeably or do you have different reasons for using them?
📚 I am having a difficult time looking at my current stack of Philosophy Introductions and Overviews. I feel like I want to add to the stack 😂. Thanks for the video and the great list.
As a mere common lawyer, I am partial to legal philosophy, and I must admit I enjoy the work of Lon Fuller. His most well known work is The Morality of Law, but his shorter works, one introductory, The Anatomy of Law, is really great and so is his short work, The Law In Quest Of Itself. I can recommend those two.
@@ParkerNotesThe Meno and the Crito of Plato are supposedly good starting points for what later became jurisprudence. I haven’t gotten to them yet, but I know I need to. The contemporary debate in jurisprudence can start with HLA Hart and Lon Fuller. I read a lot in political philosophy in undergrad but now prefer to ponder the questions asked in legal philosophy.
Almost added it. It's in my philosophy book list on my Amazon Storefront but I figured so many other people included it in theirs that I wanted to introduce other less known books. Maybe I should've included it anyways though
Dude, as a security engineer passionate about philosophy, you're doing a HUGE favor curating these books. I love recommendations and will try at least five of these 11 books. Thank you so much. 📚
broo u dont know how much i want to sit for like an hour and talk with in any subject u should make like a podcast where u host a fan or smthg like that
📚Fantastic vid! Can’t wait to start with some of these, Why by Philip Goff sounds very intriguing… will definitely check out your other lists, & thanks for going through the chapters, gives good overview! 😊
When i started watching your channel there was a video you speaking about a note book were you write proverbs i started doing the same thing i now read the whole bible i fell in love with Jesus and he did i give my life to Jesus but i dont go with christian pronoun i go as a slave of christ thank you so much
Great video📚. Peter Kreeft literally came out with a four-volume introduction to philosophy called _Socrates' Children_ and I'd be interested to know what your thoughts are on it?
📚📚📚📚 Psychologist here: really enjoyed this video and fell down an interesting rabbit hole investigating how you define, describe or measure objective reality without viewing it through a subjective lens? Without a subject to experience something, how do we know it exists? I am intrigued as to how this compares with a social constructionist viewpoint, where all reality is constructed in relation - between people - and is therefore solely subjective, surely? Ok, you’ve hooked me! Great video - guess I need to do some reading 😈
📚Digging back into sociology and looking forward to adding a few philosophy texts to the mix as well. I feel like they would compliment each other pretty well. Thanks for the list!
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📚The one book from my college reading assignments that stood out to me is Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig I thought it was a good read if others are looking for a recommendation
There are lots of female philosophers. Descartes best student was Elizabeth of Bohemia and she gave him some good pushback in their correspondence which you can find in some editions of the meditations. Many of the female philosophers I know write in a way that's indistinguishable from their male counterparts. Maybe try feminist philosophers?
@@ParkerNotes ah! Maybe 🤔 feminists could be interesting as long as they don't have a 'I hate men, and will burn my bra' vibe about them...that's not me 😗. I'll Google Elizabeth from Bohomia and see what comes up. I'm interested in Michael Huemer's work too. Thanks for responding.
📚 Reminded me of the joy of reading to engage with the author's thoughts, and not just to absorb information. Also, contents pages are really intriguing, and journals, notebooks, and fountain pens are life...✊🤣
It would've been ironic or at least unfitting if Parker's Pensees did not include Pascal's Pensees, but thankfully that was not the case, and so I come to have the deepest cognitive rest actualized in this book list. 😊
So many philosophy books and so little time at 78. I look for the shorter books and enjoyable to read ones. I was a philosophy major but I dropped out. Good list. Unfortunately,t he philosophy section at my B & N is only one section (religion has ten times as much) and the library isn’t well-stocked either.
I’ve recently become curious about philosophy and deep thinking. I find most if not all of my thoughts reach no conclusions. Is this a problem just I have or do you or anybody regularly reach a conclusions to thoughts/ questions? Also I have been reading through “What’s your world view” and find myself reaching world views that I do not agree with by answering the questions asked. Do you also find that you don’t identify with a single world view?
📚 I've read Penses by Pascal. Good stuff! I'm more into European and Chinese philosophy, but I'd like to delve into American analytical philosophy at some point.
Thank you so much Parker for curating these books for us. I am a church pastor who wants to dive deep into learning both philosophy and ethics. This video is giving me a good list to start with. I have also listened to your other videos on keeping journals of proverbs and other techniques to stop mindless scrolling. Love it! Thank you so much.
This is great to hear! So glad you're benefiting from my stuff! You may also like my podcast, Parker's Pensées, where I talk philosophy and theology with some of the world's best
When you were talking about axiology towards the beginning of the video, my 5 y/o son wanted me to let you know you forgot that axiology deals with not just values such as beautiful and ugly, but also "cool, you can't forget cool".
Re Descartes "“There is a famous dictum of a western philosopher, Rene Descartes: COGITO ERGO SUM - I think, therefore I am. This is absurd: I THINK. therefore I am? It shows that thinking is primary and being is secondary - I think, therefore I am. Thinking is secondary. being is first. First you are, then you think. If you are not, then who is going to think? Thinking cannot exist in a vacuum. If somebody says, “I am, therefore I think”, it is right. But to say “I think, therefore I am” is simply absurd. But still there is a meaning to it: Descartes is the father of western philosophy, and the whole western mind has been influenced by two persons - Aristotle and Descartes. So in the west everything goes through thinking; EVEN BEING GOES THROUGH THINKING. Even being is not a simple fact; you have to think about it first, then you are - as if it is a logical conclusion. It is existential, it is not logical."
The first Scruton book looked interesting. ... Have you read Josh Rasmussen's novel "When Heaven Invaded Hell"? If you have, I think it'd be cool to have him on to discuss the novel. The novel is about Christian Universalism.
I've been enjoying your videos lately. I see you are steeped in Western Christian philosophy and especially the philosophy of the mind. I was curious if you have looked at Orthodox theology/philosophy and our distinction between the heart-mind ("nous") and the rational mind. If not, I could recommend a few authors. Cheers!
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Hi Parker, I appreciate your love of philosophy. I have seen you are widely read in Occidental philosophy. I haven't seen you mention Oriental or Indian philosophy any time at all. Have you tried Vedic philosophy and theology? The Bhagavad-gītā, for example? I have some very good recommendations if you are interested in Vedic theology and philosophy.
Nah, not really interested. I studied Indian philosophy just a bit back in comparative religion courses and it just didn't do it for me. As I study idealism more maybe I'll come back around but I'm usually prompted by others to study non-Western philosophers because they're overlooked but not necessarily because they said anything particularly unique or because they said anything in a better way than the Westerners. Only so much time to read and I really like the Western tradition for now. I'll listen to others talk about other traditions though and maybe I'll get interested
I am going to make a book about existence And I some books sound really similar to one another and ask, should I get all of them ? Or should I pick some specific ones ? If so which ones ? Rn I will pick up the first 3
Is the view from nowhere similar in its message as Robert Pirsig’s view on quality in Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance? I know Pirsig discusses subject and object heavily in his book.
Hey Parker, thanks for this video. I appreciate your help in defining the three major classifications of philosophy. I'm going back to school for a 3rd degree and have decided to Major in Philosophy with a Minor in English. I've been trying to wrap my head around all the branches of thought and having these three major divisions with which to classify all the others was very helpful.
Hi Parker. Some good choices there my friend. I like Roger Scruton's work to introduce philosophy to beginners. Of course in my top ten I would have put a couple of primary texts that you missed out and excluded a couple that you included...but that's philosophy. My primary inclusions would have been Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals, and Foucault's Discipline and Punish. I would have excluded the Chalmers book. His earlier books were better for a newcomer. I'm not a fan of Descartes, but I can see why you included it. I look forward to your next ten choices, I would certainly include Plato and Aristotle in there. I first fell in love with philosophy when Sophie-Grace Chappell introduced me to Plato...I can't give a higher recommendation that. Great video Parker, thank you for sharing your thoughts.
Thanks for this! I was thinking of you when I made it. I figured you wouldn't like the Descartes and Chalmers lol I'm surprised by your inclusion of Nietzsche and Foucault. Thanks for this!
@@ParkerNotes I included Nietzsche and Foucault because the way they have influenced philosophical thinking, not to mention their impact on social theory. I really do admire your taking on the task of making these recommendations. I have always been lucky in that someone else, or even my institution have set the texts for me. That did teach me though, how to present a balanced presentation of texts that I fundamentally disagree with. But that's a discussion for another time. Good luck my friend.
@@ParkerNotes Just a final personal thought for you Parker. When Scruton talked about the two types of philosopher...most of us study other philosophers. My advice to you my friend, is that you get on to your PhD ASAP, then you can become the philosopher that the rest of us read and comment on. A PhD starts that process. Go for it my friend...who knows, you might be in my top ten recommended texts...
@@ParkerNotes Not sure what you mean by programmes. I chose my topic independently, and then found a supervisor from my university who understood what I was trying to do. The process was quite straightforward...no programme involved. Maybe it's different here in the UK, all of our prestigious universities are well known. We don't have some of the 'types' of universities that you have in the USA.
Big fan of Roger Scruton and Michael Huemer. I bought Being Logical, and have it in my classroom, but haven't yet read it. Studied Chalmers in a Philosophy of Mind class. Professor was a friend of his. Our textbook was an anthology edited by Chalmers. I have to pick up that Frame book! Thanks for this.
📚 I've been looking for a philosophy video recommendation list for so long! Thank you so very much 😍 Also would love to hear your suggestions for philosophy books that don't explore Western thinking, such as the ones you mentioned earlier in your video Islamic, Indian etc.
How about making that comprehensive list of all books you think one needs to read to become a philosopher? I know I really need such a list, as an autodidact, even if its a few hundred names long.
@@ParkerNotes Many would greatly appreciate it, I know I would. Self-studying philosophy is much more difficult if you don't have any definitive direction.
@AnusObitAbitOnus I would argue that there is no list of books one needs to read to become a philosopher. I think that philosophy is a way of life characterized by an attitude toward inquiry. You could even practice philosophy without reading anything at all (although reading more will generally help you philosophize better-I'm definitely not recommending that you don't bother with reading). If you're just looking for a direction to help narrow your study, a good strategy is to read some classic works of the canon (get these from an anthology of articles or a survey of the history of philosophy), see what topics in them interest you, and look those things up on the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Mine the entry's bibliography; you'll probably find at least one interesting contemporary article. If a Google search doesn't bring up a PDF of the article you're looking for, try finding the author's website; a lot of philosophers put pre-publication drafts of their papers up on their websites. That will help you develop an idea of what you like reading about, what stimulates your thoughts, and who is being cited as important in that area. You can also try finding the course catalog for a university, see which professors are teaching which philosophy classes, and email those professors asking for a reading list or copy of the syllabus.
Love your recommendations. You've pushed me over the edge to dive more deeply into philosophy. What would you classify the works of Francis Schaeffer as? Hope your little one is well!
I fully second the recommendation of Huemer's Knowledge Reality and Value! (the only book on this list I've read lol) Huemer's Understanding Knowledge is also great :)
Parker, I just noticed in the 1st few seconds of this video , showing you sitting and reading , that your left leg is going "up and down" or "jigging". Military people call it {and some climbers} "Sewing Machine Knee". This is caused by anxiety/stress. Beleive me I had done it for 25 years, I have stopped...GBT training......Great Videos by the way mate
Hey man, I love your videos. I wanted to ask if you have ever tried an E-ink tablet as a notebook. Would love your thoughts on that. Greetings from Germany!
Hey, thanks for the support!! I use an eReader for annotating philosophy papers but I don't want to use one for a notebook. My whole this is compartmentalizing notebooks for different purposes. It helps me immensely. So having them all in different digital folders on the same eReader defeats the purpose for me. But I can definitely see them being helpful for lots of people
Interesting that you mentioned Frame! Do you consider Frame to be fairly accurate in his interpretation of western philosophy? I've listened to some of his lectures from RTS, that and given his VanTillian background has given me pause to buying his book. He often left me more confused actually. In general, I find Arthur Holmes and thomists to be a lot more neutral in their reading and helpfull.
Hey. Parker. I picked up the Huemer and I'm reading through it now. He's great at keeping the reader engaged and interested. Just got to the section about skepticism and I'm utterly fascinated! Also, what the heck is up with the prices of Thomas Nagel books? Even a used copy of View from Nowhere seems pricey. I did pick up a used copy of his What Does it All Mean? for relatively cheap (a new copy also seems insanely priced) and that one is great!
I’ve read the Huemer book and it’s excellent. He mostly writes with a conversational style, with excellent analogies, to help people understand. I have his “On Knowledge” book in my reading queue.
Could you make one for eastern/Islamic philosophy? I really want to learn more about non-western philosophy and I would love some guidance from someone with academic knowledge.
Thank you so much for this video! 📚the one that stuck out the most to me was “Why? The purpose of the universe”, so I’m definitely going for that one. Also the ones from Scruton sound super interesting too
For us beginners, I would suggest these: 1. The Philosophy Book, big ideas simply explained 2. Basic Teachings Of The Great Philosophers 3. Metaphysics a very short introduction
📚 a note for myself,, philosophy is something a person agreed on based on his experiences,if our experiences are same we relate,it's not the concrete reality , and theology is interesting tho misused
