The world-recognized enlightenment philosophy is easy to understand, while Sophie's world.
It is a book that everyone with humanistic quality should put on the shelf. If you want to learn philosophy, the best books are original philosophical masterpieces, such as Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Kant and others. But the original text is very difficult to read and easy to misinterpret. But there is no other way.
I think the best introductory book on philosophy is Descartes' Six Meditations in the First Philosophical Meditations, especially the First Meditations, which is only about a dozen pages, but it takes a long time to fully understand and fully understand the author's meaning. After reading this article, you will
It's much easier to read the rest after getting started.
It's absolutely shocking to have the opportunity to come to the philosophy department of Sun Yat-sen University to take Zhai's introduction to philosophy class. There is an internal textbook compiled by him called Introduction to Philosophy, which is an anthology of some original works, but it is actually difficult to understand without his explanation.
First, the West:
1, Sophie's World, by Jostan Garde, translated by Xiao Yusen, Writers Publishing House.
This is a novel and an enlightenment book of western philosophy.
2,' History of Western Philosophy', Russell/book, The Commercial Press.
This is an academic work. You can read this book after reading Sophie's World.
Next, you can look for the important works mentioned above or the works of philosophers you are interested in.
Second, China's:
1, a brief history of Chinese philosophy, written by Feng Youlan.
The original work is written in English. There seems to be a bilingual version, two volumes.
2. Mou Zongsan wrote Nineteen Lectures on China's Philosophy.
3. Introduction to Indian Philosophy, by Liang Shuming.
4. Liang Shuming's Chinese and Western Cultures and Their Philosophy.
5. Life and Human Heart, written by Liang Shuming/.
6. Philosophy of Life, written by Feng Youlan.
7. Tang Yongtong's On Metaphysics in Wei and Jin Dynasties.
8. Read classics, such as Zhuangzi, Laozi, Yijing, Analects of Confucius, Mencius, University, and the Doctrine of the Mean.