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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. 📚
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.
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.
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
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
📚📚📚📚 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 😈
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.
📚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! 😊
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.
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📚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!
About the Greek word "philo-sophia", is it really "love-of-wisdom"? In other words that describe love for something, the word "philia" stands in second place: para-philia, biblio-philia, nycto-philia. As well as words with "phobia". And we translate them as "love of ---" or " love to ---". But here there is a difference in word order. So is it "a love of wisdom", or is it really "a wisdom of love"?
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.
📚 - never heard Why? The Purpose of the Universe... i was sucked into How the Universe Works, the series. Loved it. and one of the questions that rattled my brain... If the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into? -- Blew my Mind away. Really fun series if you like Space and Beyond and How it Works. Thanks for the list -- I just started a reading practice this year and read a lot of Self Improvement and poetry and just a lot of awareness. Really enjoy listening to your videos and appreciate the content.
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?
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".
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
📚 Being in cyber I found Reality+ and Being Logical interesting and will pick those up for sure. Honestly all the books in this episode seem really interesting and will make it onto my TBR list. Thanks for the recommendations!
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
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?
📚 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.
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.
📚 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...✊🤣
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!
📚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
A lot of my masters degree involves philosophy. Primarily Lacan, Zizek, Johnstone etc. Topics such as subjectivity, morality, human flourishing, transcendental materialism etc
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 also like Consolations of Philosophy by Alain De Botton. It’s a simple introductory book that both will written and entertaining. 📚
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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
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 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.
📚 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.
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
📚 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
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 :)
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
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.
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 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 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!
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.
@@ParkerNotes after just working with ChatGPT , it gave me an overview of my abilities , get this: , based on former use and my questions asked to ChatGPT... Scary! Ive bought this book now to ponder : david chalmers reality + (unfortunatelly your link to get some fee does not work in Europe... sorry for that )
after working with chatgpt I jokingly asked it to give me my 5 strongest talents/abilities. It did so willingly, get this: based on my former questions asked and former interactions with ChatGPT.... Scary shit!!! 😳So I decided to go for the book : David Chalmers reality + (unfortunately your fee link does not work in Europe , sorry for that) @@ParkerNotes
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
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.
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.
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
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. 😊
Sir I started philosophy from Sophie world, history of western philosophy by Bernard Russel, story of philosophy, pleasure of philosophy, outline of philosophy these books I read now where I move ( philosophy is not my acedmic)
@@ParkerNotes yes sir but according to your recommended books are introductory but I have basics knowledge of philosophy I want read advance Islamic philosophy suggest me
@@ParkerNotes Oo no sir western philosopher boorow ideas from Islamic philosophers specially Rene Descartes and David Hume , Hume cause and effect idea is similar to Al Ghazli, you should read About Al Ghazli book Revival of religious thought and Incoherence of philosophy
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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. 📚
Let's go! I'm so glad to hear this. I hope you love them
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.
Awesome! I need to bone up on political and legal philosophy.
@@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.
@@acommonlawyer_You should check out No Treason by Lysander Spooner.
Dude i'm a philosophy nerd and this video is just for me. Journaling helped me to improve my life so much. I hope your channel would blow up one day!
Let's go! And it kind of is blowing up but I'm ready for it to pop even more
Idk what it is, but the vibe you give off makes me want to hang out with you and talk philosophy lol. I appreciate the videos
Bro! 🫡🤝
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.
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
Haha thanks man! That sounds fun maybe I could do an Instagram one or something
@@ParkerNotesYees, please, we're waiting anyway)))
I am interested in participating if this becomes a thing
Hey Parker, would you consider making a bookshelf tour video (or series)? I think that would be awesome!
Thanks! Yeah I'm still thinking about the best way to do it. Need to watch how other people do them I guess
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
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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 😈
Reality is the present moment not the thinking which is never in the present. A trained mind can stay in present awareness sans thoughts.
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I grabbed the Kindle samples for several of these. Thanks for the great recommendations!
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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.
Thanks!
Thank you!!!
📚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! 😊
So glad you enjoyed it!!
📚Just ordered a few of these. Thank you!
Awesome! Very glad to help
Love this video! Thanks so much
@@cindyl3297 🙌🙌 so glad you enjoyed it!
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.
I started self learning journey from being logical and philosopher 's toolkit after you mentioned it in your video of "how to think logically".
Wow that's awesome!!
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📚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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About the Greek word "philo-sophia", is it really "love-of-wisdom"? In other words that describe love for something, the word "philia" stands in second place: para-philia, biblio-philia, nycto-philia. As well as words with "phobia". And we translate them as "love of ---" or " love to ---". But here there is a difference in word order. So is it "a love of wisdom", or is it really "a wisdom of love"?
The short books are the most appealing to me, lol! 😆📚
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.
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📚 - never heard Why? The Purpose of the Universe... i was sucked into How the Universe Works, the series. Loved it. and one of the questions that rattled my brain... If the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into? -- Blew my Mind away. Really fun series if you like Space and Beyond and How it Works. Thanks for the list -- I just started a reading practice this year and read a lot of Self Improvement and poetry and just a lot of awareness. Really enjoy listening to your videos and appreciate the content.
📚 going to be looking into Why and a few others here. Great way to start expanding.
Awesome!!
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?
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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".
Glad you mentioned Frame. I wish he got more attention in the philosophy world.
He shoulda finished his philosophy PhD work and then maybe but that's okay he's had a huge impact on lots and lots and lots of people
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
📚Thanks for the recommendations! Just starting with philosophy, got hooked by Marcus Aurelius.
Yeah that'll do it. He's so good!
📚 Just getting into wisdom lit, so I'm planning to look into B Pascal's work. Thank you so much for the recommendations!
📚 Being in cyber I found Reality+ and Being Logical interesting and will pick those up for sure. Honestly all the books in this episode seem really interesting and will make it onto my TBR list. Thanks for the recommendations!
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
Have you read these?
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
Is this for real? That's really awesome if so!
What do you exactly mean when you say “Slave of Christ”?
Maybe Servant has a better ring to it 😂
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?
I usually love Kreeft. Love his style. I'll have to check it out!
Definitely going to be checking out Roger Scruton! Thanks! 📚
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📚 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.
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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...
@@Doctor.T.46 haha I am currently applying to programs 😅
@@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.
I am particularly interested in logickind of philosophy.the introduction to logic ,i am looking for ward to read
Here is my logic book recommendation list
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📚 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...✊🤣
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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 love me some Schaeffer. He's an apologist and Christian intellectual.
I read “The Story of Philosophy”, an oversize book, richly illustrated, which was very good. A DK book Circa 1999 so maybe not in print.
Thanks for this video. Hey! Why not a review of pocket books on modern phiosophy concerns?
This is all so beautiful, I can read the words of all of existence for these philosophers are existence
The Lullaby of the Cosmos 🤩
Im back baby gonna binge all your latest videos
Let's go!
📚 I will grab the ones I can find here in Brazil. 😅 Shipping can be hard, I miss Book Depository so much. 😭
It's your fault that I am obsessed with Pascal! Great content as always! 📚
Yessss!!!!!!
📚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
Thanks!
I would also like to recommend Phenomenology of the Spirit as well as CCRU: Writings 1997-2003
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🙌🙌 this is why I do it. So glad to help. Thanks for appreciating it!
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A lot of my masters degree involves philosophy. Primarily Lacan, Zizek, Johnstone etc. Topics such as subjectivity, morality, human flourishing, transcendental materialism etc
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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.
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I also like Consolations of Philosophy by Alain De Botton. It’s a simple introductory book that both will written and entertaining. 📚
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
Personally, all philosophical questions end in the ultimate deepest question; whats for lunch?
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!
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Just wondering, how many books have you read and how much do you read in a day/year?
I usually finish 50-60 a year. Been doing that since 2013. I try to read 50-75 pages a day
📚 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.
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📚 Thank you for this list! I'm going to start with the first 3 and _Why?_
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I wanna try with the one that includes Theology 📚 I hope I can find it in kindle format. good video!
I'm sure it'll be on kindle
Some great books. Food for thought! Best wishes.
📚 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.
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
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Done as you said and btw love you too brother 👍❤
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📚 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
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Which of the books of the 11
Would teach me about all of existence
All of them or specific ones?
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 :)
He's a beast! He's been on my podcast like 6 or 7 times now lol
No 'Problems of Philosophy' - Bertrand Russell? 😢
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
Some great recommendations. I’m not sure the first Scruton book is for beginners…
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.
We bought some books on your site. We are a husband and wife team of philosophy.
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.
Nah I haven't. He's been on the pod a few times but not to talk about Universalism yet
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 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!
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.
Haha that's a tall task!!
@@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.
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@@ParkerNotes after just working with ChatGPT , it gave me an overview of my abilities , get this: , based on former use and my questions asked to ChatGPT... Scary! Ive bought this book now to ponder : david chalmers reality + (unfortunatelly your link to get some fee does not work in Europe... sorry for that )
after working with chatgpt I jokingly asked it to give me my 5 strongest talents/abilities. It did so willingly, get this: based on my former questions asked and former interactions with ChatGPT.... Scary shit!!! 😳So I decided to go for the book : David Chalmers reality + (unfortunately your fee link does not work in Europe , sorry for that) @@ParkerNotes
you forgot the "Myth of Sisyphus" ! ( it was my introduction to Philosophy as a 17 year old boy - from one of the greatest minds ever...
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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
Psychology and philosophy overlapping book recommendations pls.
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.
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Hey I love your content! Do you have a podcast in Spotify?? Greetings from Argentina 🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷
Yeah it's called Parker's Pensées 😁
📚 Reality+ looks very interesting
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I’m disappointed to find that I can’t buy any of these books because they don’t ship to UK
Amazon doesn't ship to the UK?? My buddy told me he got a book ship to him when he was in India a couple months ago
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.
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
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I was finding ur channel. Couldnt remember name. I wrote “philosophy moleskin” and there u popped up 😂 youtube knows what every youtuber is about 😂
😂😂😂 that's so good. My work in summary 😅
📚 Is 11 books on philosophy plus a bonus book like a Philosopher's bakers dozen?
Haha exactly!
I would add “The Joy of Philosophy” by Robert C. Solomon.
Best philosophy podcast?
Probably philosophize this, and then mine 😁 Parker's Pensées
Try Pierre Hadot and Giovanni Reale
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. 😊
😅 that was close!
📚 Would be interested in a vid like this but dealing with (Christian) theology.
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Appreciate you and all your videos, can’t stop watching 😂
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Sir I started philosophy from Sophie world, history of western philosophy by Bernard Russel, story of philosophy, pleasure of philosophy, outline of philosophy these books I read now where I move ( philosophy is not my acedmic)
Did you watch this video? There's 12 book recommendations
@@ParkerNotes yes sir but according to your recommended books are introductory but I have basics knowledge of philosophy I want read advance Islamic philosophy suggest me
@@Ghdhdh233 you could learn a ton from these, especially the view from no where. I don't read Islamic philosophy so you'll have to ask someone else
@@ParkerNotes Oo no sir western philosopher boorow ideas from Islamic philosophers specially Rene Descartes and David Hume , Hume cause and effect idea is similar to Al Ghazli, you should read About Al Ghazli book Revival of religious thought and Incoherence of philosophy
*sigh* whipping out the Goodreads app to add all of them 😅 📚
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@@ParkerNotes don't be man, I'm always in need of more reading material! 😂
if you only have time for one book, read The Kybalion by The Three Initiates