Top 10 Philosophy Books - The ultimate philosophy reading list

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  • @PhilosophyVibe
    @PhilosophyVibe  ปีที่แล้ว +15

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    • @SagaOfStoics
      @SagaOfStoics ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The Republic is amazing.

    • @saftheartist6137
      @saftheartist6137 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Hello Philosophy Vibe may you make a video on “Requalism” 👇
      “Requalism
      Etymology of Requalism: The term “Requalism” is derived from the combination of the words “re,” meaning back, “equal” shortened to “qual” for even, and “ism” for process.
      The Components of Requalism
      Requalism is a belief system that can be broken down into four key components, which are interconnected and work together to form the foundation. These components include:
      1. Interconnectedness of All Things in the Universe: Requalism emphasizes the idea that everything in the universe is interconnected, and that understanding this interconnectedness is essential for gaining a deeper understanding of oneself and the world around them. This concept is based on the Reflective Equilibrium Hypothesis, which suggests that the universe is a reflection of interconnected principles.
      2. Understanding The Nature of Identity Through Interests, Perceptions, and Values: Requalism places a strong emphasis on understanding the nature of identity through interests, perceptions, and values. Interests serve as stimuli that capture attention, perceptions involve the processing of interests, and values are patterns of interest that shape an individual’s identity. This concept is derived from the IPV Theory, which is a part of the Reflective Equilibrium Hypothesis.
      3. Conservation of Balance and Order in the Universe: Requalism also focuses on the conservation of balance and order in the universe, a concept based on the Law of Arrangeability. This law is founded on entropy and the conservation of balance and order in physical systems. By acknowledging this principle, Requalism encourages individuals to maintain a sense of balance and order in their own lives and to recognize the interconnectedness of all things in the universe. In turn, everything exists within a network of relationships and interconnectedness.
      4. Relativity of Truth and the Presence of Error Interference: Finally, Requalism challenges the notion of absolute truth by suggesting that truth can only be established through the presence of error interference. This concept is derived from the Equivalence Error, which is another component of the Reflective Equilibrium Hypothesis. By emphasizing the relativity of truth and the importance of recognizing and understanding the relativity in errors, Requalism encourages individuals to approach knowledge and understanding with humility and open-mindedness.
      In summary, Requalism is a belief system that acknowledges the interconnectedness of all things in the universe, the importance of understanding identity with interests, perceptions, and values, and the idea that truth is relative and can only be established through the presence of error interference.”

  • @schopenhauer666
    @schopenhauer666 ปีที่แล้ว +103

    Can't believe I'm not in the list.

    • @happyvalleykid6324
      @happyvalleykid6324 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Absolutely snubbed!!!

    • @leonschmidt9902
      @leonschmidt9902 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I love you schopenhauer!!!

    • @Skull_Knight_himself
      @Skull_Knight_himself ปีที่แล้ว +13

      World is cruel, Mr schopenhauer

    • @zrodricks3303
      @zrodricks3303 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      life is suffering indeed , mr.schopenhauer

    • @lordfarquaad3939
      @lordfarquaad3939 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      At least Hegel didn’t make the list either.

  • @michaelnilsen5082
    @michaelnilsen5082 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Thank you for your top ten list of philosophy books. I attentively listened with much interest. I've read six of them but will definitely purchase the others you recommended. Keep philosophising!

  • @Rspknlikeab0ssxd
    @Rspknlikeab0ssxd ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Love the list. Berkeley is my philosophical man, and Descartes one of my favorites.
    I would add that if you are interested in Berkeley's philosophy, or are going to read Berkeley's Principles, I'd recommend reading the Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous. It's Berkeley's philosophy presented in dialogue form- so it's more accessible IMO. The Principles is generally more detailed, but you get really incisive arguments concerning especially perception and the mind in the Dialogues.
    Berkeley writing is also one of a kind for its clarity and grace. His style was considered fine by Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift and the best London writers of his day

  • @tyleryoast8299
    @tyleryoast8299 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    We read Descartes in my Early Modern Philosophy class at college. I was so surprised at how it completely challenged my basic notions about reality, about what qualities of knowledge we take for granted. The meditation on the wax really drove it home for me. I also love that the method made essential knowledge something available to the everyman. People can train themselves into what they want to be, not into some pre-ordained caste assigned at birth by society or god.

    • @MikeFuller-ok6ok
      @MikeFuller-ok6ok 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I have read the first 6 pages of the first chapter of 'Beyond Good and Evil' by Friedrich Nietzsche. I found it hard going. Ah well, I am just not an intellectual.
      I have the book 'The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination' by Jacob Bronowski too.

    • @tyleryoast8299
      @tyleryoast8299 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@MikeFuller-ok6ok A lot of philosophy is in response to schools of thought that have been developing since Ancient times. They make references to problems and use terminology that has had thousands of years to evolve. Sometimes a primer text is required to understand the context of a piece of philosophy, as well as the way they're using the terms to describe things. Sometimes I think they're being intentionally impenetrable and inscrutable though. If you write confusing and sometimes say something poignant, people will spend generations working out what the hell you were trying to say. I've tried reading Kierkegaard as well as Heidegger and it's mostly nonsense to me. I hear Hegel is hard to read too.
      The audiobook for history of western philosophy is very good and gives a background to a lot of what these people are talking about.

    • @MikeFuller-ok6ok
      @MikeFuller-ok6ok 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@tyleryoast8299 Having said that about Bertrand Russell though, although his 'Principia' really does explain, I believe, how 1 + 1 really is 2, I think the vast majority of people would find it highly complex. But I have never tried to read it so I don't really know.

  • @SagaOfStoics
    @SagaOfStoics ปีที่แล้ว +11

    "Man is not disturbed by events, but by the view he takes of them." - Epictetus
    Stay Calm. Stay Wise. Stay Stoic.

    • @Henok-qn6nc
      @Henok-qn6nc 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      would you recommend stoic book bro?

    • @SagaOfStoics
      @SagaOfStoics 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@Henok-qn6nc A personal favorite of mine is "Letters from a Stoic" by Seneca

    • @masonelliott4792
      @masonelliott4792 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Stoicism is a good secular philosophy, but when you get to the nitty-gritty of what it means to be stoic, many premises intuitively feel wrong. I think stoicism does a great job of following the wisdom traditions, and there are a lot of good takeaways, but many points of stoicism have been tossed aside for a reason.

  • @hordewithbenoni9520
    @hordewithbenoni9520 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    It is really hard to make a top 10 philosophy book list. I think Plato's five dialogues is a better starting point than the Republic. Kudos to you for choosing Locke, he is quite an underrated philosopher. Decartes is great, but I feel like not #1. Ok, maybe he is #1 for someone who wants to start getting into philosophy as Meditations is a fantastic book for such people.

    • @Xob_Driesestig
      @Xob_Driesestig ปีที่แล้ว

      "later on JSM discarded his own utilitarianism saying it was garbage"
      Do you have a source for that? The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy says he remained a utilitarian his entire life.

    • @hordewithbenoni9520
      @hordewithbenoni9520 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Xob_Driesestig No sorry I must be thinking of someone else. I could have sworn it was jon stuart mill who said he regretted being a utilitarian after he had seen what happened to the ussr, but jsm died before the ussr even started. My bad !! I will edit my first comment. I always filtered out utilitarians and utilitarianism from my mind, so I didn't remember the details. I only really know much about Jeremy Bentham and Peter Singer...and a couple deep ecologists.

  • @duffypratt
    @duffypratt ปีที่แล้ว +4

    So much of Philosophy is a conversation that writers are having with those who have gone before. Kant, for example, is largely unintelligible unless you are already grounded in Hume and Descartes. If I were to make such a list, it would probably consist of the books I believe provide a good basis for understanding Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations. That would, almost by necessity, give short shrift to moral/political philosophy, and also to more modern Continental thinkers.
    If I have a criticism of your list, it’s that it leans too heavily on the core Empiricists (Locke, Berkeley and Hume). Also, it completely neglects modern Continental philosophy/rationalism post-Kant (Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty). That part doesn’t bother me personally as much, since I don’t get much out of those philosophers, but there impact on the “world” of philosophy is pretty much undeniable.

  • @CIMAmotor
    @CIMAmotor ปีที่แล้ว +4

    AJ Ayer's theories have been blown out of the water several times. Interesting read though.

    • @CIMAmotor
      @CIMAmotor ปีที่แล้ว

      @@50deluxe4 Your question doesn't make any sense. Re-word it so I can understand and I might reply.

    • @vincentandrew4544
      @vincentandrew4544 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@50deluxe4even by Ayer himself. He stated in an interview with Magee that "Nearly all of it were false."

  • @soccerlife5041
    @soccerlife5041 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I would add aquinas to this list. He is one of the best

  • @peterflom6878
    @peterflom6878 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    What do you get if you cross Immanuel Kant with Don Corleone?
    An offer you can't understand!

  • @wisdomseeker3937
    @wisdomseeker3937 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wonderful. It's exactly what I've been searching for.

  • @Skull_Knight_himself
    @Skull_Knight_himself ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Can you please do more top 10 philosophy books but for certain periods or centuries, like top 10 philosophy books in 20th century or top 10 philosophy books in 19th century and same thing for ancient and medieval philosophy, and also videos for top 10 influential philosophers in every period

    • @Cactuscupcake1972
      @Cactuscupcake1972 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I pinch myself and ask myself all the time: Are you a real person ?
      I kissed you so I know youre full of passion and life.

    • @Cactuscupcake1972
      @Cactuscupcake1972 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Oh damn, a private text got added here instead !!!

  • @garyhughes1664
    @garyhughes1664 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    A great list, but I’d go for a general introduction before reading any of these books, wonderful though they are. I would recommend Bertrand Russell’s History of Western Philosophy. Published over sixty years ago, it still reads beautifully today; it is full of Russell’s opinions, and provides clear summaries of all books mentioned in your list, save for A.J. Ayer’s Language, Truth and logic.

    • @jordanoconnor4954
      @jordanoconnor4954 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@davespb6183imo Durant & Russell both miss the mark and misrepresent a lot in their books. From Durant making it more narrative to Russell's butchering of Hegel. If you want to get an introduction, get an introductory textbook. 1 person trying to write about and describe that make philosophers/philosophies is doomed to fail. Textbooks are the way to go, even if they require a bit more time to get through

  • @NB-nabin
    @NB-nabin 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Sir im a beginner to philosophy so can you make videos on basic terminology to start journey on philosophy.
    Terminology like
    Rationalism , ideolism, empricism , transdentaliam , like tahat.

  • @kredit787
    @kredit787 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Descartes as number one is reasonable. Outlines of Pyrrhonism by Sextus Empiricus is the source for skepticism of Montaigne, Descartes and Hume.

  • @jklundell
    @jklundell ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hegel, Philosophical Investigations, and James.

  • @kieferonline
    @kieferonline 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Nice list! If it were me, a philosophical amateur, putting list list together, I might have done the exact reverse order! 😅 Still, for a unified collection of 10 books, it's an excellent collection.
    My honorable mentions: The Enneads by Plotinus, After Virtue by Alasdair McIntyre, and Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas.

  • @AshleyChillingworth
    @AshleyChillingworth 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Really thought the first would be Wittgenstein's Tractatus...

  • @TheChurchofBreadandCheese
    @TheChurchofBreadandCheese ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Hoping to see the Schoper on this list! Nice way to enjoy my cup of tea.

    • @pixel9548
      @pixel9548 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You're close enough to have nicknames for each other?

  • @Double-Troublee
    @Double-Troublee 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thought Being and Time was in the list ..

  • @middleDZ
    @middleDZ 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Will we ever get a live-action video!?

  • @jackquinnes
    @jackquinnes 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What an outrageously subjective list and as such quite a liberating one. Just take your picks and feel free to change your mind later on!

  • @NB-nabin
    @NB-nabin 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Please make video on top 10 philosophy book of eastern philosophy.❤

  • @Premiseandconclusion
    @Premiseandconclusion 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    On the Genealogy of Morality???

  • @zechariahsmith1764
    @zechariahsmith1764 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The enchiridion by Epictetus

  • @celiadances2147
    @celiadances2147 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Throughout the whole video up until the final reveal, I was thinking WHAT??! no Descartes???!!

    • @celiadances2147
      @celiadances2147 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Can we add Spinoza and Epicurus and have it be a Top 12 since they are so relevant to naturalism and our current approach to science??

  • @phantomknight1395
    @phantomknight1395 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    No Schopenhauer 😴

  • @Chriscorpr
    @Chriscorpr 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Where's Being and Time and The Tractatus?

  • @epiccabbage6530
    @epiccabbage6530 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I can't tell if this is intended for beginners, if so you should have excluded kant, or for everyone, if so you should have included hegel

  • @lukehannigan70898
    @lukehannigan70898 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Poetics by Aristotle

  • @alexmen95kn
    @alexmen95kn 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Nice! It's not bad to add Martin Heidegger's book "Being and Time"("Sein und Zeit").

  • @zrodricks3303
    @zrodricks3303 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    fact that bro didnt even include "the world as a will and representation"...

  • @theDiReW0lf
    @theDiReW0lf 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    If you’re a functioning absurdist with a dark sense of humor, check out Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk.

  • @aaronsaunders6974
    @aaronsaunders6974 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    1886-a year b4 mary anne nichols murder. nietzsche also published another 1 in September of 1888. Not sure what book that was

  • @williamjacobsen2291
    @williamjacobsen2291 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nothing by Paul Ricoeur?

  • @nps3b
    @nps3b 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Sartre, Husserl missing

  • @josephromance3908
    @josephromance3908 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Spinoza

    • @SheldonRokeach-gr7pg
      @SheldonRokeach-gr7pg 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      spinoza einstein and schopnhauer have a great life

  • @benquinneyiii7941
    @benquinneyiii7941 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    In California

  • @bobcabot
    @bobcabot 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ...you got it all upside down! ?

  • @leonschmidt9902
    @leonschmidt9902 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Schopenhauer didn't make the list :( I'm sure if he did all your viewers would see youtube as volition and deny it. safe choice keeping the greatest german idealist off the list.

    • @SamuelWeatherly
      @SamuelWeatherly 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hegel Heraclitus and Marx didn’t make it

  • @LilGanjam
    @LilGanjam ปีที่แล้ว

    How's it going man.

  • @coveredinthorns7185
    @coveredinthorns7185 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Beyond Good and Evil does not belong on this list lol😂

  • @gumpy5953
    @gumpy5953 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    no das kapital is crazy

  • @Skr1952
    @Skr1952 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You look like Nietzsche if he was a millenial. 😂
    In all seriousness, I like seeing other people's takes on the most ground-breaking philosophy books.

  • @Clounlamer1
    @Clounlamer1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great list! disappointed I didn't see Hegel or Leibniz .

  • @NB-nabin
    @NB-nabin 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love u 🥰

  • @turntablesrockmyworld9315
    @turntablesrockmyworld9315 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    No Bertrand Russell? I'm out.

  • @willem-laurens_cloet2602
    @willem-laurens_cloet2602 ปีที่แล้ว

  • @infamoussnoke9113
    @infamoussnoke9113 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Where is Hegel?

    • @leonschmidt9902
      @leonschmidt9902 ปีที่แล้ว

      who is that? hahahaha

    • @Jamric-gr8gr
      @Jamric-gr8gr 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      kant understand Hegel😂

  • @fernandoroza6061
    @fernandoroza6061 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks for excluding Hegel .

  • @benquinneyiii7941
    @benquinneyiii7941 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The matrix

  • @TheScholarlyBaptist
    @TheScholarlyBaptist 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Immanuel Kant more like Immanuel can't disprove the ontological argument for the existence of god 😁😂😂
    anyone it was a good joke right 😁

  • @JamesJoyce12
    @JamesJoyce12 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Rather iconoclastic-no serious philosopher could put Plato anywhere but #1 "The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. ` Alfred North Whitehead. And Nietzsche's masterpieces are arguably The Gay Science and the On the Genealogy of Morality. And no one should try to read Kant's three Critiques unless they plan to specialize - his Prolegomena is far easier going and of sufficient depths for all non-Kant scholars. And I have no idea why Ayer vs. Wittgenstein - Ayer is not even in the same planet as these philosophers you list.

  • @achyuthcn2555
    @achyuthcn2555 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Where are books on eastern philosophy??? The audacity to not mention any eastern philosophy!!!!!

    • @Premiseandconclusion
      @Premiseandconclusion 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      atleast mention Schopenhauer

    • @Sdfghjk442
      @Sdfghjk442 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      He mentioned it was largely about western philosophy if I’m not mistaken

    • @achyuthcn2555
      @achyuthcn2555 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Sdfghjk442,The video was supposed to be about philosophy, not just western philosophy.

    • @Sdfghjk442
      @Sdfghjk442 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@achyuthcn2555look at minute 40 onwards. He gives the “core reading material for WESTERN philosophy” in the video

    • @achyuthcn2555
      @achyuthcn2555 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@Sdfghjk442the video itself is 13 minutes long.

  • @Radegastx0
    @Radegastx0 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    An absolutely terrible list. Putting Berkeley above Kant? lol....Maybe because you don't understand Kant you're unable to appreciate him?

    • @t.d.2016
      @t.d.2016 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Drop your list here, big man.

    • @leonschmidt9902
      @leonschmidt9902 ปีที่แล้ว

      1. Kant
      2. Schopenhauer
      3. Hume
      4. Plato
      5. Mainlander
      6. Cioran
      7. Benatar

    • @Jamric-gr8gr
      @Jamric-gr8gr 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      benatar for real? lmao 😂

    • @vincentandrew4544
      @vincentandrew4544 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Bro it's his list

    • @t.d.2016
      @t.d.2016 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@leonschmidt9902
      Schopenhauer, Cioran, and Benatar...
      Are you okay, man?

  • @dandelves
    @dandelves 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So, nothing even remotely new. Just as expected

  • @freemind279
    @freemind279 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I would put Nietzsche as the first!

  • @africantilapia5831
    @africantilapia5831 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Spinoza