I want to know about philosophy, what books can I learn about?

Western Philosophy: Plato: The Ideal Republic.

Aristotle: Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics. Augustus:

Confessions. Descartes: The First Philosophical Meditations.

Locke: "Theory of Human Understanding", "On **". Spinoza:

A New Theory of Human Reason". Montesquieu: On the Spirit of Law

If you have the energy, take a look at Euclid's Prima Geometry and Newton's Principia Mathematica of Natural Philosophy. This is because mathematics and geometry are the basic sciences for the reorganization of natural sciences, led by physics. Take a closer look at Descartes's "Principles of Philosophy" and Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason", although they are profound and difficult to understand, we must remember that these two are representatives of modern classical philosophy.

Also look for Yuval Harari's "A Brief History of Mankind" and "A Brief History of the Future" by Israel's youngest scholars, and Stavrianos's "General History of the World". Don't forget to read Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching and the ancient Book of Changes, as well as Lu Simian's General History of China. If you can follow the advice above, I don't think it will be long before you will enter the door of philosophy.

Russell's History of Western Philosophy, the white cover of the Commercial Press's Chinese translation of the classics, has been hailed as "the best-selling philosophy book of the twentieth century". Russell was an important philosopher, mathematical logician, historian of the 20th century, one of the founders of analytic philosophy, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950. He was invited by Liang Qichao to visit China in 1921 and has had a deep influence in China since then.

He wrote this history of philosophy in a simple way, combing philosophy chronologically, and integrating his own academic views into it. It is suitable for both the general public and professional readers, as it is also considered to be "one of the most widely evaluated academic works between academic and general readers". I remember the most impressive sentence at that time was "Happiness lies in unevenness".

If you have a college or secondary school culture, it is recommended that you must read a good philosophy book written by a native "General Theory of Philosophy", the author of this book is Sun Zhengyu, a professor in the Department of Philosophy of Jilin University. Sun Zhengyu ( ) is a native of Jilin City, Jilin Province, and holds a doctorate in philosophy. Member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Director of the Research Center for Basic Theory of Philosophy of Jilin University, Key Scientific Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education, Senior Professor and Doctoral Supervisor of Philosophy and Social Sciences of Jilin University, Member of the Social Science Committee of the Ministry of Education, Vice Chairman of the Committee for the Construction of Academic Style of the Ministry of Education, and Vice Chairman of the Jilin Provincial Federation of Social Sciences.

His General Theory of Philosophy is a great book to study philosophy! It's well worth reading, and after reading this book, both philosophical knowledge and the history of philosophy are supported.

The History of Western Philosophy is the best introductory philosophical book I have ever read, and the main views, biographies and influences of all the great philosophers in history have been completely recorded by the author in vivid and detailed language. By reading "The History of Western Philosophy", I understood that no matter how complex knowledge is in the end, its ** is experience.

Most people don't know what true philosophy is. So what exactly is philosophy? If you are interested, I suggest you read Aristotle's World in the Oxford General Education and Deng Xiaomang's translation of The History of Western Philosophy.

Before I read this, I would like to advise you to be sure to empty all the philosophical concepts that you have learned from middle school to university, especially the philosophy in your head.

Sophie's World is an introductory book to Western philosophy, and it's very interesting.

Preliminary Chinese Philosophy, which is simple and easy to understand, is very helpful for quickly grasping the development of the history of Chinese philosophy and the views of major Confucian scholars.

Since philosophy has the three characteristics of pursuing the ultimate, logical reflection, and scientific foresight, I suggest that the next step should be to take the natural sciences as the starting point, and take a look at Darwin's "The Origin of Species", Dawkins's "The Selfish Gene", Carl Zimmer's "Evolution", Nike Kline's "The Ascension of Life", and Cramer's "Chaos and Order", which are the basis of information sources for the cause of things.

Montesquieu argued in On the Spirit of Law: "In the broadest sense, law is a necessary relation arising from the nature of things. From this sentence I learned:

Everything is inseparable from the law. We have to look at the law through its connection to other things. Human beings are influenced by factors such as morality, customs, and habits, which constitute the general spirit of a nation.

I can summarize the spirit of this book as follows: Law is the definition of freedom, and what is not prohibited by law is the scope of free activity. The guarantee of freedom lies in the restraint of power, and the mutual restraint between powers is the only feasible way to control power.

I think this is very relevant today.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Martin Luther King, Jr. is familiar with his masterpiece "I Have a Dream". Of course, there are some good philosophical works that I do not recommend, because philosophy itself is to simplify the complex, but understanding philosophy requires complex knowledge and experience, and studying philosophy requires a lifetime.

Wang Xiaobo's "The Silent Majority".

Neil Bozeman's "Entertaining to Death."

Plato's Republic

Feng Youlan's A Brief History of Chinese Philosophy

Russell's History of Western Philosophy, etc.

How Philosophy Was Practiced is a good primer on philosophy, just published.