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Most accessible philosophy works

Primary works​

  • Plato's Apology and Crito in Socrates' Last Days
  • Plato's Republic
  • Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (lectures by Sadler)
  • Meditations on First Philosophy by Descartes
  • On the suffering of the World (Schopenhauer)
  • John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism
  • Myth of Sisyphus

Secondary works​

  • Inwagen: Introduction to Metaphysics
  • Chalmers: Introduction to Philosophy of Science
  • Lindberg: Origins of Western Science
  • James Rachels: Introduction to Ethics (or sthg similar)
  • Kolakowski: Main currents of Marxism (I’d buy the whole thing as a reference work, but for our purposes I’d read only the first volume)
  • Zegarelli: Logic for Dummies