Philosophy Books

[Kyo]

Im looking for some good philosophy book ideas, these books are going to be a gift for a friend of a friend. Ive never read much myself so Im trying to help my friend out with finding some good ones. Any help is much appreciated.

[Shiroikage]

Any ideas about level or content? This is kind of like just asking for recommendations about fiction.

[Ghost_Wheel22]

Nietzsche?

[Beckwin]

sartre

[Kyo]

Any ideas about level or content? This is kind of like just asking for recommendations about fiction.

Not really, it is really a vague generalization I know, but Im not completely sure what she would be into, so pretty much anything could be a help.

[Cantih]

Get them something on Epicurus or Diogenes of Sinope.

[Alleya]

Dan Dennet.

[Saxon]

The Bible

[Linliel]

There are plenty of classic texts that any philosopher could use many copies of. If it's a gift, maybe find one in a nice binding or something, usually the classics are.
Anything by Plato or Aristotle is great. If they're more continentally minded, Descartes, Satre, Derrida, Nietzsche, Baudrillard; ethics: Kant, Rawls, Mill, Russell (actually Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy is quite an awesome read). I also like a bit of Wittgenstein and such as well. Really depends what sort of things they're into

But for a philosopher I really would get something that was nicely bound over trying to find something that s/he might not have. Oh yeah, there's a good philosophical joke book too, http://www.platoandaplatypus.com/ -- it's actually funny, if you're a philosopher

[MF Perm tha Fineass]

Eric Hoffer

[Day]

Eric Hoffer

shutup moby

[MF Perm tha Fineass]

lol you make me so giddy

[MF Perm tha Fineass]

don't strain yourself too hard bud don't want those whiteheads poppin all over your screen

[Day]

you are a whitehead

[Day]

moby

[Gredival]

Their areas of interest in philosophy are kinda crucial here. Can you buy them a subscription to a philosophy magazine, like the Philosophical Quarterly

[MF Perm tha Fineass]

http://shanghaiist.com/attachments/s...y/0810rage.jpg


try harder nigga its thanksgiving I need to FEEL how much you think about me, not just read it

[Day]

you would want to feel me faggot. keep dreamin moby.

[MF Perm tha Fineass]

here comes another tantrum

success!

[Day]

Sorry bout your tantrum. thank you on the congrats.