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- Philosophy Books for BeginnersReading list
I’ve always thought that the best way into philosophy is to read some accessible first-rate philosophy. Genuinely accessible, genuinely first-rate philosophy is hard to find, but Thomas Nagel’s Mortal Questions is always the first example that comes to my mind. The first thing to grab one’s attention is the list of…
- Tamler SommersInterview
Too many to list, but off the top of my head – Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Mortal Questions by Thomas Nagel, Shame and Necessity by Bernard Williams, On the Road by Jack Kerouac (everyone should go through a Kerouac phase…
- Angie HobbsInterview
As mentioned above, it would have to be Symposium by Plato, which made me realise that, in addressing questions about how best to live and love, philosophy could satisfy my creative imagination as well as my desire for rational enquiry. I was also very influenced at an early stage by Mortal Questions by Thomas Nagel…
- David PizarroInterview
I’ve recently been re-reading the collection of essays by Thomas Nagel in his book Mortal Questions. I do a regular podcast with a philosopher (Tamler Sommers) and we’ve been using it as source materials for our discussions, and I’m constantly struck by the clarity of thought and writing, and the wide range of the…
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