| This is an extremely personal question. I have extreme biases, I personally favour: Bryan Magee's book on Schopenhauer. German Idealism/The Fate of reason by Fredrick Beiser. Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition by Glenn Magee Kant's Transcendental Idealism: An Interpretation and Defense by Allison Plato: Complete Works by John Cooper is good The Paidea series by Jaeger is amazing as is the four volume collection by Giovanni Reale if you're interested in ancient philosophies (like me) ----------- The 'phenomenological' school is considered important. Making Sense of Heidegger by Sheehan Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy by Hass However I think most true Western thought is to be found in the great works of literature. Ovid/Dante etc. try reading Howard Blooms work "The Western Canon". Personally I find most western philosophy quite turgid. |