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Philosophy

Clasical

In term of classical philosophy the two towering pillars are Aristotle and Plato, of which Plato is in my opnion the greater. I think it is important now at this stage in our cultural history that more peolpe take time to read these works as they are the founding concepts on which westren civilisation and science are based. I think this is particularally true now as there has been an upsurge in "new age" philosophy and an influx of watered down eastren philosophy, usually peddeled in self help books or psudeo phiolosophical texts.

Dont get me wrong here , I'm all for eastren philosophy and for new ideas and new ways of thinking, but not at the cost of neglecting the richness of Europes own cultural and philosophical heritage, lest we, as Shakespear put it "forget the ladder by which we did accend"

The works I've studied most by these two old boys are..

Plato: The Republic

Covers all the big stuff. The nature of existance, veil of perception, the right to rule and the nature of quality or the form of the good. At the very heart of the work is the quest for the nature of justice and what it means.

Aristotle: Ethics

Modern

Russell: Problems in Philosophy

Bertrand Russell gives an overview of the current state of philosophy (in 1912) and points out some of the weakness in modern thinking. What appers at first glance to be a small book of philosophy pass notes turns out to be one of the best peices of critical reasoning in the 20th century. I mean who can ask for a better opening line then "Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?".

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