How to get started in philosophy?
Philosophy seems to be one of those disciplines that seems to take many years of reading and having taken a hundred classes at the university to understand those complex philosophical ideas. Far from it, philosophy is not always a tangled mess or complex discourses that seem incomprehensible to people who are not normally interested in philosophy. Today more than ever it seems imperative to be able to understand what philosophy and critical thinking are all about. Philosophy is not complex in itself, but it makes things complex.
In every age, philosophy is one of the most accurate things in the task of understanding why things are the way they are. In fact, etymologically analyzing the word "philosophy" in its Greek origin, it comes to mean something like "love for wisdom" and although this is the most used definition, it will never lose validity. Philosophy is a perpetual curiosity about everything. Therefore, everything can be approached with philosophy, and if what you are looking for is to approach philosophy, not just any book is recommended. Because just as there are complex texts, there are others that serve as an introduction to the whole philosophical world.
So if you want to approach philosophy I will help you by giving you the tips that in my opinion are the most relevant to start in philosophy. But before starting with the tips, you have to understand that philosophy is a discipline that deals with human thought and therefore has historically recorded human thought in a chronological order, so it is always better to start with what we can say are the first steps of philosophy.
These are the tips to start in philosophy
First tip: Start by approaching the pre-Socratics, the philosophers who founded the philosophical thought and who chronologically lived before Socrates, I am talking about Thales of Miletus, Anaximenes, Anaximander, Parmenides, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Democritus, among others.
Second tip: You can read the book "Sophie's World" written by Jostein Gaarder.
Third tip: Look for audiovisual content through RRSS such as YouTube, there is a lot of material that helps those who start with philosophy.
Fourth tip: Do not start reading philosophy from contemporary authors, as these handle a language that can confuse rather than enlighten.
Fifth tip: Look for philosophy textbooks, as these are presented as an introduction to philosophical thought.
With these five tips you can enter the world of philosophy without difficulty, later I will share more material related to philosophy. Thank you for your time reading this post. I hope you find it very useful. If you have any doubt let me know, I will help you as long as I am at my disposal.
