Studying philosophy is studying how society thinks and how it relates to questions about existence, morality, beauty, knowledge, religion or language. In a world where technology and the digital world are on the rise, interest in this humanistic discipline seems to have declined, but the truth is that its study is, if possible, more important than ever.
Below, we present a list of the seven books that everyone should read according to several Philosophy professors from universities and institutes in Spain. You no longer need to go to class to learn the basics of history’s leading thinkers. There are free online courses, very interesting videos on YouTube or, simply, one of the literary works on this list.
Considered among the best to come from the pen of Lev Tolstoy (1828-1910), the stories collected in this volume illustrate, despite their disparity, two of the Russian author’s main concerns. Inspired by an everyday and real incident, “The Death of Ivan Ilych” strongly affects the terrifying and delayed awareness of a life badly lived. An action story, “Jadzhí Murat” exposes, however, the conflict between the simple life of the inhabitants of the Caucasus, governed by tradition and custom, and the complex life of the “civilized” Russians, to reach the apparent conclusion of that despotism, even when it wears different masks, is essentially the same everywhere.
In the swarm (Byung-Chul Han)
In In the Swarm, the South Korean philosopher and essayist Byung-Chul Han analyzes current society and how it has changed with the digital revolution. Precisely because it deals with the influence of social networks, it is a must-read to know what kind of world we are heading towards. According to the author, today’s population is an isolated mass, without any collective sense or expression.
Tao Te Ching: The Books of the Tao (Lao-Tzu)
The Books of Tao, whose authorship is attributed to the wise Lao-Tse, is a classic of Chinese philosophy probably written around the 6th century BC. This work is one of the foundations of Taoism, an ancient system of philosophy of life later converted into religion. The book allows us to understand well one of the currents of Chinese thought and, therefore, a logic completely different from that of the West.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche)
The masterpiece of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzche was written between 1883 and 1885. Thus spoke Zarathustra. A book for everyone and no one is a novel that helps understand the main ideas of Nietzscherian philosophy through a set of stories, speeches and reflections of the imagined prophet Zarathustra. He is, without a doubt, a classic which should be part of anyone’s personal library.
Penultimate days: Goods, machines and men (Santiago Alba Rico)
Published in 2016, Penultimate days: Goods, machines and men by the writer and philosopher Santiago Alba Rico is a reflection on the bipolarity of our world, on the paradoxes of capitalism from an anthropological point of view. After reading this book, the reader should have at their disposal the keys to avoid the total dehumanization of a society controlled by the market.
The danger of believing (Luis Alfonso Gámez)
It took Luis Alfonso Gámez almost two years to write The Danger of Believing, a fierce criticism of alternative medicine and spiritualism and, in general terms, misinformation. In it, the journalist collects well-documented stories of real cases that should serve as an example to illustrate the ease that human beings have to believe in falsehoods and irrational things.
British researcher and professor of Psychology, Richard Wiseman published the essay 59 seconds in 2009. Think a little to change a lot, in which the solutions proposed in the self help books and explains how they play with the minds of those who turn to them. Wiseman proposes a new way to achieve change and achieve our goals in one minute.
44 letters from the liquid world (Zygmunt Bauman)
With the aim that readers learn to distinguish what is important from what is not, the Polish sociologist and philosopher Zygmunt Bauman brings together his reflections in the epistles that make up 44 letters from the liquid world. In a world where changes are constant, life forces us to decide, for example, what type of information to pay attention to: the substantial or the irrelevant.
2023-12-28 23:27:19
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