My approach to philosophy is to essentially choose a masterpiece and study only that masterpiece in depth, with secondary academic texts. His list takes too long, and my life is too short to read a bunch of fluff.
The books I have studied in depth are:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche
The Republic by Plato
A Critique of Pure Reason by Kant
The Phenomenology of the Spirit by Hegel
Life is so short, read nothing but the cornerstones (this may not be that) of western thought.
A great author for secondary texts is Stanley Rosen. He presents the material in a way that captures my imagination, and makes the philosophy understandable for a lay man.
I would also argue, that for most serious texts, if you arent reading them with a guide (in my case often multiple), then you are wasting your time.
The books I have studied in depth are:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche
The Republic by Plato
A Critique of Pure Reason by Kant
The Phenomenology of the Spirit by Hegel
Life is so short, read nothing but the cornerstones (this may not be that) of western thought.
A great author for secondary texts is Stanley Rosen. He presents the material in a way that captures my imagination, and makes the philosophy understandable for a lay man.
I would also argue, that for most serious texts, if you arent reading them with a guide (in my case often multiple), then you are wasting your time.