What's an approachable way to start reading philosophy?

I was really hoping some people read here and would give recommendations, instead I've fallen for a bait hole completely exposing my straggy interests for everyone to see and laugh at.

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Start with Nihilism because it's works are very direct and you'll either love it (rope if this is the case) or be disgusted with it in a specific way that'll breadcrumb your way to criticisms from other schools of thought. Put off self described political philosophy as long as possible for obvious reasons.

This is a lecture series that I liked a lot. It's about the major philosophers of the western world. It's really approachable for people who haven't done any philosophy before.

After I watched that series, I was able to find authors whose ideas I found particularly interesting: Nietzsche, Stirner, Wittgenstein, Quine, etc. That said, I'm sure you'll find other people of interest. Philosophy runs the gamot from applied math to what is basically theology, so don't worry if you don't read everything.

First you'll need to dye your hair green and cut your peepee off.

Then read Plato, read Descartes, and optionally read Kuhn so you can dunk on all the science worshiping bitches.

Don't read Hegel, he's shit, in my family we have a saying "Ta gueule, Hegel", it rhymes in French.

Also don't read anything past the 18th century really. Philosophy was solved by then.

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Start with Plato's Republic and then read Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra. Plato is foundational to western philosophy and Nietzsche invalidated most philosophers so that's a good way to dive into philosophy.

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Use this as a reference, it's an incredible good resource for putting things into a digestible form. Only actual academics are allowed to contribute or alter it and has to pass a board. It's wikipedia for philosophy but good.

https://plato.stanford.edu/

If you want to read philosophy, go to the gym.

Go in this order: the Old Testament, Plato, Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, the New Testament, Saint Augustine, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Descartes, Kant, Machiavelli, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Crowley, Evola, C.S. Lewis, Kaczynski

Read the book The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell. After that read his History of Western Philosophy. I would recommend that over reading any primary sources at first.

Start with the most basic stuff from Plato: https://archive.org/details/defenceofsocrate0000plat_p0c0

You read that Oxford classics book on the presocratics/sophists then you read Plato. Order of Plato doesn't matter much if you're willing to go back and reread important stuff. If you want an order spoonfed to you I will shill this guy https://www.plato-dialogues.org/tetralog.htm

After Plato and the imporant presocratics you read whatever you want as long as you put in some effort to know what you need to know beforehand (i.e. you would do well to read Aristotle before Leibniz. This is information you can find online very easily or ask /lit/)

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/4chanlit/images/f/fa/Philosophy_Project_1.pdf/revision/latest?cb=20181125223922

Aristotle, Aquinas, Ayn Rand. Nothing else.

His test results were 100% stragginosis, and a partial Tardination of the Brain Ganglia. The boards verdict is repeated quadrasperg alignments.

Start off with Wittgensteins Tractatus. Its a short read

Read Sophie's World. Very approachable (it's basically for kids) and gives a decent overview of the oldest schools of thought

I read it a very long time ago and may be wrong

Read a biography first because it will tell you about their lives and what shaped them and will give you further direction as what to read next.