Good literature about philosophy?

answers1: This is a choice question -- my congratulations. I
understand your meaning; but I think what makes great literature great
is that it maintains a philosophical outlook. The difference between
literature (True Literature) as opposed to mere melodrama is that the
latter simply tells a story, while the former has a point to make. It
gives thematic unity to the story, characters and events which
transcend the mere plot, and forces us to recognize that these people
and things have a greater importance, and thus, are symbolic
representations of fundamental human strivings. Consider the novels of
Dostoevsky, the plays of Shakespeare, the works of Camus, etc. These
are all people who went beyond story-telling to give us a glimpse of
the human condition. They were, to coin a phrase, "Literary
Philosophers;" and that is precisely why their works have endured. The
fundamentals of the human condition do not change -- and thus, those
who give us a philosophical understanding of human motives and
motivations are guaranteed immortality. Hope this helps. Cheers.
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answers3: Hermann Hesse's collection of literature is well worth a look.
answers4: go through some self-help books and read "Alchemist" by
Paulo coelho. <br>
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or join book community sites
answers5: If I was a Prof. of Phil., I would start my students with
the Syntopicon, because it takes the "topics" about which philosophers
wrote, and divides its short chapters that way. You don't get confused
about who said what, because who said what ABOUT what is all in one
short chapter. <br>
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If you tell your teacher/prof you've read the Syntopicon, you'll blow
his/her socks off. It is the best selling anthology of philosophy ever
written, because it breaks the subject into "topics". Hence, the
Syntopicon. <br>
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It's so much easier to see what all the great thinkers said about a
topic, then move on to the next, as opposed to trying to read
comparisons of philsophies or philosophers. <br>
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But you will only find it in the library, because it's part of a huge
collection of books called The Great Ideas of the Western World. The
Syntopicon is volumes II and III. <br>
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Each chapter is only about 12 pages long, so you are not bogged down
by too much information. But you will certainly be way ahead of other
students who won't even know what the topics are. <br>
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Angel; Animal; Aristocracy; Art; Astronomy; Beauty; Being; Cause;
Chance; Change; Citizen; Constitution; Courage; Custom and Convention;
Definition; Democracy; Desire; Dialectic; Duty; Education; Element;
Emotion; Eternity; Evolution; Experience; Family; Fate; Form; God;
Good and Evil; Government; Habit; Happiness; History; Honor;
Hypothesis; Idea; Immortality; Induction; Infinity; Judgment; Justice;
Knowledge; Labor; Language; Law; Liberty; Life and Death; Logic; Love;
Man; Mathematics; Matter; Mechanics; Medicine; Memory and Imagination;
Metaphysics; Mind; Monarchy; Nature; Necessity and Contingency;
Oligarchy; One and Many; Opinion; Opposition; Philosophy; Physics;
Pleasure and Pain; Poetry; Principle; Progress; Prophecy; Prudence;
Punishment; Quality; Quantity; Reasoning; Relation; Religion;
Revolution; Rhetoric; Same and Other; Science; Sense; Sign and Symbol;
Sin; Slavery; Soul; Space; State; Temperance; Theology; Time; Truth;
Tyranny; Universal and Particular; Virtue and Vice; War and Peace;
Wealth; Will; Wisdom; World <br>
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"While the Syntopicon demonstrates the possibility and profit of
intellectual collaboration in the sphere of the liberal arts, the
humanities, and philosophy, it also demonstrates concretely and
vividly the reality of the great conversation [which is Philosophy]...
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"The Syntopicon answers questions simply and plainly by actually
recording the great conversation in all its concrete details. As the
name suggests, the Syntopicon is a collection of topics. These are the
themes or topics of the great conversation about the basic problems
and issues that have always confronted mankind." Wikipedia
answers6: Sophie's world was a great gather of all the currents from
antiquity to modern day philosophy, and each current were described
and given a few authors that influenced it. <br>
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how about you pick a current that you found interesting and get books
from the suggested authors ? that was the plan of the book.