Any textbook recommendations for getting into philosophy with handholding if i'm too dumb to jump into primary sources?
Introductory logic book first.
>>24765084i learned predicate logic from discrete math, do i need other logic? recommended books?
This is quite good.
>>24765159Pic related is also very accessible and a good intro to, although the parts on Hegel and modern thought are probably skipable as an introduction.
>>24764921germans will tell you to pick up an anatomy book before anything else
>>24765159>>24765169Finally, pic related is surprisingly good as an intro because Dante has so many sources and influences and the poem makes a great vehicle for explaining them. It's worth getting on Anna's just to read the introduction because that lays out some of the core tenants of medieval thought in a very direct way.
>>24764921can't remember who was it, but a big hollywood director recently said he learned everything from these two books>D.K. Publishing - Will Buckingham - The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained (2011)>D.K. Publishing - Nigel C. Benson - The Psychology Book_ Big Ideas Simply Explained (2012)
>>24764921Working through it but kind of dense having skipped the Greeks. Wikipedia what you don't understand or need clarified.
>>24764921if you're too dumb for primary sources you're too dumb for philosophy
