Best books to learn Philosophy, in order

Philosophy rewards sequence: a good history and a few clear introductions make the primary works far less forbidding. A strong path moves from survey, to the major traditions, to reading a handful of originals closely.

Reading paths for philosophy

How to learn Philosophy

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Popular philosophy books

After virtueAlasdair C. MacIntyre · 1981

ThinkSimon Blackburn · 1999

Dialogues concerning natural religion, the posthumous essays, Of the immortality of the soul, and Of suicide, from An enquiry concerning human understanding of miraclesDavid Hume · 1998

Preliminary studies for the "Philosophical investigations"Ludwig Wittgenstein · 1958

The Conscious MindDavid J. Chalmers · 1996

UtilitarianismJohn Stuart Mill · 1863