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Tivadar Danka @tivadardanka · Nov 20, 2022

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Do you have any book recommendations for absolute beginners with no previous exposure into politics and philosophy?

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Isaac Faber @isaacfab00 · Nov 21, 2022

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Book Feb, 1994

Tyranny of the Majority: Fundamental Fairness in Representative Democracy

by Lani Guinier

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Curt Dodds @technotweet · Nov 20, 2022

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by Plato

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Alejandro Piad Morffis @alepiad · Nov 20, 2022

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I've read a couple of "history of philosophy" books (Bertrand Russell has a big one but it ends with him so no existentialists, structuralists, or post-modernists).

Book 1945

A History of Western Philosophy

by Bertrand Russell

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DiazRock @DiazRock2 · Nov 20, 2022

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Book 1531

by Niccolò Machiavelli

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Shudh @Shudh · Nov 20, 2022

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Book 1926

The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

by Will Durant

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Santiago Renteria @renatrigiorese · Nov 20, 2022

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Article Apr 28, 2015

Why Read Tocqueville’s Democracy in America?

by John Keane

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Carlos Jorge @CarlosJorgeRod3 · Nov 20, 2022

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Book Dec 5, 1991

by Jostein Gaarder

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