{"id":5194,"count":222,"description":"Philosophy is about asking the big questions: Why are we here? How should I live my life? What is reality? A good book for beginners is A Little History of Philosophy<\/em> by Nigel Warburton<\/a>. The book starts with Socrates, who lived in the 5th century BC in Athens, and asked such probing questions he was sentenced to death by his fellow citizens. Socrates<\/a> himself never wrote a word, but his pupil Plato wrote about him. Plato's book, The Republic <\/em>(c. 375BC)<\/a>, is one the earliest and most important philosophical texts ever written.\r\n\r\nToday, good philosophy books continue to deal with the challenges we face as a society and how to better understand the world around us, whether it's problems thrown up by the latest scientific advances or the age-old question of how to live a good life. Philosophy\u2014which in ancient Greek means 'love of wisdom'\u2014also focuses on how to think, emphasizing critical thinking skills<\/a> and logic<\/a>.\r\n\r\nPhilosophers (from the 5th century BCE onwards)<\/a> | Ancient Philosophy<\/a> | Contemporary Philosophy<\/a> |Ethics and Moral Philosophy<\/a>| Atheism<\/a>| Beliefs<\/a> | Epistemology<\/a> | How to Live<\/a> | Biographies of Philosophers<\/a> | Metaphysics<\/a> |\u00a0Best New Philosophy Books<\/a>| Stoicism<\/a> | Critical Thinking Books<\/a> | Books about Existentialism<\/a> |","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/philosophy\/","name":"Philosophy Books","slug":"philosophy","taxonomy":"category","parent":0,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/5194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=5194"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=5194"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=5194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}