What books/podcasts/videos do you recommend on philosophy?
Can be of any style (introductory or more comprehensive), just would be good to build up a repository on here and see who else is interested in philosophy more generally.
I find The Prince by Machiavelli fascinating, can definitely see how some leaders take his ideas to heart.
If you want to learn how to read a primary philosophical text, there’s no better place to start than Descartes’s Meditations. Besides its historical importance, all the arguments are superbly structured and make a point of not assuming anything at all (about prior readings or about the existence of things in general).
A lot of the conclusions will come off as strange or just plain wrong, but figuring out why is also a great exercise.
I definitely agree. Descartes’ Meditations was one of the first philosophical texts I read in my undergrad degree. Great introduction to the style of writing