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.

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    1 year ago

    Wherever you start, just be careful not to get too enamored with the sense of authority that comes built into a lot of philosophical works. Many concepts read as very rhetorically sound, but when put into real world practice don’t actually produce anything useful. Philosophy is often a square frame put around a rounded, wobbly slightly-not-square universe.