Comments by "John Warner" (@johncrwarner) on "8 Philosophy Books You Need to Read" video.

  1. One of the earliest philosophy books I read and engaged with was A. J. Ayer's "Language, Truth and Logic" at age sixteen. It was also one of the first books where I saw flaws in the argument It marked the movement from being a sponge reader to being in dialogue with the writer and I had the Penguin/Pelican edition and the margins were scrawled over because logical positivism just destroys itself with its own arguments. My first philosophy book was "The Prince" by Macchiavelli which as a thirteen year old on a camping holiday in the Malvern Hills in England with my family was a bit bored and begged for some pocket money and got given 50 pence to buy books and a comic (this was 1976 BTW) I paid 35 pence for the George Bull translation in a Penguin Classic edition and was enthralled by it.
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