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I want to learn Philosophy. How should I start ?
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There are a lot of good resources in this thread, but nobody has mentioned the single most important part by far:
actually practice philosophy
Study is worthless if you don't engage in the practice of philosophy. Find people to debate with, preferably ones who have a formal grounding (and I mean a real debate, where you make reasoned arguments and investigate the truth of a matter, not the bullshit-flinging points game that gets popular online). Write arguments, revise them, give them to people to tear them apart.
The literature is good, but it will only teach you (a) how philosophers approach questions, (b) what arguments and counterarguments have been successful or popular, and (c) what the big questions are. If you do not practice philosophy, you will never learn philosophy; you will only learn what philosophers have said.