To be fair, sometimes the German is clearer than the English (but not always). Plato's Dialogues is a gateway for so many as they are very accessible. They are definitely in my top 3 that got me into the more professional side of philosophy. CPR is a classic of course. It sounds like you had a much more "normal" introduction to philosophy than me.
Haha...well I don't know about normal—I went to a college with a total population in the 300s—but it was definitely classical or traditional in "Great Books" sense. It seems like most Americans get a very different philosophical education that's more in the analytic tradition.
Oy! Wittgenstein in German? I can't even read him in English. Kudos to you.
My three books would be:
1. Plato's Collected Dialogues
2. Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
3. William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
#3 was hard to pick! So many contenders for that spot.
To be fair, sometimes the German is clearer than the English (but not always). Plato's Dialogues is a gateway for so many as they are very accessible. They are definitely in my top 3 that got me into the more professional side of philosophy. CPR is a classic of course. It sounds like you had a much more "normal" introduction to philosophy than me.
Haha...well I don't know about normal—I went to a college with a total population in the 300s—but it was definitely classical or traditional in "Great Books" sense. It seems like most Americans get a very different philosophical education that's more in the analytic tradition.