There's some wonderful posts here amongst the silliness, and I'm slowly digesting them. (And my new books.) Thanks.
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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
so mang, is this your first foray at all or do you have any prior knowledge of the subject at all? what's motivating you? pure curiosity? something else? i'm curious about this.
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Um, I had a gift certificate to a major book store, after 2hrs of wandering about the Art and History sections, I was a) stumped and b) out of time, so on the way out something made me stop at Philosophy. The Russell book seemed interesting, so I looked him up in the Philosophy distionary, and I just said "fuck it" and bought both.
Well, ok....that's not "it" completely.....in University there was a Philosophy class that I was in (as a mandatory Arts elective), and the teacher + subject always fascinated me. Plato et al wrote such incredibly thoughtful works literally thousands of years ago, and that fact always blew me away. Now I really genuinely do want to delve into this. And the good posts in this thread really are impressive....I have so much to learn from you learned people, hahaha.....
And, I'm having a mid-life crisis, plus a lot of stress in my life right now.
You are sorry you asked, I know.