Philosophical reading

[liam]

I'm not a fan of Plato, there's a lot lost in dialogues and his ideas,

That's fine, I was simply answering the OP; as a first year undergraduate, Plato was revelation of lucidity to me.. In my opinion if one is going to read philosophy,one should start with Plato.

But then, I make no claims of being a serious formal philosopher,merely an old bloke who thinks about stuff. Sometimes I'm on the money,often not.

And answer it you did, quite well at that, I would never criticise anyone for reading Plato, there is a lack of conscientiousness of philosophy nowadays and it's truly saddening. I had similar feelings when initially reading Kantian moral philosophy, a true revelation for my sense of self.

A philosopher is nought but a lover of wisdom, if you can think critically and logically on any topic then, in at least some small part, I would consider you a philosopher, even if not by your own volition. I don't know, I've seen very little where you've been off the money

Have you ever heard of a book called "Sophie's World"?

Well

Sophie's world was a good skim-through as a history as well, all commendable stuff.

I have, and I am a big fan Gaarder set a hard task and accomplished it, all props