Agnes Callard
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first heard Jul 2009
last heard Jun 2020
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So that would be my number one suggestion is find some kind of peer group.
and talk philosophy with them.
Or like ideally meeting in person, but there are other formats possible too.
I actually did start with Kant.
I uh I went to the Barnes and Noble I was thinking about that.
Barnes and Noble and I read and I bought every book that was in the little philosophy section and uh I read through them in chronological order and when I got to Kant I mean I did keep going 'cause I read Rawls and Nozick and stuff, but when I got to Kant I just thought this is true.
And I was actually confused why they continued philosophy after that 'cause I thought he'd gotten all the answers correct.
And uh
I went around quoting Kant and kind of preaching Kant for a number of years until I got to college and I learned that I was not the first person to really discover him, which was disappointing.
Um
But I was doing high school debate and so I had people to talk about it with and people to spout Kant at.
That was crucial.
I think I wouldn't have uh gotten so engaged with it if I hadn't had that.
As for the history of philosophy,
Uh yeah, I think it's really important.
Um and one way to think about it is these are the philosophical texts that have stood the test of time.
So they tend to be pretty good.
Um you know, if we've preserved them for a couple thousand years, like there's probably something in them.
They they're like a good bet.
Um but some of them are obscure and opaque, and so at least for your first thing, you know, you might want to choose something like a Platonic dialogue.
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