
We have spent the last year studying all the chapters in Brian Magee’s book, The Great Philosophers. Each chapter has required one month’s close study followed by a two-hour seminar. Soon, we will choose a new book. But just before we do – before we leave the study of the conversations in Magee’s book – I have chosen a photograph (the one shown above) to suggest what it is like to get going with philosophy – especially through the mode and mood of dialogue.