Like other disciplines - let's think, for example, of history - philosophy suffers the sad fate of being a subject immediately connected to school , and therefore to study, to questions. Philosophy, on the other hand, is a word of Greek origin which means " love of knowledge ". By its nature it investigates, questions, clarifies and reflects in an indefatigable search for the truth : a single path with many voices that winds through the millennia.
Fine words, one has to say, it's a pity that this path includes the study of tomes and tomes that certainly don't invite relaxation and don't give the idea of being even too much fun.
Francesco Pastorelli in his " 1001 quizzes on philosophy" (Newton Compton, 2022, pp. 384, also e-book) shows us, however, how to know in a less slavish way what philosophers said and thought before us on the big questions (from life to death, from God to art). In fact, it retraces philosophical knowledge through hundreds of questions (1001, to be precise), which stimulate curiosity and reasoning. Questions which from time to time are preceded by brief introductory texts and followed by a series of answers , only one of which will prove to be the right one, as you can find out by yourself by going to the end of the volume.Furthermore, next to the correct answer, you can also find the explanation of why it is correct and why instead the others are not.
Thus, answer after answer, one realizes that he has embarked on a fascinating journey in the evolution of thought , which offers ever new perspectives to look at reality from different angles. Furthermore, the final chapter is an invitation to think in the first person , putting oneself in the shoes of the great philosophers to interpret the cosmos and answer the questions that have fascinated generations of thinkers.
It will be surprising to discover how, regardless of the number of correct answers, you can learn to reason methodically, following the example of the great thinkers . All this with the addition of a pinch of fun given by the discovery of amenities and curiosities related to the world of philosophy such as "What did the nickname "Plato" given to the philosopher Aristocles by his gymnastics teacher refer to?" or "Who among Sartre, Spinoza, Rousseau and Wittgenstein at the time of the publication of his masterpiece lived on the salary of a master?" The answers? Naturally in the volume by Francesco Pastorelli.