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eWARNING!
If you think philosophy will give you all the answers to life's big questions, think again! If you think you might be better off feeding the cat or kicking a ball against your garden wall - well, so did the French philosopher Voltaire. He said - after a lot of thought - 'il faut cultiver le jardin' - we should all stop thinking so much and do sensible practical things like digging the garden.
He didn't follow his own advice though!
But if you want to know about some ancient ideas right at the beginnings of philosophy, then here's the place to begin.
Philosophy is something that, once started, you can't help doing. It's like peeling layers off an onion bulb - each layer taking you deeper down to layers and depths you hadn't known were there.
It's like eating a peach, and each bite takes you nearer to the stone, which is the absolutely brilliant, astounding thought or idea that makes your brain tingle with excitement.
It's like a space voyage, guided by the rules and knowledge of the known universe, heading towards the vast, tremendous unknown...
The Ancient Philosophers started us off on our exciting journeys of the mind, and this little ebook is dedicated to them.
