“People live and die by ideas!” “You are what you think – much more than what you eat!”With encouraging words like these, I would try to persuade students in an intro course to see the study of philosophy as a help and benefit to themselves. Many did, at least for a little while, I think.Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita at Brooklyn College of The City University of New York. She is the author of Confessions of A Young Philosopher (forthcoming), which is a woman's "co...