9. How to read philosophy
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You might not think writing style matters in philosophy.  But Kwame Anthony Appiah - a philosopher who’s also a literary scholar - argues that style is crucial for understanding almost all the great philosophers. He shows how a single strange sentence from the American philosopher Quine unsettles our familiar sense of the world.  In contrast, French philosopher Montaigne’s humble style underpins his open-minded thinking.  Anthony guides us through the rewards of reading philosophy as a kind of literature.
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