Characteristics of those who read Philosophy?

Question:What kind of people read Philosophy? What kind of characteristics would you say they have? What kind of people are they?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: What kind of people read Philosophy? What kind of characteristics would you say they have? What kind of people are they?

We are people who cannot stop asking What is Being and Becoming? What is Life? How do I know anything, let alone know something? What is Morality? What is Humanity? What is Right and what is Wrong? What is Evil? Why do we exist? Who are we? How are we different than other animals? ARE we different from other animals? What is Time? Space? Dimensions?

We think about these:

Angel; Animal; Aristocracy; Art; Astronomy; Beauty; Being; Cause; Chance; Change; Citizen; Constitution; Courage; Custom and Convention; Definition; Democracy; Desire; Dialectic; Duty; Education; Element; Emotion; Eternity; Evolution; Experience; Family; Fate; Form; God; Good and Evil; Government; Habit; Happiness; History; Honor; Hypothesis; Idea; Immortality; Induction; Infinity; Judgment; Justice; Knowledge; Labor; Language; Law; Liberty; Life and Death; Logic; Love; Man; Mathematics; Matter; Mechanics; Medicine; Memory and Imagination; Metaphysics; Mind; Monarchy; Nature; Necessity and Contingency; Oligarchy; One and Many; Opinion; Opposition; Philosophy; Physics; Pleasure and Pain; Poetry; Principle; Progress; Prophecy; Prudence; Punishment; Quality; Quantity; Reasoning; Relation; Religion; Revolution; Rhetoric; Same and Other; Science; Sense; Sign and Symbol; Sin; Slavery; Soul; Space; State; Temperance; Theology; Time; Truth; Tyranny; Universal and Particular; Virtue and Vice; War and Peace; Wealth; Will; Wisdom; World

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They are able to appeal to people of a variegated age and background. To study philosophy is to study humanity and by doing so you attain a charisma and a passion to spread and develop this passion. You cannot generalize humans and so you cannot generalize philosophers.