Duunyia asked:

Well my question is simple but I don't think it is easy to answer. How can a person become a
philosopher? If so, I do want to become one. But how?

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This is a very good question. Recently I heard someone suggest that if we knew how to be a
philosopher, that would be the end of philosophy. The point is that being a philosopher is a process of
becoming one.

I think that you will find that in some ways you already are a philosopher — especially since you are
asking questions like this. You are a philosopher any time you think about the fundamental questions
of life that have no easy answer (or no answer at all). Why are we here? What kinds of beings are
we? What's morally right? What is beauty? and there are many more.

But to be a philosopher, you need to think about them not in a way that would give you an immediate
answer that you would immediately be satisfied with. You have to look for reasons for your answers
and for the things that you believe, and to ask more questions.

To see how philosophers think, it might be helpful to read some philosophy. Try Plato, for a start.

You become a philosopher by reading philosophy and thinking about what you have read in a
disciplined and rigorous way. This means you try not to take things for granted (of course, it's
impossible not to take anything for granted, but at least you need to be clear about what you are
assuming) but look for reasons and justifications. Eventually, you will come to your own idea about
how one becomes a philosopher.

Alya Diarova

I'd say you must be one already, because philosophers are people who ask simple questions which
are not easy to answer.

Tim Sprod