Status Updates From The History of Philosophy

This book is taking years off my life

I dont find this book particularly conductive to understanding philosophy. Perhaps its simply a skill issue but I feel like I'm walking with a lot more names and a knowledge of the peoples history but not a particularly solid understanding of the actual philosophies

I think the issue with this book is that it has no solid way. The train of thought or the the reasoning behind the logic doesn't flow and i feel like im just being blasted with information

I think interest in the topic is really carrying through the book, I dont find that the author particularly generates that interest with the exception of a few cases

Probably a victim of bad ancient sourcing, but a lot of the presocratian philosophers have a very inconsistent and jumbled kind of feeling in their descriptions

Ludwig Wittgenstein is more creative than a lot of these other so-called philosophers.