Write in Your Books! (or: How to Read a Philosophical Text)
A Problem: The Frustration of Reading
Your primary and regular task as a student in most introductory philosophy classes — and many other classes too — is toread. Over the course of the semester you will do a lot of reading. This poses two problems.
First, you may be daunted by theamountof reading. You simply have to trust that the professor has assigned an amount of reading that is challenging but manageable. If you make the effort and plan ahead, you should be able to handle…