It's impossible
You need to study a broad overview of the different fields and then choose to specialise in one of them
Otherwise you can choose to specialise in the philosophy of a certain author and the responses to that philosophers work throughout history up to this day
Philosophy is not simply reading the most important works of philosophy once and then shelving it as 'finished'
Forget the anthology nonsense, unless you only want to learn enough to impress some 4chinz posters and a couple normies. Start by defining scope, are you just interested in learning the western tradition or eastern or both? Are you just interested in completing the books and moving on or do you want to digest them and take time to think about what you have read? Are you trying to read the entire body of works by each philosopher or just their quintessential contributions? One or the other could take a couple years depending on how dedicated you are and how much time you can devote to it. Both will definitely take you a couple of years, possibly a decade if you want to get into all the known sutras and texts from the Chan masters. If you want to debate and practice philosophy, then leave IQfy and find better places to debate it, IQfy can only summon sufficient discourse on certain topics, and it clocks top of the dogpile on this website from what I have seen.
You don't "learn" philosophy, it's not an epistemic discipline like science. You just read a lot of it and hope that it magically does something for you. Most philosophers did not read most philosophers. Kant famously proclaimed that all philosophy before him was useless trash. Heidegger said that Plato destroyed philosophy and only pre-socratics were cool.
>Heidegger said that Plato destroyed philosophy and only pre-socratics were cool
He did read majority of philosophers, contemporary and old(including the middle-ages ones that many did skip). He never said "don't read Plato" you dumb ass.
>Kant famously proclaimed that all philosophy before him was useless trash. Heidegger said that Plato destroyed philosophy and only pre-socratics were cool.
Literally the only way they could say that is if they read all that philosophy themselves, you destroyed your own point
5 years will get you to have an above average knowledge if you take it slow. I only had formal education in political philosophy, so the rest of it I had to help myself. The trick is that you don't read everything by an author and you don't read just their famous works. From each major author you should have read one famous work and one lesser work(like Kant's Anthropology lectures or New Atlantis by Bacon). Also you might need some general reference books that deal with receptions of a particular author. I suggest you try to read academic articles sometimes too. They are usually boring(like comparing in particular Hegel and Nietzsche's concept of History) but are a good test if you understand the philosopher in basic context.
Several years
9-12 months with a decent anthology
Give me a decent anthology.
Which one?
Everyone.
Great Books of the Western World
Copleston's History of Philosophy
It will take me that long just to read the complete works of Plato and Aristotle
More than you have left to live.
Probably 10-15 years
Do you read like 1 page per day?
2800 years
You could read it in a matter of years but it will take about 20 before it starts to seem real to you.
It's impossible
You need to study a broad overview of the different fields and then choose to specialise in one of them
Otherwise you can choose to specialise in the philosophy of a certain author and the responses to that philosophers work throughout history up to this day
Philosophy is not simply reading the most important works of philosophy once and then shelving it as 'finished'
Forget the anthology nonsense, unless you only want to learn enough to impress some 4chinz posters and a couple normies. Start by defining scope, are you just interested in learning the western tradition or eastern or both? Are you just interested in completing the books and moving on or do you want to digest them and take time to think about what you have read? Are you trying to read the entire body of works by each philosopher or just their quintessential contributions? One or the other could take a couple years depending on how dedicated you are and how much time you can devote to it. Both will definitely take you a couple of years, possibly a decade if you want to get into all the known sutras and texts from the Chan masters. If you want to debate and practice philosophy, then leave IQfy and find better places to debate it, IQfy can only summon sufficient discourse on certain topics, and it clocks top of the dogpile on this website from what I have seen.
You don't "learn" philosophy, it's not an epistemic discipline like science. You just read a lot of it and hope that it magically does something for you. Most philosophers did not read most philosophers. Kant famously proclaimed that all philosophy before him was useless trash. Heidegger said that Plato destroyed philosophy and only pre-socratics were cool.
>Heidegger said that Plato destroyed philosophy and only pre-socratics were cool
He did read majority of philosophers, contemporary and old(including the middle-ages ones that many did skip). He never said "don't read Plato" you dumb ass.
>Kant famously proclaimed that all philosophy before him was useless trash. Heidegger said that Plato destroyed philosophy and only pre-socratics were cool.
Literally the only way they could say that is if they read all that philosophy themselves, you destroyed your own point
>Kant famously proclaimed that all philosophy before him was useless trash
Well he was right
5 years will get you to have an above average knowledge if you take it slow. I only had formal education in political philosophy, so the rest of it I had to help myself. The trick is that you don't read everything by an author and you don't read just their famous works. From each major author you should have read one famous work and one lesser work(like Kant's Anthropology lectures or New Atlantis by Bacon). Also you might need some general reference books that deal with receptions of a particular author. I suggest you try to read academic articles sometimes too. They are usually boring(like comparing in particular Hegel and Nietzsche's concept of History) but are a good test if you understand the philosopher in basic context.