Very clickbaity. I agree, of course, that philosophy isn't dead, though people may have become dead to it, and that's the problem. Philosophical questions alway

Very clickbaity. I agree, of course, that philosophy isn't dead, though people may have become dead to it, and that's the problem. Philosophical questions always surface, regardless of whether the person who forms the question or makes a claim in that regard is aware that he is treading on philosophical ground. Of course, without the awareness and without the education, his philosophy is bound to be mediocre and, if it isn't blatant bullshit, a rehash of something previously explored. Those who do not study philosophy are bound to repeat its mistakes. I haven't read these books, but if the article is correct, then I find the grandiose claims that everyone's gotten all of these major philosophers wrong over the lat 2500 years (not just one or two) and that Gottlieb has properly comprehended all of them is suspect, at the very least. Worth noting is that people debate over what a given philosopher means by X all the time. While it's fine to say that a philosopher has been misunderstood in some way for centuries (and here, Aquinas stands as an example; the existential Thomists of the early 20th century made just that claim about the so-called principle of existence), the kind of broad claims being made here raise eyebrows. To understand just one philosopher thoroughly (not counting the research that goes into expanding their theories) can occupy a philosopher for a lifetime. There was one quite well known philosopher who said that he only truly "got" Aristotle in his 50s.