Spiritual Evolution

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Schopenhauer wrote a book titled, 'The World as Will and Idea.' I have not read it. I never read stuff like that, prefering instead to read the less intensive reviews of that kind of stuff. I am not a masochist, only curious. For example I have never read Kant. Nor have I read Aquinas. Nor Aristotle. Nor Augustine. Nor Plato. I know their fundamental positions by having read the critiques.

I have not read Berkeley, although I love his style. My knowlege of Berkely is second hand, like my 'knowlege' of the previously mentioned sages. I have never read Voltaire although I agree with him completely, more or less.

I have read Bertrand Russell, the light stuff. I have never read Principita Mathematica. Don't plan to. I am a dilettante, a butterfly, a bee. I flit from flower to flower in the summertime of my youth, my life.

I see this characteristic behavior as evolutionarily significant in the 'spiritual' realm. That is to say, I consider my taste in philosophy to be omni-beneficial to me and perhaps to you. I see this behavior as a winning spiritual evolutionary path worthy of your emulation. Otherwise why do this? Why write about it? Why not just do it and be done with it?

That is the question.