Just as the title says this is a VERY brief look into a few of the major philosophies throughout history. It is the CliffNotes version of Philosophy 101. But I liked it. It reminded me of several of the important themes and ideas from each of the different philosophies. Each was just in-depth enough to provide some understanding and trigger a desire to research more.

I’m giving it 3 stars because it got me out of a reading slump and it actually was an easy enjoyable read

Basically, a (very quick) overview of various branches of Philosophy, lightly touching on - amongst others - some of the following schools of thought:

What is Philosophy, and why we should care?
Aristotle
Buddhism
Confucius
Descartes (Cogito, Ergo Sum)
Stoicism
Taoism

And I've probably missed a few.

While it does it's job in admirably presenting these schools of thoughts and their various proponents, this was (perhaps necessarily) too shallow a read/listen for me. I'm fully aware, however, that that is because I have a scholastic background in studying the same!

Taking my own prejudices out of the equation: a worth-while attempt to bring the subject matter to the masses.