Well, it's good for entertainment. After all it is a collection of jokes - arranged in their relation with different philosophical topics. However, if you have very little idea about philosophy or philosophers to start with, you wouldn't expect to learn something more.
By the way, philosophy is not philosophology - if there is such a term. It is important to distinguish the three kinds of people who all call themselves philosopher:
- Those who are knowledgeable in philosophy, i.e. they understand the theory of all the great thinkers in the history of philosophy. (For example, university professors.)
- Those who are great thinkers themselves - a rare species.
- Those who live in a philosophical way.
The sobering truth is, unfortunately, hardly anyone belongs to more than one category.
PS. For beginners, I would recommend The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant.
Em ... Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder is more interesting - but I hold the bias that Gaarder's view was sometimes biased.
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