We should all treat ourselves to the occasional stroll through the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:

http://plato.stanford.edu/

It's an easy way to get at accessible yet reasonably thorough discussions of many matters important to those of us who rant here on the forum as if we have all the answers and know all there is to know. In truth, the best we can usually muster are rough and poor approximations served up with a great deal of faith or conviction. That's okay, it's human nature. We need approximations and forced certainty. But it's nice to be able to occasionally dig deeper into these questions that are so important to us, to see the centuries of thought that have gone into them, developing the problems without managing to lay everything to rest, and appreciate that there's always more to the story than we're compelled to believe (no matter what side we usually choose to take).

The less abridged story is richer and better. Sometimes it's more rewarding to approach life as a philosopher rather than as a politician, a cultist, a sports fan, etc