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My University does not currently have a Philosophy Club so I am considering starting one myself. What prerequisites or challenges might exist?

How much philosophy should I myself know? I feel a slight obligation to know a little bit about everything but since that is not entirely possible, and would just result in a large amount of very surface knowledge, maybe I should instead focus on better understanding the fundamentals of philosophy so that discussion and comprehension of ideas and concepts will be quicker. Thoughts?

Below is listed the philosophies/philosophical ideas I've read/studied and the extent of my knowledge of each.
- Fundamentals of Philosophy (epistemology, ontology etc.) - middling (but then again I don't know what I don't know)
- Platonism - limited
- Stoicism - moderate-to-extensive
- Skepticism - middling (mainly Descartes related)
- Reason and Logic - middling

Potentially useful authors I've read: Dante, Dostoyevsky, Jung.

If I were to start a club, it would be sometime around the start of Semester 2 (a few months away). Before that point, I hope to have read Kierkegaard, a handful of books from the Bible and maybe some Nietzsche.

My main question is this: should I postpone the creation of a philosophy club until I have accumulated more philosophical knowledge?
gpt
Your initiation of a philosophy club shouldn't depend at all on how much philosophy you've read. If you feel like you don't know enough to start a club, there's a very high chance that that's "just" impostor syndrome. Your greatest challenge in starting a club will be attracting people and retaining them. If there's some philosophical text that you haven't read but think you should, then read that with the club!