system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
How to move past "pop-philosophy' to actually understanding serious and legitimate philosophical ideas/works?

I just watched a video critiquing Sam Harris's "The Moral Landscape". I had no idea how inept "intellectuals" like Jordan Peterson and Sam Harris are when it comes to talking about philosophy. I am mostly interested in moral philosophy and as of now I generally identify myself as a Stoic, but I feel like i'm missing something. I want to dive deeper into existentialist ideas, but I want to do it properly. I have no idea what post modernism is considering Peterson seems to be way off with his interpretation of it. I don't understanding the difference between analytic vs continental philosophy even after researching a bit on it. I guess my question is, how do I study philosophy "properly" so I can come to understand these ideas and answer this question and better be able to call out weak pseudo philosophy when I see it?
gpt
Takes courses in it, read books about it, listen to podcasts about it -- that kind of stuff.

For instance, if you're interested in ethics, then a natural place to begin would be with an introductory text on ethics, like Shafer-Landau's *The Fundamentals of Ethics*.