Yes! A Philosophy Shop. The following is my response to a post of which I have included the link:
Your comments and ideas resonate with me, and I applaud your mission. Yes, I beleive there is a market for a philosophy shop. To me the ideal philosophy shop would be a pub. Not just your run of the mill pub, a truly authentic European style pub (similar to many found in Great Britain albeit not limited to that region). The beverages would flow from the taps just as freely as the ideas would from our minds and mouths. You could grab a smoke filled booth with C.S. Lewis, and discuss the problem of pain as he puffed on his pipe. Pull up a stool at the bar and throw back a shot of skepticism with David Hume. At a nearby table down a stein with Wittgenstein while giving meaning to your words. All of this takes place in the philosophy shop. Maybe those great thinkers will not physically be there when the shop finally opens, but you will most likely hear their ideas and influences in the endless banter. One key ingredient that will distinguish the philosophy shop from many other supposed wisdom loving shops will be the singing. Every night one song will drown out the drinking and ideas for a few minutes,
The Philosopher's Drinking Song:
Immanuel Kant was a real pissant Who was very rarely stable.
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar Who could think you under the table.
David Hume could out-consume Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, [some versions have 'Schopenhauer and Hegel']
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.
There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya 'Bout the raising of the wrist.
Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed.
John Stuart Mill, of his own free will, On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.
Plato, they say, could stick it away-- Half a crate of whisky every day.
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle.
Hobbes was fond of his dram,
And René Descartes was a drunken fart. 'I drink, therefore I am.'
Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed, A lovely little thinker, But a bugger when he's pissed.
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