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- This product had a total of 12 reviews as of our last analysis date on Nov 8 2019.
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The result is a book about philosophy not of philosophy
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By the end of the book the reader’s understanding is enriched and one can appreciate more fully baggini’s early comments on the weaknesses inherent in western philosophy and by extension in western democracy ‘the problems of western democracy are a kind of allegory for the problems of western philosophy
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Its pursuit of the clear distinction between true and false creates a default eitheror mindset
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I particularly enjoyed the section on pragmatism which covers american philosophy
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The chapter also has a contemporary relevance to it as baggini towards the end of it links american pragmatism to contemporary politics
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
In an earlier chapter on secular reason he does the same when discussing recent research on the human genome project
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This is a much better approach than covering individual philosophers with snippets of text as many modern books do leaving the reader in the dark due to the lack of elaboration presented in the text
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