Reviews

The Philosopher's Book of Questions & Answers: Questions to Open Your Mind by D.E. Wittkower

bucketoffish's review

3.0

The questions in this book were pretty good, though the author does admit that many of them are meant to be leading. I felt like many of the questions contained assumptions which are incompatible with a modern materialistic and scientific viewpoint, which made those passages slightly less interesting. What I mean is that sometimes you'd have questions like "If you believe X, then what does this say about situation Y?", where X may be something people commonly believed fifty or a thousand years ago. This is probably for historic reasons, as a means of introducing various philosophical trains of thought, but I didn't really like how many of the questions were specifically tailored to lead into a specific philosopher's specific philosophical contribution. This meant that I had already heard or thought about many of the questions introduced in this book. I think it would have been much more interesting to ask a bunch of new and unexplored questions, and to think about how different philosophers would have answered each question.

kyrasamtani's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

read a chapter every morning and do the questions yearly its cool to see the change