Going Deep with Aaron Watson
  • Home
  • Podcast
    • Top Shows
    • Show Notes
  • Summit
  • Hire Me to Speak
  • Join
  • Start Here

This Book Will Make You Think - Book Review

7/22/2015

Comments

 
This Book Will Make You Think - Book Review

By: Alain Stephen


Life Skills: 4 out of 5

Entertaining: 4 out of 5
Picture
Many of us have taken a philosophy class or two when we were at university. It was either a droning, mandatory lecture or an enlightening respite from our scheduled major-specific courses. I took two philosophy classes, Intro to Logic and Political Philosophy, and regret not taking more.

The topic is incredibly intellectually stimulating and offers fresh perspectives on a number of different matters; like religion, love, work and death. This Book Will Make You Think does an excellent job of covering an extremely range of philosophers and their philosophies. Touching classics like Socrates and Plato alongside modern minds like Camus, Dawkins, and Einstein. This book, along with The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell offer an excellent opportunity to dip your toe into heavier philosophical works.

Each mind is represented by one of their most famous quotes, followed by a three to six page summary of their life, writings and philosophical framework. In just over 200 pages, I was enlightened on some new philosophies and inspired to learn more. I have moved Camus, Nietzsche, Lao Tzu and Marcus Aurelias to the top of my list of reading material for the coming months. I strongly recommend giving this a read.

Who should read this; Those who are interested in dipping their toes into the world of philosophical writing without the intensive, hyper-focused requirement of analyzing a specific individual work. Anyone considering a philosophy degree or looking to use their mind on a different wavelength than usual.

Who should skip it; Individuals are unwelcoming towards views and perspectives that differ from their own. Philosophy nerds looking for more than three pages on an given philosopher. Stephen is clearly more interested in breadth over depth.

Interesting tidbit; For all you Instagrammers out there, Susan Sontag, one of the few women cited in the book, had a great insight on photography and its effect on human experience. The “consequence of a super-abundance of visual material” represents a danger for humans and society. “Children experience things through photograph prior to actually encountering them in reality and as a consequence, memory becomes a memory of encountering the visual image, not a memory of the authentic sensations of the experience.


Buy it here
Comments

    Topics

    All
    Ballers
    Basketball
    Book Review
    Christopher Hitchens
    Commencement
    Content
    Credit
    C-SPAN
    Digital Content Curator
    Dwayne Johnson
    Facebook
    Freebooting
    Gary Vaynerchuk
    Gift Giving
    Gratitude
    Hip Mobility
    Holidays
    How To Guide
    Human Optimization
    Job Hunting
    Kickstarter
    Kobe Bryant
    Links
    Lobbying
    Love
    Money
    Movie Trailer
    Naps
    Networking
    New Music
    New Year
    Optimism
    Osama Bin Laden
    Paris
    Personal Development
    Personal Finance
    Podcast
    Podcasts
    Polyphasic Sleep
    Purple Cow
    Questions
    Reading
    Retirement
    Rise And Grind
    Robert Smith
    Self-experimentation
    Seth Godin
    Shopping
    Sleep Experiment
    Squatting
    Survey
    Thrival
    Trump
    Ultimate Frisbee
    Video
    Wantrepreneur

    If you want to support this blog, buy your Amazon products through this link.

    Archives

    August 2020
    December 2018
    December 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015

    RSS Feed

    View my profile on LinkedIn

Subscribe

iTunes
​
Spotify
Stitcher
YouTube

Details

About
Top Episodes
Going Deep Summit

LOGISTICS

Contact
How to Support
Privacy Policy
Terms of Use
© COPYRIGHT 2020. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
  • Home
  • Podcast
    • Top Shows
    • Show Notes
  • Summit
  • Hire Me to Speak
  • Join
  • Start Here