Why Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is on my shelf, I'll never know. That and Alvin Plantinga's Warranted Christian Belief. I wish I could understand the philosophy contained as easily as I could name drop. Ha.
Instead I am settling for Sophie's World which is philosophy for dummies, really. It's a delightful novel that manages to cram 3000 years of philosophical history into a few hundred pages. Sophie Amundsen receives letters from a mysterious philosophy teacher who asks her the tough questions that great thinkers have been trying to answer for thousands of years and explains the conclusions they came to. Through it all, you're forced to come to grips with the ideas yourself. It's my form of brain training for the moment. After this, I will return to an anthology I bought at my favourite book store which selects some interesting excerpts for me to read from everyone from Plato to Nietzsche. Here's hoping I can wrap my head around it.
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