Geoffrey Klempner

Philosophizer's Bible Geoffrey Klempner

"IMAGINE you are Alice, in Alice in Wonderland, or Through the Looking Glass, or Dorothy in Wizard of Oz -- or Neo in 'The Matrix' (the movie script cleverly references Alice and Dorothy in the same scene). You are about to embark on a mini-adventure, which is also designed as a course of instruction (kind of, if you are willing to be instructed). Try not to anticipate. Let go, if you can. Let the ride carry you along."This book may change you. At least, that is the author's intention. It won't make you cleverer or more knowledgeable, or better at spinning arguments. But if you let it, it will give you something more precious: it will show you, or give a hint anyway, of what there is to be seen -- I mean, down there."You will see things differently -- maybe even in colours you have never experienced before. You will become suspicious of things you were never suspicious of before. Just like Descartes, you will learn to doubt things you previously never thought of doubting -- including your own precious sense of who you are." (From chapter 2)