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Philosophical Dialogues across a range of subjects, including literature, films, astrology, and history.
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Originally penned in 1978, this title is comprised of four lengthy philosophical - though not too philosophical - dialogues that investigate, from a somewhat onesided standpoint, subjects as diverse as a book collection as a 'work of art', war and peace, astrology, and historical perspectives, by which is meant the attempt to detach oneself from contemporary criteria and access historical criteria in their historical perspective - something less easy than one might suppose! Be that as it may, this is an interesting and well-written collection that, though in some respects quite dated, still manages to intrigue and even amuse the reader.
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'A Question of Belief' by John O'Loughlin
3 Aug 2011
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The author got the idea of writing a collection of dialogues in 1978 from reading the French philosopher Diderot, one of the great masters in the genre, and the results, several weeks later, were four fairly lengthy philosophical dialogues, which enabled him to continue developing the dualistic theories begun the previous year (1977) and included in both 'Between Truth and Illusion' (which contains his first ever philosophical dialogue) and 'The Illusory Truth'. Their subject-matter ranges from book collecting as an art and the morality of films to the influence of astrology on writers and retrospective perspectives on history, and although they tend, on the basis of didactic disquisition rather than mere conversation, to be a touch one-sided, they are at least broad enough to be of some interest to the general reader.
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