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The Philosopher's Apprentice (Hardcover)

by James Morrow (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson (13 Mar 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0297853430
  • ISBN-13: 978-0297853435
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.6 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 694,676 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"a studiedly outrageous new satire" (Ed Lake THE TIMES )

"a dazzling new novel about morailty.. James Morrow has created an outlandish and irresistible comedy of manners looking at humanity, philosophy and ethics." (Lindsay Jones PRESS ASSOCIATION )


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After crashing and burning during his PhD viva, Mason Ambrose is offered a large amount of money to come to the Isla de Sangre to instruct the daughter of wealthy Edwina Sabachtani. He is to use his knowledge as a philosopher to instil a conscience, a moral compass, in Edwina's daughter Londa following a diving accident which has supposedly destroyed her sense of right and wrong. Mason happily instructs her in schools of thought, from the stoics to the epicureans. But it is when he introduces her to the Beatitudes that the seeds of a rampaging sense of justice are sown and Londa becomes determined that the meek really shall inherit the earth! She becomes something of a 'celebrity saint' but then she takes her crusade too far, kidnapping a boat full of wealthy industrialists. A funny, tongue in cheek but also thought-provoking novel from the author of THE LAST WITCHFINDER that asks important questions about what makes us human and how we makes choices in a complex world.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Persistence pays off, 28 May 2008
This is the story of Londa, a clone without a moral compass, whom the Philospher has been brought to a tropical island paradise to "fix". It starts slowly, with possibly too many exerpts from the great philosphers, but bear with it. It soon turns into a fascinatingly bizarre and unpredictable combination of scifi and morality tale, with love both requited and unrequited (well, you'll have to read the book to understand that) as well. And the plot and the characters grows more and more complex, but I can't reveal how without giving away too much of the story. It helps to have some understanding of ethical philosophy, but it isn't essential. Its a book that gets better and better as you read on, although I felt a little deflated by the denouement. Nevertheless, its a classic-in-the-making and far better than Sophie's Choice despite the latter's hype.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A fantastic book.., 12 May 2009
By Mr. M. B. Watson "DragonDrop" (Harrogate, North Yorkshire United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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What a remarkable book "The Philosopher's Apprentice" by James Morrow is.

Not to be perturbed by it's rather docile cover illustration which conjured up a in my mind something between chick lit and a kids book I was captivated by the time I'd finished the first few pages.

Until reading this book, I was, in the diction of a philosopher 'Tabla rasa', or without knowledge of most of the base concepts of philosophy.

In the essence of something akin to TV's 'LOST' the environment of a seemingly uninhabited tropical island was the stage. Further to the LOST setting, the story unfurled several of the islands oddities and secrets as the young Philosophy drop out set about his task of giving an amnesic girl on the island a Moral Compass.

Darwin verses the rest of the world played a strong part in the sub plot to this book, where the author draws on examples, exercises and anecdotes from the world of phillosophica and without thinking too hard, I'd gathered a great insight into 'the best bits' of some of the greats - Aristotle, Socrates, Plato and Epicurus as well as some of the more up to date great thinkers such as Heidegger and Leibniz. 20th Century heads such as Kierkegaard and Nietzsche also had quite a chunk of beutifully crafted ink dedicated to their cause. Some of the basic (but fascinating) principals of philosophy were also quite neatly woven into the take - things such as Rationalism, Stoicism and a bunch of other ism's to boot. I'd say - if you like the sound of a fantastic un-putdownable book that's expanding your knowledge of Philosophical thinking without being a dullard brain ache, get it got!
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