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Socrates cafe.
written by Julie R. Neidlinger 1 comments link this postI so wanted to like the book.
The cover was entrancing.
Socrates Cafe: A fresh taste of philosophy, by Christopher Phillips, should have been my perfect book. I love questions. I never have answers. When I teach Sunday School, it's 95 percent questions. I throw them out, one after another. I rarely state anything when I teach, whether it's an art class or otherwise. Questions. I would love to sit around with some people in a coffee house* and just talk deep stuff and ask questions and bat around theories and leave with more questions than on arrival.
This is, again, because I have very few answers.
Jesus answered in questions.
The Socratic Method is great for lovers of questions. Questions, the great teacher. Questions, the friend and lie-detector of those who despise fake know-it-all arrogance. Questions, water for the intellectually parched. Questions, the friend of those who don't like being told what to do. Questions, the friend of those who won't take an answer as the final answer, but as a spring board to another question. Questions, oxygen for the curious.
And this book? A friend of sleep. I can't get past the first 50 pages. I've tried three successive times.
Why?
Links:
- Socrates Cafe online: Philosopher.org
- Socrates Cafe Meetup
- Socrates Cafe MN
If you want the book, I'll send it to you. Just email me your mailing address. Maybe you can get to page 51.
* I hate coffee. I'd be having hot chocolate, the drink of the gods.
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1 Comments:
I finished it last week. It's not the most page-turner book I've read but it's one of the most informative c: I liked it actually. I think participating an actual dialog would be more exciting, but I have to settle with the book since we don't have that kind of activity around here.
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June 29, 2008 7:11 PM
