The Big Questions: How Philosophy Can Change Your Life

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Summary: i really like this book
Review: having only read half of this book i can still say that these reviews make no sense to me (being way too negative). This book is not just a guide to philisophy it is also a guide to how to live your life. In doing the latter it is a phenominal help to any rational and intelligent person. Half way through the book i have already taken some of marinoff's advise and, surprising to me, numerous people have already commented how much happier i seem. I guess the question should really be whether or not you are willing to face the bigger issues in your life. if you are, this book will help. if not, look at psychology and fixate on the micro-issues. What can i say, i really like the book?

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Summary: yikes
Review: Once in a great while in my reading, I come across a gem, and Chapter 2 of Lou Marinoff's new book is just one such! It is the best summarization of ethics for the layman, you might say, that I have come across. The distinction between ethical relativism and meta-ethical relativism was especially nicely done.

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Summary: yikes
Review: This book is a disaster. It's written apparently (or ghost-written, since someone else seems to have had to reorganize and make it intelligible) by someone with a PhD in philosophy, but it reads more like someone with a specialty in new age psychology or something like that, since there's little real philosophy to sink your mind into. If a book is an entity that has a beginning, middle, and end, then this doesn't qualify as a book, since it doesn't seem to have an ending, but instead just seems to come to a dead halt, I guess the author realizing that he had nothing to say. I sure hope people who read this don't come away thinking this is in any way what philosophy is all about, who that people who get PhDs in philosophy typically write such tripe.

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Summary: New Title, Same Book!
Review: This book is the paperback edition of "The Big Questions" by Marinoff. This MINOR DETAIL is not mentioned in the description. If you have the hardback of The Big Questions, DON'T ORDER THIS BOOK! The original is an interesting read, and deserves 3 stars. The big question really is: Why the title change?

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Summary: i really like this book
Review: This book is the paperback edition of "The Big Questions" by Marinoff. This MINOR DETAIL is not mentioned in the description. If you have the hardback of The Big Questions, DON'T ORDER THIS BOOK! The original is an interesting read, and deserves 3 stars. The big question really is: Why the title change?