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Originally Posted by FlorenceArt
Well yes, but... isn't that a bit like saying "your daughter doesn't speak because she is mute" (famous line from a Molière play  ).
I mean, it sounds like stating the obvious and trying to pass it off as an explanation of itself. I hope that's not what the book is doing...? |
Kurtz is a philosopher. Philosophers don't state the obvious and try to pass it off as an explanation of itself; the best ones take the obvious and make it as obscure as possible.
Just kidding about that, although I do wonder about some of them!
Kurtz has a very clear and accessible style of writing. I can see how you might reach that conclusion having only read the publisher's press release, but you need to bear in mind that he didn't write that summation, and that part of the problem with writing blurbs for books of this type lies in the difficulty of encapsulating in a few words what the author has been expounding and elaborating upon for hundreds of pages; in the case of
The Transcendental Temptation, 516 pages. In the book, Paul Kurtz does far more than simply state the obvious and try to pass it off as an explanation of itself.