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Following Almond's trail-blazing philosophical odyssey
of Sophia, Exploring Philosophy, originally published in the Penguin
'self-starters' series, as plain 'Philosophy', comes the new volume, Exploring
Ethics. If the first book contained a narrative root of a seeker, Sophia,
searching out the issues with the aid of Almond's omniscient philosophical
consultant, 'Q', Exploring Ethics finds the philosophically bemused
in a metaphorical canyon surrounded by ethical (human) animals, each propounding
their own doctrine of rights and wrongs.
Imaginative and fluently written, subtly iconoclastic
in form, and in content too, perhaps, Almond's book is certain to do well
in the bookshops, if fated to be rather less welcome in some of the philosophical
citadels of academia.
Reviewed by Lisa Wang
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