{"id":6552,"date":"2016-11-03T22:03:18","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T03:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6552"},"modified":"2016-11-04T13:17:03","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T18:17:03","slug":"and-i-dont-even-agree-with-lots-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6552","title":{"rendered":"AND I DON&#8217;T EVEN AGREE WITH LOTS OF IT!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I don&#8217;t remember being this engrossed in a book for some time.\u00a0 This has been a good year with a number of wonderful reads, but this one is special.\u00a0 And I don&#8217;t even agree with lots of it!<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here is my review: <\/strong><span class=\"a-size-base review-text\" data-hook=\"review-body\"><strong>John Kaag is a philosopher, but don\u2019t let that scare you away from his writing, at least not with this book.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>American Philosophy: a Love Story<\/em> is remarkable twin tour of a long abandoned library and the human heart. Kaag is a candid diagnostician of his own interior life with all its complexities and contradictions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I\u2019ve been reading some of Kaag\u2019s interlocutors for some time, especially Ralph Waldo Emerson. As a Christian, I disagree with much of what Emerson wrote, but he makes me wrestle with important issues in ways that make me a better Christian\u2026at least a better thinking Christian.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kaag is vulnerable about his own personal struggles and path to happiness. Like Emerson, I don\u2019t agree with Kaag\u2019s philosophy of life, but reading about his pilgrimage to greater sanity was fascinating and time well spent.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This is a brilliantly conceived and exceedingly satisfying read. If scholars like Kaag wrote more books like this one there would be a whole lot more interest in philosophy!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I think a wonderful movie could be made from this book\u2026at least a well-crafted documentary.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Philosophy-Story-John-Kaag\/dp\/0374154481\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Philosophy-Story-John-Kaag\/dp\/0374154481<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?attachment_id=6553\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6553\" src=\"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/photo2-copy-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"photo2-copy\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t remember being this engrossed in a book for some time.\u00a0 This has been a good year with a number of wonderful reads, but this one is special.\u00a0 And I don&#8217;t even agree with lots of it! Here is my review: John Kaag is a philosopher, but don\u2019t let that scare you away from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,12,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-history","category-book-review","category-philosophy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6552"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6560,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6552\/revisions\/6560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}