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Jacob Needleman wrote this book by weaving together information and a narrative. I found the informational aspect of it fairly standard and quite repetitive. I found the narrative flow slightly more engaging. In fact, it's the only thing that kept me reading the entire piece.
Needleman uses a philosophy class he teaches as a springboard to develop his thesis concerning why humans "can't" be good. He then drags on, trying to tease us along, by dropping redundant snippets of reasoning to make his case.
Once he finally does get to his point (that we have a hard time being good because we aren't first self-aware--we don't step back to realize we have a conscience guiding us that seems to often be separate from us), he reiterates the point over and over again.
It was an okay book, but probably could have been carried out in about 150 pages instead o0f 280.
Needleman uses a philosophy class he teaches as a springboard to develop his thesis concerning why humans "can't" be good. He then drags on, trying to tease us along, by dropping redundant snippets of reasoning to make his case.
Once he finally does get to his point (that we have a hard time being good because we aren't first self-aware--we don't step back to realize we have a conscience guiding us that seems to often be separate from us), he reiterates the point over and over again.
It was an okay book, but probably could have been carried out in about 150 pages instead o0f 280.
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