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Books

Ultimate Questions by Bryan Magee

Grant Sterling asks some immediate questions about Ultimate Questions.

Bryan Magee’s Ultimate Questions (2016) is a thought-provoking and interesting book with some strong passages, but in the end we still have many questions, and fewer answers.

Magee apparently wishes to be known as the great agnostic philosopher. The flavor of his agnosticism can be seen in this passage, which provides a good summary of this book:

“The unknowable and unconceptualizable spill over into our empirical world. We live amongst them all the time. We are mysteries to ourselves, and to one another.

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