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Books

Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life by John Gray

We follow mammal’s search for meaning, as Mark Vorobej savages John Gray’s book of impractical cat philosophy.

What can we learn from cats about how we should live our lives? Quite a lot, apparently, if we follow the inspiring lead of John Gray in his highly original study, Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life (2020).

Humans, according to Gray, are inherently anxious and miserable creatures who are often driven mad by nearly constant despair and an unconquerable fear of death (pp.93-95). As reflexively self-conscious and therefore conflicted and ‘self-divided’ souls (p.35), unhappiness is our natural state and, to quote Blaise Pascal, ultimately “nothing can console us.

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