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The Philosopher's Apprentice
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Rowel Leung
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Don
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“To say this book is interesting and thought provoking might be an understatement. I really think what one gets out this book will depend on what you are looking for. The premise of the novel starts out simple enough, a philosophy graduate student who torpedoes his opportunity to get his Ph.D., finds himself recruited by a billionaire scientist to come to a remote island to tutor her daughter; specifically, she provides that her daughter has been in a horrific accident that has eliminated her sense of right and wrong, and she is thus in need of moral re-education.
Obviously, while the philosopher Mason Ambrose is tutoring about ethics and all the various schools (Kant, Aristotle, Utilitarianism, etc. - philosophy majors like me will eat it up), the plot unravels more to realize that this girl was in no accident. What follows, ironically enough, raises serious questions about the ethics involved in scientific, particularly genetic, research and application.
Following this, the plot unravels into the even more absurd or weird, depending on your point of view, and provides a scathing satirical comment on certain aspects of our society, and its ability or lack thereof to apply certain ethical principles we accept in theory in our actual policies and actions. If one accepts that Morrow is providing satire for discussion, I imagine one will enjoy the book immensely (as I did, but also in part because of the plethora of philosophy references). If one is looking for a novel commenting on the realities of our modern society, I imagine one will be disappointed as the novel's plot would end up too absurd, too distant from reality to be accepted.
Thus, if one likes philosophy and satire, this is a good read. If one doesn't, best to probably stay away from this particularly novel.”
Casie
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About James Morrow
Born in 1947, James Morrow has been writing fiction ever since he, as a seven-year-old living in the Philadelphia suburbs, dictated “The Story of the Dog Family” to his mother, who dutifully typed it up and bound the pages with yarn. This three-page, six-chapter fantasy is still in the author’s private archives. Upon reaching adulthood, Jim produced nine novels of speculative fiction, including the critically acclaimed Godhead Trilogy. He has won the World Fantasy Award (for
and
), the Nebula Award (for “Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge” and the novella
), and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (for the novella
). A fulltime fiction writer, Jim makes his home in State College, Pennsylvania, with his wife, his son, an enigmatic sheepdog, and a loopy beagle. He is hard at work on a novel about Darwinism and its discontents.
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