The Ship of Truth

An Illustrated Philosophical Adventure Novella

von Kirk Krutilla

120 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Mara only wants to keep the ship alive. The philosophersaboard the Aletheia want to define truth. The sea has otherplans.Across storms, fog, hunger, mirrors, monsters, pirates, burning libraries, and wounded harbors, Mara discoversthat truth is not something one person owns. It issomething tested by danger, corrected by others, andproved through action.Socrates asks fewer questions than he wants to. Diogeneslearns when silence is better than a joke. Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Marx, Nietzsche, Hume, Hypatia, bell hooks, MartinLuther King Jr., and five religious philosophers all discoverthat wisdom must become work or it is only decoration.The Ship of Truth is an illustrated philosophical adventurenovella about courage, humility, doubt, faith, justice, andthe hard labor of helping.