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Have you ever read The Story of B? Would you be able to read it without trying to argue against it simply because it contradicts your raison d’etre?
by projektfu 6y ago
Have you ever read The Story of B? Would you be able to read it without trying to argue against it simply because it contradicts your raison d’etre?
- estsauver 6y agoI haven’t, but definitely do read things from outside my view point pretty regularly. I tend not to find fiction compelling for settling empirical questions though, so I’m likely to pass on reading this for the same reason I have passed on reading atlas shrugged. The best way to convince me of something is generally non fiction. (To give a few examples of books that have changed my mind, I was a very conservative libertarian growing up in the school of Nozick, but ended up being much more liberal as a result of reading Foucault and his rather compelling recasting of how power dynamics work. I found Peter Singer, Nussbaum and Sen to all be compelling enough writers to basically convince me of what I should spend my life doing. If you have suggestions for science based books, I’d love to read them, but I find religious fiction generally leaves me unmoved and uninterested.)
- projektfu 6y agoIt’s not religious fiction. It’s more a collection of essays (or lectures, organized in the back of the book) with a sort of thriller storyline in the novel to make the reading more fun and explain better how the narrator is reacting to the lectures. But you could get a lot out of it by simply reading the appendix, which contains the arguments.