Truth: A History And A Guide For The Perplexed Book

The following sums up one of his main views illustrated in this book: “We have spent so long prising ourselves out of nature and looking down on the rest of creation from an assumed height that we now find it hard to work our way back into a structure of thought which fits the structure of nature - in which the rules by which we think and live are 'fed into or derived from submerged assumptions about how the universe works'.”

The author’s anarcho-primitive ideology would perplex people than guide the perplexed. He romanticises the uneducated people with underdeveloped minds while name-calling the cultured people to be corrupted with arrogance. His effort to be politically correct severely interferes with his pursuit of detailing what truth is, what faculty was used to attain it, and how it’s regarded throughout history. And I couldn’t help but doubt throughout the first chapter what is there to be learned accurately on the subject of truth from a person whose glamourisation of the primitive worldview borders on truthlessness.