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Finding Our Sea Legs
Friday June 12, 2009

Sea Legs

Just a quick post this one. I’m delighted to say that my philosophy book, Finding Our Sea Legs is currently in its final edits, and should be published by the shiny, new Kingston University Press towards the end of the year. The book is about ethics, experience and storytelling, and explores how stories might be capable of giving us a way of thinking through ethical experience without recourse to the language of certainty. It also features, amongst other things – more nautical metaphors than you could ever wish for; curious tales of talking fish; a contest between Immanuel Kant and a palmwine-stealing god from Maluku, East Indonesia; and a flock of philosophical woodpeckers.

Some of the ideas have been developed over the years here on thinkBuddha.org, so thanks for all of your help. I’ll post again here when the book is published.

Image: Wikimedia Commons.

 
#1 · Jim Eubanks

12 June 2009

Wonderful, Will! So glad to hear this. Please keep me updated.

#2 · Ed

15 June 2009

Just happy to make your acquaintance, that’s all … looking forward to reading more.

#3 · Will

16 June 2009

Thanks, Jim. I’ll be sending you an email. And nice to meet you, Ed.
W

#4 · Brian

18 June 2009

I read the Dalai Lama’s book “Ethics for the New Millennium.” It was a very good book.
It is scary how some in this society want remove God – from all aspects of our life.

I hear today PBS wants to ban religious content. So sad…

Hope your book dies well.

God bless…

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