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Higgins hopes that the aphorisms are 'shafts of wisdom'. Or 'signposts'. He includes Etienne Bonnot de Condillac (1715-1780) telling the story of someone waking form a deep sleep and finding themselves in a labyrinth together with some other people who are busy arguing over general principles for finding the way out. What, tienne exclaims, could appear more ridiculous! Yet that, he says is what the philosophers are doing. 'It is more important to find ourselves merely where we were at first than to believe prematurely that we are our of the labyrinth', he concludes. So does the book make sense, or is it just a glorified philosophical phrase book, even - or shocking thought! - source book of 'thoughts for the day'? In a rather sonorous introduction, Higgins talks of the reader taking their first untrained and 'first hesitant steps' towards learning the subtleties of the philosophic dance - 'the chaste pleasures of philosophical mastery'. But this collection excludes non Europeans and indeed all women from the dance, for reasons that are increasingly hard to accept. John Dewey, the American philosopher of education, we find, wrote that 'meaning is wider in scope as well as more precious in value than truth, and philosophy is occupied with meaning rather than truth', but it is hard to see any real pattern (other than the chronological structure) or greater meaning in Porcupines. It remains, as it was when it set out, a collection of fragments. But they are, indeed, beautiful fragments. -- 'The Philosopher', March 2000
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