THE SUPERIOR PERSON'S GUIDE TO THE UNIVERSE: From The Pub Notebooks of Phil Ossifer

By Carolyn Sweers

The Superior Person’s Guide to the Universe is allegedly the edited version of pub notebooks kept by one Phil Ossifer.  It begins with the editor’s preface of how Carolyn met Phil, followed by an introduction in which Mr. Ossifer gives his thoughts on being superior.  The main body of the book consists of 165 querie

• Language: English
• Publisher: TOPLINK PUBLISHING, LLC
• Release date: Feb 23, 2018
• ISBN: 9781948779074

Carolyn Sweers

Carolyn Sweers grew up on an Iowa farm in the 1950's. It was there that she had her first experiences of the profound Silence she tries to describe in this book. These experiences, more than any others, shaped her life and led her to a career as a philosophy student and teacher. This book and others that she has had published recently, have a shared objective: to evoke insight in the reader. She knows from experience the importance of finding what Kierkegaard called "the truth for me." And, she shares the Socratic conviction that people have within them this truth. It simply needs to be revoked. That is what this book attempts to do.

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The Superior Person’s Guide to the Universe

From The Pub Notebooks of Phil Ossifer

Carolyn Sweers

Copyright © 2018 by Carolyn Sweers.

Paperback: 978-1-948779-06-7

eBook: 978-1-948779-07-4

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Contents

Editor’s Preface

Phil’s Thoughts on Being Superior

Queries and Conjectures 165 of them

Summary: A Superior Person’s Guide to Being in the Universe

Appendix: A Very Short Philosophy Course

EDITOR’S PREFACE

I had not seen Phil Ossifer since graduate school when we had been in a Kant seminar together. He never said much during the discussions. It often looked like he wasn’t paying attention and then all of a sudden he would make an insightful comment that made the rest of us sit up and take notice. Even our professor had to stop and think. So, imagine my surprise, when a half century later, there he was at the Milwaukee Ale House, sitting by himself, drinking a beer