TRUTH SEARCH: Some QUESTIONS and CLUES

By Carolyn J Sweers

“Carolyn Sweers is a free-lance philosopher and teacher. She is committed to the Socratic insight that if people are asked the right questions, they can come up with the wisdom they need for the living of a good life. This book is a compilation of some thought provoking questions and some clues to their answers. The questions and clues wer

• Language: English
• Publisher: TOPLINK PUBLISHING, LLC
• Release date: May 24, 2019
• ISBN: 9781733055901

Carolyn J 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 truths 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 evoked.

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Truth Search:

Some QUESTIONS and CLUES

Carolyn J Sweers

Copyright © 2019 by Carolyn J Sweers.

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The book is dedicated to my Osher students, especially the late Phil and Terry Rozga.

This book grew out of my experience of teaching a number of truth related courses at Osher Milwaukee. (an older adult education program connected with the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.)

My teaching style, which I have tried to incorporate in this book, is an interactive one. I provide questions and some points of view to consider. The emphasis throughout is on the importance of thinking for oneself.

There is a workbook-like quality to the text with open spaces and wide margins on which readers may write or draw their responses to the questions. The book would lend itself to both individual reflections as well as discussions with a small group, or at least a friend or two.

After you have done the introductory exercise, use the book intuitively. Spend time on the items that interest you. Enjoy the process that philosophical thinking is.

Contents

Introduction:

WHAT I KNOW ABOUT LIFE SO FAR

There are five sections that follow the Introduction.

Each section contains questions and quotations

used in an Osher course.

The book concludes with an Epilogue.

WHY TRUTH MATTERS

PHILOSOPHY AND THE NAKED EMPEROR

DOUBT AND ITS BENEFITS

DIALOGUE AND DISCOVERY

DIALOGUE AND DISCOVERY

STILLNESS AND INSIGHT

Epilogue:

What I know about life so far

INTRODUCTION:

BEGINNING A REFLECTIVE PROCESS

WHAT I KNOW ABOUT LIFE SO FAR

Part I

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