The Happiness of Dogs : Why the Unexamined Life Is Most Worth Living
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Author: Rowlands, Mark
Popular philosophy
Published on 29 August 2024 by GRANTA BOOKS in the United Kingdom.
Hardback | 256 pages
144 x 224 x 26 | 368g
If a dog could write a book of philosophy, what would it contain?If you have spent part of your life with a dog, you may find certain questions popping, unbidden, into your mind. Is my dog living a fulfilled life? Is my dog a good dog? Does my dog love me? This, however only scratches the surface of a canine philosophy. Drawing on his life lived with dogs (two German shepherds, the amiable Hugo and his dark twin Shadow; Brenin, a wolf hybrid, and Tess his wolf dog daughter; and Nina, a German shepherd/malamute mix), on the ideas of philosophers from Socrates to Hume and Sartre, and on the cutting edge psychology of canine cognition, philosopher Mark Rowlands explores the way dogs experience the world to bring us closer to an understanding of ourselves. 'A masterclass in canine philosophy' Tim Dowling, Guardian