⭐ The Courage to be Disliked by Kishimi

Full Title	The Courage to be Disliked
Authors	Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga
Year Published	2017
Date Read	March 08, 2019
Rating	1/5 stars

Listened to the first hour of the Audible version just couldn’t get past the voice actor they chose as the ‘youth’ as well as the general tone of the writing. I don’t mind books structured around the Socratic dialogue, but I do mind the implementation this book chose where the argument seems fairly acrimonious and not at all truth-seeking (“I’m going to prove him wrong and make him kneel before me”? I mean, c’mon).

I also found the youth to be inconsistently ‘stupid’ — at times, he misses obvious implications that the philosopher must then painstakingly explain, but in others provides incisive questions that move the discussion forward. This I think is primarily due to bad writing, because I haven’t had the same experience with Socratic dialogue books.

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