In All Things Are Full of Gods, David Bentley Hart sets out to find a better account of mind and consciousness, rejecting both reductionist materialism and the dualist separation of mind from body. He named his book after Thales of Miletus, a philosopher so absorbed in the heavens he walked into a well.
Reviewer Robert Brennan thinks Hart may have done the same:
The book promises much but, in eventually restating existing answers from a variety of philosophical traditions, it undermines its own purpose.
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