Martin Butler's Negative Philosophy

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Preface from my new book

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The contents of this book range from mildly unpleasant to downright disgusting. It has to be this way for two reasons. The first is the need to be honest. As the Buddhists might say, life is suffering, and suffering is generally quite ugly. You know, things like bone cancer, being shot in the abdomen and taking two hours to die an agonizing death, loss …

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