β Scribed by D. E. Wittkower
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Mr. Monk and Philosophy is a carefully and neatly organized collection of eighteen chapters divided into exactly six groups of precisely three chapters each. Drawing on a wide range of philosophers--from Aristotle and Diogenes, to Siddhartha Gautama and St. Thomas Aquinas, to David Hume and Karl Popper--the authors ask how Adrian Monk solves his cases, why he is the way he is, how he thinks, and what we can learn from him.
Some of the authors suggest Monk is a kind of tragic hero, whose flaws help us live out and expunge the fear and anxiety we all experience; that he is more than just his personality or memories, but something more individual and indefinable; and that his most distinctive traits are not the traits that make him a detective, but those that make him a friend. His most notable trait is the dedication he shows to his late wife, Trudy.
Other authors explore how Monk encounters the world, arguing that his genius comes not from logic or...
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