PHILOSOPHER

A TRUE STORY OF LOVE AND WAR

A ROVER BOOK
496 pages, paperback, 15.6 cm x 23.4 cm
ISBN 978-1-46647-993-7

Andy Ross became a well trained philosopher but he kept asking why. It took him years to find out. As a baby boomer his soul was more seared than he expected by the wars of the twentieth century and their bitter aftermath in Britain. He found a way forward in a move to Germany and a new life of service to science and technology.

Gradually, over decades of patient work as well as failed love affairs and times of redemptive clarity, Andy worked out a set of answers to his questions that have universal scope and significance. He has forged a radical new philosophy. Its impact on his personal life has resulted in an often dramatic and finally moving human story.
 

CONTENTS

Index of Names

This listing omits family and friends and others veiled by pseudonyms.

Abraham of Ur; Adams, Cliff; Adams, Douglas; Adams, William; Adjani, Isabelle; Adorno, Theodor; Agassi, Shai; Akkad, Moustapha; Albert, David Z.; Allende, Salvador; Althusser, Louis; Ambrose, Saint; Amis, Kingsley; Amis, Martin; Apotheker, Léo; Aquinas, Thomas; Aristophanes; Aristotle; Armatrading, Joan; Armstrong, Neil; Asimov, Isaac; Atmanspacher, Harald; Attenborough, David; Attenborough, Richard; Augustine of Hippo; Austin, J. L.; Ayer, Alfred J.; Aykroyd, Dan; Baars, Bernard; Bach, Johann Sebastian; Baden-Powell, Robert; Baeyer, Hans Christian von; Baillie, J. B.; Baker, Gordon; Balfour, Julian; Barger, Sonny; Bar-Hillel, Yehoshua; Barnhart, Bruno; Barwise, Jon; Basinger, Kim; Bauer, Barbara; Bauer, Friedrich L.; Beals, Jennifer; Beatty, Warren; Beauvoir, Simone de; Becker, Boris; Bednorz, J. Georg; Beethoven, Ludwig van; Beiglböck, Wolf; Bell, John; Bell, T. C.; Bellow, Saul; Bentine, Michael; Berg, Yehuda; Bergen, Axel von; Bergman, Ingrid; Berkeley, George; Berlin, Isaiah; Bernays, Paul; Berners-Lee, Tim; Bernini, G. L.; Berry, Michael; Bester, Alfred; Beuys, Joseph; Bhutto, Benazir; Bidwell, Syd; Birkin, Jane; Blackmore, Susan; Blair, Tony; Blake, William; Blamey, Stephen; Bloom, Harold; Boccaccio, Giovanni; Bogart, Humphrey; Bohm, David; Bohnenkamp, Hajo; Bohr, Niels; Bolc, Leonard; Boole, George; Boorstin, Daniel J.; Born, Max; Borowik, Piotr; Bostock, David; Bostock, L.; Boulay, Shirley du; Bourgeois, Jean Pierre; Bowie, David; Boyer, Pascal; Bradbury, Ray; Bradley, F. H.; Brando, Marlon; Braun, Wernher von; Brezhnev, Leonid; Bridges, Jeff; Briggs, Raymond; Brockman, John; Brodie, Alex; Brooks, Elkie; Brouwer, L. E. J.; Brown, Lancelot; Brown, Tina; Buber, Martin; Buchan, James; Burroughs, William; Burton, Richard; Bush, George H. W.; Bush, George W.; Byrne, Catriona; Caine, Michael; Cairncross, Frances; Caligula, Gaius Germanicus; Callaghan, James; Camejo, Silvia Arroyo; Cameron, David; Cameron, James; Camm, Sydney; Campbell, Naomi; Cantor, Georg; Capra, Fritjof; Carnap, Rudolf; Carré, John le; Casey, Richard; Castaneda, Carlos; Chadwick, Roy; Chalmers, David; Chamberlain, Neville; Chamberlain, Richard; Chandler, F. S.; Chardin, Teilhard de; Charles I, King; Charles, Prince of Wales; Chaucer, Geoffrey; Cheney, Richard; Cher (singer); Chernenko, Konstantin; Chopin, Frédéric F.; Chopra, Deepak; Church, Alonzo; Churchill, John; Churchill, Winston; Clancy, Tom; Clark, Gordon; Clarke, Arthur C.; Clavell, James; Clayderman, Richard; Clinton, William J.; Cohen, Clive; Cohen, Leonard; Cohen, Paul; Coleman, James A.; Coleridge, Samuel Taylor; Collins, Phil; Conrad, Joseph; Conway, John; Cooper, Frank; Coppola, Francis Ford; Coppola, Sofia; Cotterill, Rodney; Cotton, Billy; Craig, Edward; Craig, Gordon A.; Crichton, Michael; Crick, Francis; Crompton, Richmal; Cromwell, Oliver; Crowe, Russell; Crowther-Hunt, Norman; Cruise, Tom; Cummings, E. E.; Curtis, Graham; Curtis, Richard; Cutler, Ivor; Dalai Lama; Dalen, Dirk Van; Daltrey, Roger; Damasio, Antonio; Damon, Matt; Daniel, Hans-Ulrich; Dante Alighieri; Darwin, Charles; Davidson, Donald; Davies, Andy; Davis, Philip J.; Dawkins, Richard; Dennett, Daniel; Depardieu, Gérard; Derbyshire, John; Dern, Laura; Descartes, René; Deutsch, David; Diana, Princess of Wales; DiCaprio, Leonardo; Dick, Philip K.; Dickens, Charles; Dimont, Max; Dirac, Paul; Dolev, S.; Donovan P. Leitsch; Dostoyevsky, F.; Douglas, Kirk; Drake, Frank R.; Duffy (singer); Dummett, Michael; Duncan, Tom; Dylan, Bob; Dyson, Freeman; Dyson, George; Eastwood, Clint; Edelman, David; Edelman, Gerald; Einstein, Albert; Eliot, T. S.; Elitzur, A.; Elizabeth II, Queen; Eltis, Walter; Emmerich, Roland; Endo, Shusaku; Engels, Friedrich; Eno, Brian; Erhard, Werner; Escher, M. C.; Evans, Gareth; Everett III, Hugh; Eysenck, Hans J.; Falconer, Helen; Faraday, Michael; Farleigh, Peter; Fassbinder, Rainer Werner; Fawcett, Farrah; Feferman, Anita Burdman; Feferman, Solomon; Feinberg, Todd; Fenton, James; Ferguson, Niall; Ferry, Brian; Feynman, Richard; Firestone, Shulamith; Flack, Roberta; Flockhart, Calista; Fontane, Theodor; Ford, Gerald; Ford, Harrison; Foster, Jodie; Foster, Norman; Fox, Michael J.; Fraenkel, Abraham; Franklin, Aretha; Franklin, Pete; Frederick the Great; Fredman, Sandra; Freeman, Anthony; Freeman, Howard; Frege, Gottlob; Freud, Sigmund; Friedman, Louis; Frinton, Freddie; Gadamer, Hans-Georg; Gagarin, Yuri; Gainsbourg, Serge; Galbraith, John Kenneth; Galland, Adolf; Gandhi, Mohandas K.; Gandy, Robin; Gardner, Martin; Garfunkel, Art; Gates, Bill; Geldof, Bob; Gentzen, Gerhard; George VI, King; Gernreich, Rudi; Gibran, Kahlil; Gibson, Mel; Gilbert, Martin; Gillies, Donald; Gleick, James; Glover, Jonathan; Gödel, Kurt; Goebbels, Josef; Goering, Hermann; Goldblum, Jeff; Goldstein, Rebecca; Gorbachev, Mikhail; Gordon, Giles; Gore, Al; Götze, Heinz; Grant, Hugh; Grayling, A. C.; Green, John; Greene, Brian; Greenfield, Susan; Greer, Germaine; Gribbin, John; Griffiths, Bede; Gromyko, Andrei; Guth, Alan; Habermas, Jürgen; Hacker, Peter; Hagan, Scott; Haken, Hermann; Hameroff, Stuart; Hanks, Tom; Hardcastle, Sarah; Hardy, Thomas; Harris, Arthur; Harris, Sam; Harrison, George; Hart, Bill; Harvey, Andrew; Hastings, Max; Hatton, Joe; Hauser, Kaspar; Hawking, Stephen; Haynes, John-Dylan; Healey, Dennis; Heath, Edward; Hefter, Ernst; Hegel, G. W. F.; Heidegger, Martin; Heine, Heinrich; Heinlein, Robert; Heinze, Joachim; Heisenberg, Werner; Heller, Joseph; Hendrix, Jimi; Henry IV, King; Hersh, Reuben; Herzog, Werner; Hesse, Hermann; Heym, Stefan; Higgs, Peter; Hilbert, David; Hiley, Basil; Hill, Gerhard; Hirohito, Emperor; Hitchens, Christopher; Hitler, Adolf; Hobbes, Thomas; Hodge, Joanna; Hoffman, Dustin; Hofstadter, Douglas; Honda, Soichiro; Honderich, Ted; Hoyle, Fred; Hughes, Howard; Hume, David; Hussein, Saddam; Husserl, Edmund; Inwood, Michael; Irving, David; Isaacson, Daniel; Ishiguro, Hidé; Issigonis, Alec; Iveson, Tony; Jackson, Michael; Jagger, Mick; Jarratt, Alex; Jaspers, Karl; Jaynes, Julian; Jenkins, Clive; Jenkins, Roy; Jesus of Nazareth; Joel, Billy; John Paul II, Pope; John, Elton; Johns, W. E.; Johnson, J. E.; Johnson, Lyndon B.; Joyce, James; Julius Caesar; Jung, C. G.; Jürgens, Hartmut; Kagermann, Henning; Kahn, Herman; Kaku, Michio; Kamp, Hans; Kant, Immanuel; Kaufmann, Walter; Kavanagh, Patricia; Kawabata, Yasunari; Keitel, Harvey; Kemp-Smith, Norman; Kennedy, John F.; Kershaw, Ian; Keyes, Daniel; Keynes, John Maynard; Khomeini, Ruhollah; Khrushchev, Nikita; Kickuth, Rolf; Kidder, Tracy; Kidman, Nicole; Kiefer, Anselm; King, Stephen; Kinnock, Neil; Kinski, Klaus; Kinski, Nastassja; Kircher, Carina; Kirwan, Christopher; Kissinger, Henry; Klimov, Elem; Kling, Janie; Klitzing, Klaus von; Knuth, Donald E.; Koch, Christof; Koestler, Arthur; Kohl, Helmut; Kojève, Alexandre; Kolakowski, Leszek; Kolenda, N.; Koresh, David; Körner, Stefan; Kravtsov, Yurii A.; Krawczyk-Wasilewska, Violetta; Kripke, Saul; Kubrick, Stanley; Kuhn, Thomas; Kunii, Tosiyasu L.; Kurosawa, Akira; Kurzweil, Ray; Lahee, Angela; Lakatos, Imre; Lao Tzu; Larkin, Philip; Laurikainen, K. V.; Lawrence, D. H.; Lawrence, T. E.; Lean, David; Leary, Timothy; Lederman, Leon; LeDoux, Joseph; Legler, Thomas; Lehner, Wolfgang; Leibnitz, Gottfried; Lemmon, E. J.; Lenin, V. I.; Lennon, John; Levy, Azriel; Lewerich, Bernhard; Lewinsky, Monica; Lewis, C. S.; Lewis, David; Lindley, David; Lippisch, Alexander; Lisi, Garrett; Llinás, Rodolfo R.; Lloyd, Christopher; Locke, John; Lockwood, Michael; Lodge, David; Lotsch, Helmut; Lucas, John; Lukacs, Georg; Luther, Martin; Lynch, David; Lynn, Vera; Mach, Ernst; Macmillan, Harold; Madonna (singer); Madsen, Truman G.; Magdalene, Mary; Maharishi Mahesh Yogi; Mailer, Norman; Major, John; Malloy, Jim; Manchester, William; Mandelbrot, Benoit; Manilow, Barry; Mankell, Henning; Mann, Thomas; Mao Zedong; Marcus Aurelius; Marcuse, Herbert; Markram, Henry; Martin, Steve; Marx, Karl; Mason, James; Matsubara, Hisako; Maxwell, James Clerk; Maxwell, Neil A.; May, Brian; McArthur, Douglas; McCain, John; McCartney, Paul; McCrum, Robert; McDermott, Drew; McDowell, Andie; McDowell, John; McEwan, Ian; McFadden, Johnjoe; McGillis, Kelly; McGinn, Colin; McGinn, Marie; McKenzie, Scott; McQueen, Steve; Meacham, Jon; Melville, Herman; Mercury, Freddie; Meridius, Maximus Decimus; Metzinger, Thomas; Michael, George; Michelangelo Buonarroti; Michelmore, Cliff; Mill, John Stuart; Miller, Malcolm; Miller, Stanley; Milligan, Spike; Mishima, Yukio; Mitchell, Reginald; Moffat, A.; Monsarrat, Nicholas; Montague of Beaulieu; Montague, Richard; Montand, Yves; Montgomery, Bernard; More, Kenneth; Morgan, Elaine; Morris, Jan; Moses (prophet); Moss, Stirling; Mountbatten, Louis; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus; Muhamed (prophet); Mukhopadhyay, A. K.; Müller, Karl Alexander; Müller, Werner; Mulley, Fred; Mullis, Kary; Muncaster, Roger; Murakami, Haruki; Murasaki Shikibu; Murdoch, Iris; Murray, Bill; Mussolini, Benito; Myhrvold, Nathan; Nabokov, Vladimir; Nagel, Thomas; Napoleon Bonaparte; Nash, John; Nehru, Pandit; Nelson, Horatio; Neumann, John von; Newton, Isaac; Newton-John, Olivia; Nichols, Mike; Nico (Christa Päffgen); Nietzsche, Friedrich; Nixon, Richard M.; Nowarra, Heinz J.; Nunn, Chris; Obama, Barack; Omnès, Roland; Orbison, Roy; Orwell, George; Otter, Charlotte; Owen, David; Pascal, Blaise; Pasolini, Pier Paolo; Pasquini, Claude; Paul VI, Pope; Pauli, Wolfgang; Peitgen, Heinz-Otto; Penrose, Roger; Peres, Shimon; Perry, Katy; Perry, Matthew; Pfeiffer, Michelle; Phillips, Todd; Pickett, Wilson; Piekalkiewicz, Janusz; Pinkard, Terry; Pinochet, Augusto; Piper, Arthur; Pirsig, Robert; Planck, Max; Plant, Robert; Plato; Plattner, Hasso; Pohl, Frederick; Polanski, Roman; Popper, Karl; Porsche, Ferdinand; Presley, Elvis; Price, Huw; Pullman, Philip; Putnam, Hilary; Pylkkanen, Paavo; Quincey, Christian de; Quine, W. V. O.; Quinn, Daniel; Quinn, Sally; Rabin, Michael; Rachmaninoff, Sergei; Ramachandran, Vilayanur; Randall, Lisa; Ransome, Arthur; Ratzinger, Joseph; Reagan, Ronald; Redgrave, Michael; Reed, John; Rees-Mogg, William; Reeves, Keanu; Regis, Ed; Reich, Wilhelm; Reischauer, Edwin O.; Richard, Cliff; Richter, Peter; Riemann, Bernhard; Rigg, Diana; Ringo Starr; Ringwald, Molly; Roaf, Dermot; Robbins, Harold; Robert, J. M.; Roberts, Julia; Robinson, Abraham; Robinson, Joan; Roe, Edwin Alliott Verdon; Rommel, Erwin; Ronstadt, Linda; Roosevelt, Franklin; Root, Wells; Rosen, Howard; Rosendorfer, Herbert; Rosenthal, David; Ross, Diana; Ross, James; Ross, John; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel; Rossum, Guido van; Roth, Philip; Rotten, Johnny; Rucker, Rudy; Rumi (poet); Rumsfeld, Donald; Rushdie, Salman; Russell, Bertrand; Russell, Charles; Russell, Jane; Russell, Ken; Russell, Peter; Ruvo, Rebecca de; Ryan, Cornelius; Ryan, Meg; Sacks, Oliver; Safranski, Rüdiger; Sagan, Carl; Sakamoto, Ryuichi; Sampson, Anthony; Sanders, Victoria; Sanfey, John; Sartre, Jean-Paul; Saupe, Dietmar; Savage, Marshall T.; Schachter, Daniel; Schawlow, Arthur; Scheer, August-Wilhelm; Schevardnadze, Eduard; Schiller, Friedrich; Schlink, Bernhard; Schmidt, Helmut; Schmidt-Volkmar, Pascal; Schopenhauer, Arthur; Schrödinger, Erwin; Schwartz, Melvin; Schwarzenegger, Arnold; Schwinger, Julian; Sciama, Dennis; Scott Fitzgerald, F.; Scott, Alwyn; Scott, Dana; Scott, Ridley; Scruton, Roger; Secombe, Harry; Sedgwick-Jell, Simon; Seidensticker, Edward G.; Sellers, Peter; Seymour, Mark; Seymour, Paul; Shakespeare, William; Shams of Tabriz; Shankar, Ravi (musician); Shankar, Ravi (physicist); Sheen, Martin; Sherman, Barrie; Shirer, William L.; Siddharta Gautama (Buddha); Sikka, Vishal; Silverstone, Alicia; Simon, Neil; Singer, Wolf; Skolem, Thoralf; Slomson, A. B.; Smith, Joseph; Smolin, Lee; Smoot, George; Snowdon, Paul; Socrates; Solomon, Neil; Spector, Phil; Spengler, Oswald; Spielberg, Steven; Springer, Julius; Springfield, Dusty; Stalin, Josef; Stapp, Henry; Stauffenberg, Claus Schenk Graf von; Steel, David; Stein, Sherman K.; Steinberger, Jack; Steiner, George; Stewart, Al; Stewart, Ian; Sting (Gordon Sumner); Stockhausen, Karlheinz; Stoppard, Tom; Strawson, Galen; Strawson, Peter; Summer, Donna; Sutherland, Keith; Sweetman, Bill; Swinburne, Richard; Takahashi, Yukihiro; Tanizaki, Junichiro; Tarski, Alfred; Tart, Charles; Taylor, Charles; Taylor, Gabriele; Tchaikovsky, P. I.; Templeton, Hugh; Templeton, John; Templeton, Paul; Templeton, Peter; Thaikattil, Soja John; Thatcher, Margaret; Theunissen, Petra; Thiel, Christian; Thiering, Barbara; Thompson, Hunter S.; Tito, Josip Broz; Tokugawa Ieyasu; Tolkien, J. R. R.; Tolstoy, Leo; Tomonaga, Sin-Itiro; Tononi, Giulio; Townshend, Pete; Trainer, Jennifer; Travolta, John; Trump, Donald; Truss, John; Turing, Alan; Turner, Ike; Turner, Ted; Turner, Tina; Tuszynski, Jack; Tye, Michael; Tzuke, Judie; Updike, John; Ure, Midge; Urey, Harold; Van Gogh, Vincent; Van Vogt, A.E.; Velmans, Max; Verhoeven, Paul; Vicious, Sid; Vilenkin, Alex; Vincent, Gene; Vogel, Ezra; Vonnegut, Kurt; Wall, Josephine; Wallis, Barnes; Warhol, Andy; Warwick, Dionne; Watkins, John; Watson, James D.; Weaver, Sigourney; Weber, Beate; Wegner, Daniel; Weinberg, Steven; Weinstein, Bill; Wells, Gully; Wheare, Kenneth; White, Patrick; White, Stephen; Whitehead, Alfred North; Wiesel, Elie; Wiggins, David; Wigner, Eugene; Williams, Bernard; Wilmot, Chester; Wilson, Andy; Wilson, Harold; Winehouse, Amy; Winslet, Kate; Witten, Edward; Witten, I. H.; Wittgenstein, Ludwig; Woessner, Hans; Wohlfahrt, Harald; Wolf, Christian; Wolf, Fred Alan; Wolfe, Tom; Wolff, Nancy; Wolfram, Stephen; Wonder, Stevie; Wright, Crispin; Wyndham, John; Xavier, Francis; Yalom, Irvin D.; Yoko Ono; Young, Shinzen; Yourgrau, Palle; Zappa, Frank; Zeh, H.-Dieter; Zemeckis, Robert; Zencke, Peter; Zentner, Christian; Zermelo, Ernst; Zukav, Gary; Zuse, Konrad; Zwiebach, Barton

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