How to Become a Rational Animal

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How to Become a Rational Animal

“How to Become a Rational Animal” is an introduction to philosophy unlike any other: it is clear, readable and witty. This is a book that opens doors, sheds light and strengthens the spirit. Jason West has freed philosophy from the chains of tedium and absurdity that bound it in the twentieth century, and given it back to the ordinary men and women of the twenty-first. 

Dr. Jason West resides in Edmonton Alberta with his wife Christine and their six children. He is the President of Newman Theological College where he has also taught philosophy for nine years. An expert on the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas and Jacques Maritain, he has published articles on these topics in journals such as The Journal for the History of Philosophy, Philosophical Forum, Nova et Vetera, The Modern Schoolman, Gregorianum, The Thomist, and others. He completed his PhD in philosophy at the University of Waterloo in Ontario in 2003 and is past-President of the Canadian Society for Christian Philosophers.