Book Meme, Day 26 – A book that changed your opinion about something

Day 26 – A book that changed your opinion about something

Um, all of them? In their own small, subtle ways?

I am struggling to call to mind a book that has drastically changed my opinion about anything, major or minor. I suppose there are several examples in philosophy, but that's sort of expected, right? Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding destabilized my naive views on causality, for instance. [insert other examples here]

I suppose the best example I can find flows from these: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig. I read it just after finishing my degree in Analytic Philosophy, and drank it in like a cool glass of milk after a meal full of chilies. On the one hand, it was though it were giving me permission to question analytic philosophy at its very roots (and not just in its own terms), while on the other it reframed Aristotle's ideas into something not only palatable but eminently useful; overall, a much-needed detox from my degree.

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