Author: Brendan Wenzel
Plot Summary: They All Saw A Cat by Brendan Wenzel describes what an array of different creatures - a child, a snake, a mouse, a bee, etc. - observe when they see a cat. Each creature sees the cat differently, depending on their size, ways of perceiving the world, and how they stand in relation to the cat (whether they are prey or predator, for example). At the end of the book, we are asked to imagine what the cat sees when they look at themself in the water.
Posted In: Differences, Epistemology, Metaphysics
Plot Summary: They All Saw A Cat by Brendan Wenzel describes what an array of different creatures - a child, a snake, a mouse, a bee, etc. - observe when they see a cat. Each creature sees the cat differently, depending on their size, ways of perceiving the world, and how they stand in relation to the cat (whether they are prey or predator, for example). At the end of the book, we are asked to imagine what the cat sees when they look at themself in the water.
Posted In: Differences, Epistemology, Metaphysics
Discussion Questions
- If every creature sees the cat differently, is there anything that is objectively true of the cat?
- What is a cat?
- Is the way the cat sees themself more authoritative than how they are perceived by others?
- Is it possible to see the world as others do?
- Can we really know how others perceive us?
- Does how we feel about someone influence how we see them?
- Is there one right way to perceive someone or something?
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