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Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy

by Bernard Williams

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Bryan gave to: To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche by Erich Fromm read in January, 2012	My rating:
While the distinction between having and being has some intuitive traction, I remained mixed on Fromm's analysis in the end. In large part because I have a peculiar allergy to the term "being" owing to the frequent ambiguity and romanticism associate...more
Jan 09, 2012 06:57am · see review
Bryan gave to: Neuroethics: Challenges for the 21st Century by Neil Levy read in December, 2011	My rating:
I have a special fascination with all things relating to the Extended Mind hypothesis, so I especially enjoyed the opening sections of this book in which Levy introduces an ethical parity principle that is intended to deflate the claims to novel ethi...more
Jan 09, 2012 06:51am · see review
Bryan gave to: Beyond Homelessness: Christian Faith in a Culture of Displacement by Steven Bouma-Prediger read in December, 2011	My rating:
This is a deeply engaging and thoughtful book. The metaphor of homelessness works extremely well in both explaining how Christian thought and practice can interact with modern and postmodern conditions as well as bringing to light deep and important ...more
Dec 29, 2011 11:15am · see review
Bryan gave to: Nature by Design: People, Natural Process, and Ecological Restoration by Eric Higgs read in December, 2011	My rating:
A thoughtful and nuanced attempt to bring clarity and substance to the idea and practice of ecological restoration. I especially enjoyed the chapter "Denaturing Restoration," in which Higgs draws restoration practice into conversation with work in th...more
Dec 20, 2011 09:55am · see review
Bryan gave to: The Practice of Everyday Life by Michel de Certeau read in December, 2011	My rating:
Dec 20, 2011 09:48am
Bryan gave to: Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century by Peter Warren Singer read in December, 2011	My rating:
The range of new military technologies surveyed in this book are troubling for the collection of difficult and novel ethical and legal questions they invite, as well as the ways in which they would seem to encourage more warfare and conflict. That sa...more
Dec 20, 2011 09:47am · see review
Bryan gave to: No Place Like Home? by Jennifer Parks read in November, 2011	My rating:
In the interest of full disclosure, I should note that I happen to work as Dr. Park's graduate teaching assistant. That said, though, I read this book because of a genuine interest in the topic, home care work and workers, and found it to be very int...more
Nov 22, 2011 05:53pm · see review
Bryan gave to: The Sovereignty of Good (Routledge Classics) by Iris Murdoch read in November, 2011	My rating:
I found this collection of three essays to be deeply meaningful, provocative, thoughtful, and inspiring, especially as a student training in moral philosophy. I have no doubt that Murdoch's ideas have been, are, and will be considered controversial a...more
Nov 22, 2011 11:16am · see review
Bryan gave to: Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self by Susan J. Brison read in November, 2011	My rating:
This is a deeply felt and philosophically sophisticated account of Brison's process of recovery following the trauma of rape and attempted murder. Brison does an excellent job of drawing on the strength of her own first person narrative while also si...more
Nov 16, 2011 09:37am · see review
Bryan gave to: Working Knowledge: Skill And Community In A Small Shop by Douglas Harper read in November, 2011	My rating:
An interesting study of a mechanic named Willie that runs a repair shop in the rural north country of New York. The text offers a good blend of thoughtful photographs, detailed descriptions of shop practices and reasoning, and also some philosophical...more
Nov 16, 2011 09:07am · see review

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― Ellen DeGeneres

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“Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see, but it is impossible. Humans hide their secrets too well....”
― René Magritte

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“We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;”
― T.S. Eliot

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