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Anansi Boys (Mass Market Paperback) by Neil Gaiman (Goodreads author!) bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Anansi Boys (Mass Market Paperback) by Neil Gaiman (Goodreads author!) bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Meno (Paperback) by Plato |
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recommended for: Anyone who is interested in philosophy
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"This is a very absorbing dialogue between Meno and Socrates. It starts off with Meno trying to explain the meaning of virtue to Socrates. After several failed attempts Meno finally asks Socrates how he can even inquire what virtue is, if he doesn't k...more
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Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers (Mass Market Paperback) by Will Durant |
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recommended for: people looking for a good introduction to great thinkers
read in September, 2004
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"It has been so long since I read it. But I remember it introduced me to so many philosophers. I was jotting down names of books Durant mentioned, that I had to read the whole way through this book. This was basically my first foray into philosophy an...more
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| December 29, 2007 | ||||
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New comment on Toni's review of
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
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| December 07, 2007 | ||||
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Red Dwarf (Hardcover) by Grant Naylor |
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| November 21, 2007 | ||||
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"It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy." — Arthur Schopenhauer | |||
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Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages (Paperback) by Richard E. Rubenstein |
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read in January, 2005
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"It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy."
— Arthur Schopenhauer (The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims (Great Books in Philosophy))
— Arthur Schopenhauer (The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims (Great Books in Philosophy))
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penthouse letters, eh? you are silly!
nice picture! hope you enjoy the site.
penthouse letters, eh? you are silly!
nice picture! hope you enjoy the site.
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