Your Favourite Philosophy Book
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Topic: Your Favourite Philosophy Book
Posted By: Guests
Subject: Your Favourite Philosophy Book
Date Posted: 12-Jun-2006 at 09:58
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Which is your favourite book on Philosophy and why? |
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Posted By: xi_tujue
Date Posted: 12-Jun-2006 at 12:48
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The Japanese Hagakure. It's a bit extreme but It teaches discipline ------------- I rather be a nomadic barbarian than a sedentary savage |
Posted By: gcle2003
Date Posted: 12-Jun-2006 at 14:48
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My favourite book ON philosophy, rather than my favourite philosophical book has to be Russell's 'History of Western Philosophy', with Popper's 'The Open Society and Its Enemies' close behind, though it concentrates on political philosophy.
I think my most valuable book OF philosophy is Hume's Treatise on Human Nature, but I can't say I enjoyed reading it.  ------------- |
Posted By: Giannis
Date Posted: 13-Jun-2006 at 06:59
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My favorite philosophical book is a novel by Paulo Coehlo, ''The Alchemist''. This is the closer thing that I've read about philosophy. -------------  Give me a place to stand and I will move the world.
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Posted By: Chilbudios
Date Posted: 13-Jun-2006 at 07:42
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Posted By: arsenka
Date Posted: 30-Jun-2006 at 09:38
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If you don't mind my referring to A. de S.-Exupery as a philosopher, I'd mention his name at the top of my list. I don't mean just "Le Petit Prince" (The Little Prince) but also other his books:
"Pilote de Geurre" (Flight to Arras); "Terre de Hommes" (Wind, Sand, and Stars);"Courier Sud" (Southern Mail);"Vol de Nuit" (Night Flight); "Lettre à un Otage" (Letter to a Hostage) etc. His world outlook is very close to mine. Richard Bach's books ("Illusions", "J.Livingston - seagull" etc.)are also very interesting though I don't agree with everything he writes. Tolstoy, Rozanov, Abelar also ahould be mentioned. ------------- arsenka |
Posted By: Ponce de Leon
Date Posted: 12-Jul-2006 at 18:51
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The Bible. It is the best seller of all time.
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Posted By: Justinian
Date Posted: 30-Jul-2006 at 23:34
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I haven't read many but of the ones I have Plato's Republic is right at the top with Marcus Aurelius' Meditations a close second. ------------- "War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."--Thomas Mann 
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Posted By: Omar al Hashim
Date Posted: 03-Aug-2006 at 04:22
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the Book of the Book It says everything that needs to be said, and nothing more. ------------- |
Posted By: Goban
Date Posted: 05-Aug-2006 at 12:34
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Do old text books count? I still have a philosophy book from college "The Great Conversation: A historical Introduction to Philosophy-Second Edition, by Norman Melchert, 1995.
I still read it now and then.  ------------- The sharpest spoon in the drawer. |
Posted By: Odin
Date Posted: 13-Aug-2006 at 00:50
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Popper's The Open Society and It's Enemies. It is what made me turn away from Marxism to non-Marxist Socialism. ------------- "Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now." -Arnold J. Toynbee |
Posted By: Odin
Date Posted: 13-Aug-2006 at 00:51
That's mythology. ------------- "Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now." -Arnold J. Toynbee |
Posted By: bagelofdoom
Date Posted: 21-Sep-2006 at 01:32
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repeat post, sorry. |
Posted By: bagelofdoom
Date Posted: 21-Sep-2006 at 01:32
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ditto |
Posted By: bagelofdoom
Date Posted: 21-Sep-2006 at 01:32
Mythology or not, it still gives a philosophical viewpoint and is the basis for the personal philosophies of billions of people. |
Posted By: Ikki
Date Posted: 24-Sep-2006 at 06:49
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"The Social Contract" of Jean Jacques Rousseau, crucial importance for the french revolution, precursor of the socialism.
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 14-Feb-2007 at 11:17
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I was just about to type The Socail Contract when I noticed the previous message. His view on democracy is very important for todays democratic elitists.
This was my favourite philosophical study I read before I read Camus.
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Posted By: drill_skill_800
Date Posted: 20-Feb-2007 at 12:30
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Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche -------------  There is a fine line between gifted and retarded 
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Posted By: JanusRook
Date Posted: 20-Feb-2007 at 17:01
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The Analects of Confucius.
------------- Economic Communist, Political Progressive, Social Conservative. Unless otherwise noted source is wiki. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 20-Feb-2007 at 17:24
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I like the "World of Sophia", because it say it all in a nice, light manner. All the philosophers together, talking in simple.
In classicals I like the pre-Socratic scripts that still exist, and also the Tao Te King. And, of course, Native American mythology
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Posted By: Top Gun
Date Posted: 21-Feb-2007 at 11:00
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Sun Tzu
the art of war
its brilliant every aspect of war is mentioned in it with this book I can lead an army by myself ( with calculator off course  )------------- |
Posted By: Sorgina
Date Posted: 24-Apr-2007 at 03:13
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I havn't read one so far. ------------- 
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Posted By: Onasander
Date Posted: 21-Aug-2015 at 23:55
| Thomas Merton's "The Way of Chuang Tzu". It's Daoist yet strongly likeable by Catholics. Bit odd, but we don't like having to explain our like of this text. |