What are you reading?
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Just to get a new topic started. I'm currently reading Michael Sandel's "Liberalism and the Limits of Justice" critiquing John Raws (haven't got to that part yet). The next book I got coming up is a biography on Marcus Aurelius.
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Re: What are you reading?
Unfortunately to answer this I have to refer to the perennial struggle bewteen atheism and tehsim.
I have been reading the God Delusion by Dawkins and God the failed Hypothesis by Stinger. I'm using both in my book on how new atheist screws up science: God, Science, and Ideology.*(working title).
both of those books are such jokes. I don't see how they got their reps among athesits.
well I do realy but it just underscores the bancrupcy of that movement.
I have also been reading a book on brain/mind issue the best In my view ever. It's called Irreducible Mind.
this link opens to fn so scroll up to the cover.
http://books.google.com/books?id=6gS_Lc ... e&q&f=true
It's a huge compendium written by a neurologist and his daughter, who is also a neurologist. It' a compendium of research and studies documenting all kinds of things both normal and paranormal. all of it worked into a giant arguemnt that the mind is not reduce able to the brain. that is such a complex issue the literature is so voluminous that chapter in my book is really hard to write.
I have been reading the God Delusion by Dawkins and God the failed Hypothesis by Stinger. I'm using both in my book on how new atheist screws up science: God, Science, and Ideology.*(working title).
both of those books are such jokes. I don't see how they got their reps among athesits.
well I do realy but it just underscores the bancrupcy of that movement.
I have also been reading a book on brain/mind issue the best In my view ever. It's called Irreducible Mind.
this link opens to fn so scroll up to the cover.
http://books.google.com/books?id=6gS_Lc ... e&q&f=true
It's a huge compendium written by a neurologist and his daughter, who is also a neurologist. It' a compendium of research and studies documenting all kinds of things both normal and paranormal. all of it worked into a giant arguemnt that the mind is not reduce able to the brain. that is such a complex issue the literature is so voluminous that chapter in my book is really hard to write.
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Re: What are you reading?
Metacrock wrote:I have been reading the God Delusion by Dawkins and God the failed Hypothesis by Stinger. I'm using both in my book on how new atheist screws up science: God, Science, and Ideology.*(working title).both of those books are such jokes. I don't see how they got their reps among athesits.
Every group has their lowest common denominator/demagogary (mispelling). The smart ones are generally too polite for quasi-political rallying.
"I have also been reading a book on brain/mind issue the best In my view ever. It's called Irreducible Mind."
Be sure to bring it up when your done. (in summaries of course).
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It's hard to summarize because there's so much there. They trace the whole history of the issue going back to William James. James dealt with a kind of reductionism that was much like Dennett and the new atheists being deal with today. Ralph Hood, the researcher I quote so much on the mystical experience topic, has always been telling me that.mdsimpson92 wrote:Metacrock wrote:I have been reading the God Delusion by Dawkins and God the failed Hypothesis by Stinger. I'm using both in my book on how new atheist screws up science: God, Science, and Ideology.*(working title).both of those books are such jokes. I don't see how they got their reps among athesits.
Every group has their lowest common denominator/demagogary (mispelling). The smart ones are generally too polite for quasi-political rallying.
"I have also been reading a book on brain/mind issue the best In my view ever. It's called Irreducible Mind."
Be sure to bring it up when your done. (in summaries of course).
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Re: What are you reading?
For me, Michael Sandel is currently just giving a summary of Rawls' Deontology and his use of the original position. He hasn't gotten to the criticism yet. With Marcus Aurelius. . . .yeah, I really like the guy. He definitely deserves the title of philosopher king. Hell, even in his younger years I sympathize with him. Hadrian was a total asshole. In fact I am begining to find the whole idea of the "five good emperors" to be a real misnomer. The only morally good ones were Marcus Aurelius and Atonius Pius. The only other one that was decisively good for the Empire was Trajan, and I still question his invasion of Iraw.
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Re: What are you reading?
For me, Michael Sandel is currently just giving a summary of Rawls' Deontology and his use of the original position. He hasn't gotten to the criticism yet. With Marcus Aurelius. . . .yeah, I really like the guy. He definitely deserves the title of philosopher king. Hell, even in his younger years I sympathize with him. Hadrian was a total asshole. In fact I am begining to find the whole idea of the "five good emperors" to be a real misnomer. The only morally good ones were Marcus Aurelius and Atonius Pius. The only other one that was decisively good for the Empire was Trajan, and I still question his invasion of Iraw.
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Re: What are you reading?
i would love to be able to read stuff like that now. I should because i have the time, but I don't really have the time if I keep to my written scheduled and do things I need to do. I also waste a lot of time watching old tv shows an longing for the 60s.mdsimpson92 wrote:For me, Michael Sandel is currently just giving a summary of Rawls' Deontology and his use of the original position. He hasn't gotten to the criticism yet. With Marcus Aurelius. . . .yeah, I really like the guy. He definitely deserves the title of philosopher king. Hell, even in his younger years I sympathize with him. Hadrian was a total asshole. In fact I am begining to find the whole idea of the "five good emperors" to be a real misnomer. The only morally good ones were Marcus Aurelius and Atonius Pius. The only other one that was decisively good for the Empire was Trajan, and I still question his invasion of Iraw.
what I mean about the having time is in terms of work. I am basically retired. I'm hoping to work my books into a source of income. so in job terms I can set my own hours. Yet I want to get the publishing/writing work done do I push myself.
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