Recent acquisitions:
📖 Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction by Edward Craig
📖 Beauty: A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton
#UniteAgainstBookBans and #LetUtahRead
rwmg 😨 Why were they banned? 6d
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction by Edward Craig
📖 Beauty: A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton
#UniteAgainstBookBans and #LetUtahRead
“Let unholy hands keep aloof from inspired writings, let the laity believe in their old religions and their new philosophies, and let Nietzsche be the philosopher for those only who have to stand alone, but who for this very reason need an example and perhaps a guide more than any other.“ ~Oscar Levy
How cute is this blind date with a book display? The store includes bookmarks and stickers with each wrapped book. Adorable!
Probably of limited interest to non-French people, but the baccalaureate philosophy exam started at 8 this morning, and the essay questions are now out:
Vocational stream
Is Nature hostile to Man
Is the artist master of their own work
Academic stream
Can science satisfy our need for truth
Does the State owe us anything
Inspired or not?
Thinking of all those teenagers sweating on their exam papers in many different parts of the world...
pickAlternates sections on the author's list of favourite philosophers and on themes and questions. Mostly concerned with the European tradition with occasional glances at India. Does what it says on the tin, serves as an introduction.
An unfortunate example for a book published in 2020
pickWhew 😅…
I think philosophy is so tough for me because I‘m a consumptive reader; I‘m used to moving at a steady pace and when I dive into philosophy I‘m forced to slow down, to remind myself that these essays are not to be read once, but multiple times, to be discussed and dissected.
Anyway, despite its density, I‘m glad I read it. I‘ve had it for FOREVER having come across it in a library sale. It literally fell apart while reading it.
