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Another Good Book
Beyond Good and Evil By Friedrich Nietzsche.
http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/Nietzsche/beyondgoodandevil_tofc.htm
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A short history of world by H. G. Wells.
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A movie called 'what the bleep we know'.ther is another documentary in 3 discs to explain the concepts in the movie by the name of 'what the bleep we know, the rabbit hole', Its religion and philosophy explained in terms of science.
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Amovie called'what the bleep we know'
To explain the concepts in this movie there is another documentary in 3 discs'what the bleep we know'down the rabbit hole'
its philosophy and science blended together
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Greek philosphy is one of the famous philosphy around. Socretes i believe is one of the greatest with wisdom and philosphy. I believe he was actually a prophet and he preached through philosphy.
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^ There's no instance in history which gives a hint that Socrates was a Prophet. Yes, he was a learned man and a master of different contemporary philosophical sciences.
It should be argued that the role of Socrates in history has been largely inflated due to Plato's reverance for his master and partly due to over attention paid to Greek Philosophy by Western scholars till to date.
If you read Plato's "The Republic", you would notice that Socrates had dialogues with different personalities of his time on intriguing issues. Many scholars hold that these are not Socrates' own words, rather these are Plato's words which are articulated in the language and diction of his master.
Also remember that Socrates was more good at articulation and less at genuine arguing. Or should I say that he was more a player of words than a proponent of philosophical labyrinths. He could logically prove that it is day when it was night, and night when it was mid-day, and no one could possibly counter his arguments.
If you ask my opinion, among Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, I hold Aristotle in high esteem and regard him more learned and wise then both of his predecessors.
Blessed be. . .
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but if you deeply study the Life and Character of Socrates its quit diffrent than Plato and Airstotle, Plato infact took what Socrates taught later and managed to get his thing going.
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My remark is the outcome of considerable study of Socrates and his contemporaries. I don't want to dive so headlong into ancient philosophy that I end up undersestimating medieval chunk, as mistakingly done by Western scholars for ages till to date.
Yeah each one of them is quite different from one another. Socrates was mentor and teacher of Plato. Plato respected his master so much that many of his ideas and works are articulated in Socrates's language [as I already said above] and thus, were wrongly associated with Socrates. This point reduces Socrates' intellectual height to quiet an extent.
Plato refined and then added alot to Socrates' works, but as I said, Aristotle was one step ahead of both of them in identifying, formulating, conceptualising and articulating pure philosophical structures based on sound reason and accurate logic. Be it known to people that this does not preclude Aristotle from making mistakes, sometimes extremely grave.
Thanks for your response bro,
Wasslam
Dante
Danté:
An excellent read.
I recall reading that during my teenage years. Brilliant. But also anti–Islamic (simply a warning to others who may wish to venture down this path).
I’d recommend: Colonialism/Postcolonialism by Ania Loomba. A well–written introduction to, and account of, colonialism and postcolonialism, their relevance in today’s world, and issues related to these (sexuality, racial divisions, capitalism, globalisation).
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mindfullness by Ellen J. Langer
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Another Good Book Beyond Good and Evil By Friedrich Nietzsche.
I like your taste.
Also, The Antichrist by Nietzche.
The God Delusion- Richard Dawkins.
Brave New World (Huxley) and Fight Club (Pahlaniuk) (I know, not typical philosophy, but still damn good)
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If you guys are interested in reading original philosophical work, I would recommend *“La Nausée” by J.P. Sartre. *It is as good an introduction as any if you are interested in his existentialism. In addition, he wrote many other novels and essays, so finding stuff on him should not be hard and I would strongly recommend it in fact.
As for just a website with resources/info and academic commentary, this resource by Stanford University is by far the best on the internet. It doesn’t offer the “chain linked” flexibility or the up-to-dateness of Wikipedia but it is infinitely more professional and insightful. I’ve yet to find a better resource (or something even remotely similar).
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i have not read all of the posts to this but the few that i read have not mentioned anything about Platos's works. ofcourse if you want to read philosophy you must start with him. his dialogues are good. apology( socrate's defense in the court that was to poison him later) phaedo( about soul) and symposium should not be missed. you can all find them on the internet free of cost.
I'm with Insha_Ji.
The first philosophy book I ever read was Euthyphro, apology, and Credo about Socrates.
I immediately swithched to Philosophy.
I wasn't crazy about them all. I loved Plato. Aristotle. and then I liked Kierkegaard,
and was fascinated by Neitsche, & GWF Hegel,
but others were either boring, tedious, or "off base".
Socrates still holds my heart, because - to me, his dialectics were brilliant,
practical, searching for truth or the highest wisdom, and they
rose to the level where they could only be answered by the gods.
Frank
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"Sofie's World"..... a book about history of philosophy which everyone can read since it is written in a novel style. Lovely lovely book! Highly recommended for any age!