I am not an avid self-help reader so I try my best to carefully pick what I read from this genre.
The Power of Habit is an absolute masterpiece of whatI am not an avid self-help reader so I try my best to carefully pick what I read from this genre.
The Power of Habit is an absolute masterpiece of what self-help is supposed to offer.
By every means, this book is as pragmatic as it gets. Every chapter offers digestible parcels on how habits shape our behavior and the science behind it. Each chapter builds on the previous chapter leading to a beautiful and pragmatic set of ideas on how to make habits work in our favour.
This is just another self-help book. The profanity is the major selling point. Just as any other self-help book, it gives you a brief and vague sense This is just another self-help book. The profanity is the major selling point. Just as any other self-help book, it gives you a brief and vague sense of well-being. That's about it. You don't really recall any major take-home lessons here. Because, as I said, it is just another self-help book....more
Creepy stuff! A horror masterpiece by the one and only Junji Ito.
A failed war experiment leads to the emergence of nightmarish marine creatures that Creepy stuff! A horror masterpiece by the one and only Junji Ito.
A failed war experiment leads to the emergence of nightmarish marine creatures that begin their invasion in Okinawa and eventually take over the world. Things get surreal pretty quickly.
Dang! Finest existentialist writing for me so far...
Frankl, a psychiatrist, tells his horrors of the Nazi's concentration camps. As a Holocaust surviDang! Finest existentialist writing for me so far...
Frankl, a psychiatrist, tells his horrors of the Nazi's concentration camps. As a Holocaust survivor, he has lived the epitome of worldly suffering. Living a perpetual hell of hard labor from dawn to dusk, no food expect a daily bowl of soup, seeing his friends' emaciated corpses piled and fed to dogs, and daily assurance that his fate won't be any different. Despite being reduced to a naked laboring semi-living courpse, HE STILL FOUND MEANING TO LIFE.
This is existentialism par excellence. An ordinary human dragged into a harrowing abyss and stripped of everything save for his bare existence. Raw existentialism is what I call this. Harboring the will to exist despite nullified prospects for every mundane goal you ever cherished... Breaking the shackles of nihilism.
The second part of the book deals with a therapeutic technique developed by Frankl; Logotherapy. The theory is founded on the belief that human nature is motivated by the search for a life purpose. Logotherapy is the pursuit of that meaning for one's life. It has roots in Kierkegaard's existential philosophy. Good stuff.
Logic, along with ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics, is commonly considered to be among the main branches of philosophy. Any systematic approach tLogic, along with ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics, is commonly considered to be among the main branches of philosophy. Any systematic approach to learn philosophy should encompass a solid foundation building in logic. Philosophy is a fundamental component to all areas of human inquiry while logic is the fundamental basis on which philosophy itself operates.
This book is dense, Priest hasn't wasted any words. Lose the thread and you suddenly find yourself in need of rehearsing the entire chapter. The chapters cannot be read independently like many other books on this topic, they rather build upon the concepts that were introduced in the previous chapter. Yes, "Very Short" indeed, but impenetrable at times.
For some reason, Priest is especially fond of tinkering with the logic behind the arguments concerned with God's existence. ...more
Metaphysics is commonly regarded as one of the main branches of philosophy (alongside logic, ethics, and epistemology). For anyone who seeks to systemMetaphysics is commonly regarded as one of the main branches of philosophy (alongside logic, ethics, and epistemology). For anyone who seeks to systematically approach the study of philosophy, I can not recommend this book more highly.
It is concise, informative, profound, exceedingly witty, and an overall joy to read.
The clarity that Stephen Mumford was able to impart on a complicated subject that is often written about in a boring, muddled manner impressed me to no end. The even-handed way he deals with conflicting views is great.
So after a long break, I am back on GR. Feels good :)
Problems from Philosophy is a concise work on some of the pressing issues in philosophy. As an inSo after a long break, I am back on GR. Feels good :)
Problems from Philosophy is a concise work on some of the pressing issues in philosophy. As an introduction, this book does its job rather well. The language is not too academic, and it reads pretty quickly, but covers each topic in good depth. The appendix has a nice section on logic and arguments as well.
The topics covered include the existence of God, the nature of the mind, determinism, free-will, compatibilsm, the limits of knowledge, and ethics. It begins by reflecting on the life of the first great philosopher, Socrates. Then it takes up the fundamental question of whether God exists. Next comes a discussion of death and the soul, which leads to a chapter about persons. The later chapters of the book are about whether objective knowledge is possible in science and ethics.
Despite his great efforts in compressing complicated subjects into digestible chunks, his bias on many of the subjects stands out. Especially in the chapters dealing with ethics, he blatantly leaves out deontological approaches on morality and extensively expounds on Utilitarian morality.
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