Quotes and personal reflections from and regarding the essay by Albert Camus. This is from a Vintage paperback in translation. I believe that the translator is O’Brien, but the text is secondhand and the ntroductory page is ripped out.
Few novels in recent years have had such a profound effect on such a wide and varied readership as the Harry Potter series. Since the first installment’s publication in 1997, J.K Rowling’s readers have waited with bated breath for each new release of her eponymous hero’s magical adventures. Joseph Campbell, a professor of comparative mythology, suggests that the stories that consistently enchant the human imagination possess an identical structure he calls “the monomyth”. Can Harry Potter draw his magic from ancient sources?
A refreshing look at the arguments for God, along with up-to-date answers to some of the age-old objections.
A review of the bestselling Hyperion Omnibus, combining the novels “Hyperion” and “The Fall of Hyperion”.
My thoughts on the book Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman. This is not quite a review of the book, but a brief tap into a couple of the philosophical themes it contains.
The 10 Books that Screwed Up the World and five Others that Didn’t Help by Dr. Benjamin Wiker is an intriguing read for those brave souls with a penchant for philosophy or the history of western civilization. From these fifteen pernicious books Dr. Wiker makes a case for how godless atheistic philosophies have been malevolently used by those in power to promulgate massive human suffering in the 20th century. Infamous authors of these malevolent books include Machiavell’s The Prince, Hitler’s Mein Kampf, The Communist Manisfesto by Karl Marx, The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin, Future of an Illusion by Sigmond Freud, Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche, The Pivot of Civilization by Margret Sanger, and Sexual Behavior of the Human Male by Alfred Kinsey.
The deals with comparing MacBeth with different philosopher’s points of view.
How do the poems by Frost and Larkin fit in with our nature as interpreted by Plato, Hobbes, and Rousseau?
A short list of the most important philosophers and their works.
