Liam Bright Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Eyes turning into love hearts, steam coming out of my ears, somehow floating prone in mid air as I say "wowsa!", all caused by the sight of my copy of Gyeke's Philosophy, Culture, and Vision finally arriving.

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RT @tairyhestees: @lastpositivist still better than Frank Herbert's "songs" in Dune

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Hmm that's actually very hard! There's a collection of essays called social epistemology edited by Alvin Goldman. But maybe better still there are some books I happen to know are in the works, so watch this space ... https://t.co/WW2tsQCjky

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2. Melinda Cooper's book Family Values is a great run down of how it is that cultural conservative politics uphold can economic order even when they might seem to lack an intrinsic connection to the maintenance of contemporary capitalism. https://t.co/3DlM5OE9Xe

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Reading Henry Sidgwick's The Methods of Ethics. It's actually pretty good. I'm reliably very Basic about Philosophical or Artistic classics. I tend to just like the stuff everyone says is good 🤷🏽

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RT @zenahitz: MORE: Catherine Project reading groups-- all on Zoom! Who is God? Who am I? Martin Buber, I and Thou, Wednesdays 8 - 10…

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RT @SpinellaJake: You, a hopeless normie rube: “What’s your favorite James Joyce work? Mine is Ulysses!” Me, a refined intellectual: https…

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RT @nescio13: I point out to my students that Thomas More seems to invent the 'work ethic' in Utopia and that he is a Catholic Saint:)

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RT @yellow_dusk: (reading pierre menand's don quixote) getting a lot of miguel de cervantes' don quixote vibes from this

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@brettkarlan Also it just seems that some of humanity's greatest cultural goods are to be found in their philosophy. The world would be poorer in an important way without Plato's Republic or the Zhuangzi.