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i hope my defence of my right to read is done in way that is loving caring and faccilitating of Duncan and his right to offensive or challenging stretching free speech [as an academic that is]
thanks for your support which is meaningful to me Richard B

what i am able to read depends on what is library so maybe i should post books up so folks know my limits. (my aspirations are endless) wacky idea if a book is urgent then nothing exists to stop people from sending book free to read, evaluate and then send back, making another form of democratization of the academy's output which can be as complicated abstract and obscure as you like!!

and draft research thingy which i could expose as far as possible to PN for support suggestions (actual available pdf of papers etc papers MUST be accesible to non uni denizens such as myself or else text copies of papers in your possession to enlighten, likewise yours truly could be doing quite a lot of paper sending via pdf platform!!!!
nb i hope rick lewis does not mind me I probably break every rule of academia known and unknown to mind in my vicarious and hopefully not misguided pursuit of genuine theory and genuine learning at bog standard disciplinary level.

Dear Amateur Philosopher,

I did say 'please'! I won't be VERY offended if you ignore my advice.

Richard Baron wrote:

amateurphilosophynerd wrote: I WILL DEFEND MY RIGHT TO READ CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHERS INDEED ANY PHILOSOPHERS AND ANY BOOKS THAT TAKES MY FANCY INCLUDING SHOCK HORROR AS CHRISTIAN BANNED BOOKS!!!!!

Quite right too. Descartes' Meditations was on the Roman Catholic Index of Prohibited Books right up until the Index ceased to have binding force in 1966. (Its memory lives on as a warning that some books might be a danger to faith or morals.)

Richard
might your Projects and Values Project support my Project based academic work whatever its flaws and deficiencies and need to learn???
anyone can correct me I may disagree.
like anyone on this forum i would be overjoyed if rick lewis one day asked me to pen an article for PN. yours sticking up for the amateur would be hopefully talented and correctly directed philosophic community!!!!

Duncan Butlin wrote:Dear Amateur Philosopher,

I did say 'please'! I won't be VERY offended if you ignore my advice.

thank you Duncan,
rich blessings on ya mat
I do so in a spirit of love and care and having to take a stand.

I am reading 'Kearney and Rainwater. The Continental Philosophy Reader so I get short representative extracts from all the big guns in Continental Philosophy.

I recently finished both "steppenwolf" and "siddhartha" by hermann hesse

Steppenwolf was wonderful. I loved every page of it.

Siddartha was a little stranger but a great catalyst for spiritual thoughts.

I'm reading, and have almost finished, Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder; it's a fictional-novel that also serves as a kind-of introduction into philosophy. It's okay, started off a little slowly, I'm now reading it more to see how it ends than actually enjoying the narrative or style of the book.

The Scientific Conquest of Death:Essays of Infinite Lifespans by the Immortality Institute

I've moved onto Hume's Enquiry, very good (as would be expected).

I am now going to read 'Sources of the Self' The Making of the Modern Identity' Charles Taylor an Ethical Philosopher in the Analytic Tradition, I have now put Kearney and Rainwater The Continental Philosophy Reader to one side (chock full of various emancipatory philosopher excerpts) and this is my first foray into Analytic Philosophy of which I am ignorant; in the name of ethics and emancipation, and new reformulated approach to long-standing Research Draft Proposal (mental health) in the emancipatory tradition (sound but emancipatory that is)
NOTE: I am NOT at University, I am NOT any kind of Student, but in theory done well; perhaps this could form a form of preparation as a Research and learning based Project-I am profoundly grateful to my Professor Stepmum for suggesting the above books and that of Martha Nussbaum with whom I will share my notes and deepest intellectual thinkings on the too long-standing Project.

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'Mutants' by Armand Marie Leroi

All philosophers should read it.

Mary Shelley a link might be good and maybe justify your choice of this particular book for us would be Philosophers (the book mode) and philosphizing philosophers the invent a new turn etc to it. cheers!

Link? Library no longer the place to visit for books?

Justify?
Does all 'philosophers should read it' not kick it?

How about:

I think I am a philospher and I think it is very good?