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Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction | Edward Craig

Recent acquisitions:

📖 Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction by Edward Craig
📖 Beauty: A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton

#UniteAgainstBookBans and #LetUtahRead

rwmg 😨 Why were they banned? 1w

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UnderworldAmusements

Twilight of the Idols | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“Let unholy hands keep aloof from inspired writings, let the laity believe in their old religions and their new philosophies, and let Nietzsche be the philosopher for those only who have to stand alone, but who for this very reason need an example and perhaps a guide more than any other.“ ~Oscar Levy

UnderworldAmusements This booklet contains a sketch of the figures that introduced and often propagandized the German philosopher's work to the Anglosphere. SA1095 of the Union of Egoists' 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑨𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒆 journal series. Limited Edition of 66.

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Blind Date: Sex and Philosophy | Anne Dufourmantelle

How cute is this blind date with a book display? The store includes bookmarks and stickers with each wrapped book. Adorable!

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Thus Spake Zarathustra | Friedrich Nietzsche

#Nietzsche #Birthday #Philosophy

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What is Philosophy? | Jose Ortega y Gasset

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The Gang of Three : Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Ancient Wisdom | Neel Burton

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The Gang of Three : Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Ancient Wisdom | Neel Burton

The_Book_Ninja

Thus Spoke Zarathustra | Friedrich Nietzsche

I went to the recycling centre this morning. Always worth looking in the wheelie bin of books to see if someone is throwing away a gem. I gazed into this last bin in the line…and the bin gazed also into me!

Bookwomble "And if you contend against dustbins, beware that you do not yourself become a dustbin!" I used to have that edition, but it's long since gone - never read it ? Did you liberate it? 5mo

The_Book_Ninja @Bookwomble No…as I shuffle towards the great library in the sky, I want to spend my remaining days reading for enjoyment🤣 5mo

Bookwomble @The_Book_Ninja Ah, but maybe you should have taken that Vintage copy of Mervyn Peak's Gormenghast trilogy to read later this year 🧐 I would have left the Nietzsche (he's had his chance with me), but I'd have taken the copy of Six Yuan Plays at the back there. Somebody's dumping some good shit in that bin! 5mo

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The_Book_Ninja @Bookwomble there were 5 bins, filled to the top…I was overwhelmed ☺️ 5mo

Bookwomble @The_Book_Ninja I'd be turning up with a shopping trolley! 😄 5mo

The_Book_Ninja @Bookwomble there‘s a lot of crap in there and you have to move fast, they don‘t like salvaging in this centre..😳 I don‘t know if they‘re all like that. The Gormenghast had a badly creased cover. I don‘t mind a old, yellowing book but I can‘t be dealing with creased covers 5mo

Bookwomble Please ignore me - I don't always know when a joke's stopped being funny 🙃 5mo

The_Book_Ninja @Bookwomble Ignore my Litsy twin! 🤣Don‘t worry..I‘ll assume it‘s all jokes unless you use an angry emoji😡 5mo

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Susanita

A Discourse on Method | Rene Descartes

A quote I saved from Litsy a few years ago…

#wondrouswednesday

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Ruthiella Nice! Reading is like time travel. 6mo

Susanita @Ruthiella Yes! Well put. 6mo

Cathythoughts Nice one ❤️ 6mo

Eggs Very nice👏🏻👏🏻 6mo

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Dilara

Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy | Simon Blackburn

Probably of limited interest to non-French people, but the baccalaureate philosophy exam started at 8 this morning, and the essay questions are now out:

Vocational stream
Is Nature hostile to Man
Is the artist master of their own work

Academic stream
Can science satisfy our need for truth
Does the State owe us anything

Inspired or not?

Thinking of all those teenagers sweating on their exam papers in many different parts of the world...

Kitta As a scientist, I‘m definitely interested in these questions! I feel that science can give us the answers and can tell us the truth, but that maybe we won‘t reach them in our lifetimes and we‘ll have to wait for the next generation to understand. It‘s a frustrating reality that progress can be slow. 6mo

IuliaC These are very relevant questions 6mo

SaunteringVaguelyDownwards "Is the artist master of their own work?" is taking all sorts of new nuance with AI! 6mo

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Dilara @Kitta Slow and every new discovery or insight brings about new questions! It's neverending... 6mo

Dilara @IuliaC Definitely! 6mo

Dilara @SaunteringVaguelyDownwards Oh, I hadn't thought of that 😁 6mo

Dilara For whoever is interested, Le Monde newspaper published essay examples for some of these questions: https://www.lemonde.fr/campus/live/2024/06/18/en-direct-bac-philo-2024-un-enseig... 6mo

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