Sorry - I was doing the book list for Title/Fun Value Only. If you are looking for serious discussion on philosophy, Ben might consider the works of these philosophers:
*Bertrand Russell - "Philosophy is the no-man's land between science and theology, exposed to attack from both sides."
*Pythagoras, basically thought 1) The soul is immortal and is tranformed into other living things - whatever comes into existance is born from the revolutions of a certain cycle - or in otherwords, nothing is absolutely new 2) All things are numbers
*Plato's simile of The Cave would be in there on the shelf.
*Aristotle's works on Metaphysics, Ethics, Politics, Biology, and Poetics
*Descartes' idea of "Cogito Ergo Sum"
*Locke's ideas of "Tabla Rasa" and individual liberty
*Voltaire's "Noble Savage" thinking
Kant's Thinking Cap
Hegel's Famous "The Real is Rational & the Rational is Real"
What do you think? Not that Ben would agree with all of these, but read them for perspective....
__________________
So many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
|