What Are You Reading?

coco · Post by **coco** » 08 Jul 2023, 16:30

gaining_age wrote: ↑08 Jul 2023, 16:02
coco wrote: ↑08 Jul 2023, 12:08
gaining_age wrote: ↑08 Jul 2023, 10:41
Excellent! I'd make a physics joke here but nobody would get it.
He lived at 1/137 Eddington Drive.
No... that was Wolfgang Pauli... excellent observation, though. Ok, it wasn't his address.. but 137 was the room he passed away in.

Pauli and Sommerfeld were real physicists, but Eddington was a joke, and thus deserves to be in one. At any rate, Lederman's address near Fermilab was 137.

Wosbald · Post by **Wosbald** » 20 Jul 2023, 21:18

+JMJ+

And now, a short detour before finishing up my engagement with Hegel …

Siblings All, Sign of the Times: The Social Teaching of Pope Francis by Cardinal Michael Czerny and Christian Barone

Wosbald · Post by **Wosbald** » 01 Aug 2023, 01:21

+JMJ+

Time to finish-up my tour with Hegel:

Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion: One-Volume Edition: The Lectures of 1827 by G.W.F. Hegel

After this, I'll hafta decide whether to proceed genealogically with Marx or proceed chronologically with Schopenhauer. Prolly will end up going genealogically and go with Schopenhauer afterwards.

coco · Post by **coco** » 01 Aug 2023, 15:50

The Tale of Gengi - Murasaki Shikibu

coco · Post by **coco** » 21 Aug 2023, 15:14

I just finished the Sprawl Trilogy: Neuromancer, Count Zero, and Mona Lisa Overdrive.

Recommended.

FredS · Post by **FredS** » 22 Aug 2023, 06:17

Scott Sadil is one of my favorite writers. This is one of those books about fishing that's not about fishing.

Wosbald · Post by **Wosbald** » 21 Sep 2023, 08:37

+JMJ+

Selected Writings by Karl Marx (ed. Lawrence H. Simon)

JimVH · Post by **JimVH** » 21 Sep 2023, 08:47

Nameless, Season 2, book 4
Dean Koontz

JimVH · Post by **JimVH** » 23 Oct 2023, 08:29

Financial and Accounting Guide for Not-for-Profit Organizations, Fifth Edition
Gross, Larkin, Bruttomesso, and McNally

I just posted this to make y'all jealous of how much fun I'm having at work today.

Del · Post by **Del** » 24 Oct 2023, 12:05

Wosbald wrote: ↑01 Aug 2023, 01:21 +JMJ+

Time to finish-up my tour with Hegel:

Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion: One-Volume Edition: The Lectures of 1827 by G.W.F. Hegel

After this, I'll hafta decide whether to proceed genealogically with Marx or proceed chronologically with Schopenhauer. Prolly will end up going genealogically and go with Schopenhauer afterwards.

Chesterton never tired of making fun of the depressing Schopenhauer.
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Our local Chesterton Society is reading The Well and the Shallows. Written in 1935, it is a survey of developments in the last dozen years that would absolutely compel him to enter the Catholic Church (had he not already done so in 1922).

I just started reading Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian Wars. Pipeson really enjoyed it, as it has so many applications to the problems of our time.

King of Sparta (to the delegation from Athens): "We are wise. We are not so highly educated that we disregard the traditions of our ancestors."