7/6/2023 0 Comments Simon blackburn think summaryPhilosophy deals with these kinds of big questions that give us plenty of food for thought and can go ever so deep. If we exist – do we have free will? What are the arguments for God and what are the criticisms of those arguments? How do we know what is really true? What is just? What is knowledge? You might have wondered how we know other people are just like us and not zombies. You might have wondered how we know we exist, how we know we’re not in a simulation if our mind is separate from our body, separate from our soul. If you have the desire to know, this is a book for you. „ Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy“ is a book for people who are at least on some level aware that there are great mysteries and big questions about various topics and wish to move at least a bit beyond that awareness. The title of this book is very appropriate. In fact, it is so good that this will be a second post about it. If you have read almost any blog post here that deals with any philosophy, like Pascal’s wager, cosmological argument or ontological argument, you had a chance to notice that in each of those posts, I recommended this book. And this time it’s a very dear book, as it’s one of the first books, if not THE first I read on philosophy.
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Bursting with detail, filled with subversive readings of such seasonal classics as "A Visit from St. Nicholas to the Christmas tree and, perhaps most radically, the practice of giving gifts to children. In this intriguing and innovative work of social history, Stephen Nissenbaum rediscovers Christmas's carnival origins and shows how it was transformed, during the nineteenth century, into a festival of domesticity and consumerism.ĭrawing on a wealth of period documents and illustrations, Nissenbaum charts the invention of our current Yuletide traditions, from St. The Puritans had their reasons, since Christmas was once an occasion for drunkenness and riot, when poor "wassailers extorted food and drink from the well-to-do. Anyone who laments the excesses of Christmas might consider the Puritans of colonial Massachusetts: they simply outlawed the holiday. We must also observe closely points of this kind, that even the secondary effects of Nature's processes possess a sort of grace and attraction. Accordingly we must press forward, not only because every day we are drawing nearer to death, but also because the apprehension of events and the ability to adapt ourselves to them begin to wane before the end.Ģ. For, if the mind begin to decay, there will be no failure of functions like transpiration, nutrition, sense-impression, and desire but the right employment of ourselves, precision in regard to the related elements of duty, analysis of the indications of sense, to know just whether the time is come to take leave of life, and all questions of the kind which specially require a trained judgement,-these are extinguished before the rest. We ought to take into account not only the fact that day by day life is being spent and a smaller balance remaining, but this further point also that, should we live longer, it is at least doubtful whether the intellect will hereafter be the same, still sufficient to comprehend events and the speculation which contributes to the understanding alike of things divine and human. 7/6/2023 0 Comments Robert louis stevenson donkeyIn 1878, the Scottish author had yet to write Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. This is how director Caroline Vignal’s comedy begins, following a rather hopeless fortysomething with a taste for terrible love interests, who finally finds herself when she unwittingly stumbles in the footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson. The first encounter with her very own donkey is just as hilarious. Armed with a pink suitcase and wedge sandals, the Parisienne sticks out among the other hikers wearing rain ponchos and sturdy boots. No matter! Antoinette packs her bags and boards a bus to Chasseradès in the heart of the Lozère département, looking for her lover. They plan to spend a week together while his wife (Olivia Côte) is away, but she cancels her trip to the Ile de Ré at the last minute to take her family hiking with a donkey in the middle of France. Antoinette Lapouge, an elementary school teacher played brilliantly by Laure Calamy (Noémie in Call My Agent!), is desperately in love with Vladimir (Benjamin Lavernhe from the Comédie-Française), the married father of one of her students. The Golem is a clay creature constructed by a corrupt Kabalist near the city of Danzig, at the behest of Otto Rotfeld, an unsuccessful and unattractive young man. In doing so she has transported old world legend to a place where and a time when vast numbers of more ordinary people were trying to create new dreams, new legends of their own, immigrant New York City at end of the 19th century. Helene Wecker has written a very grown up fairy tale, bringing to life a pair of magical beings. They dilate our pupils, excite our imagination and provide the fodder for our dreams. And, as I maintain only one identity on GR, the result is two, two, two reviews in one.Įveryone loves legends, lore, tales of long ago, filled with heroes and magical beings. These two takes seemed to call for different reviews. But it is pretty clear that this is also a serious, literary work, raising meaningful philosophical questions, while using the folklore of two different cultures to inform the immigrant experience, offering a fascinating look at a place and time, and linking the experiences of the old and new worlds. I found The Golem and the Jinni to be a fun, magical fairy tale of a romance with a fair bit of excitement to it. I am trying something a little different here. But if she's going to move past this jealousy, she'll need to reconcile how she and Ridge came together with the fact that Maggie will always be in their lives somehow.or end up walking away from the man she loves so much. Maggie keeps Ridge updated on her adventures, but he can't help but worry, even as Sydney grows more and more suspicious about their friendship. When she comes across an old list of things she wanted to do "maybe one of these days," Maggie decides to live life to the fullest and accomplish these dreams. But as the two of them navigate this freedom, Warren and Bridgette's relationship is as tumultuous as ever, and Maggie grapples with her illness. What is more important? Friendship, loyalty, or love? Ridge and Sydney are thrilled to finally be together guilt-free. The long-awaited finale to the New York Times bestselling Maybe Someday series returns with all the characters you fell in love with. 7/5/2023 0 Comments Armistead maupin booksMaupin said he was a typical conservative and segregationist at this time and admired Helms as a hero figure. Helms nominated Maupin for a patriotic award, which Maupin won. Maupin worked at WRAL-TV in Raleigh, a station managed by future U.S. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he wrote for The Daily Tar Heel. Maupin attended Ravenscroft School and graduated from Needham Broughton High School in 1962. His father, Armistead Jones Maupin, founded Maupin, Taylor & Ellis, one of the largest law firms in North Carolina. His great-great-grandfather, Congressman Lawrence O'Bryan Branch, was from North Carolina and was a railroad executive and a Confederate general during the American Civil War. Maupin was born in Washington, D.C., to Diana Jane (Barton) and Armistead Jones Maupin. ( / ˈ m ɔː p ɪ n/ MAW-pin) (born May 13, 1944) is an American writer notable for Tales of the City, a series of novels set in San Francisco. Recorded September 2007 from the BBC Radio 4 programme BookclubĪrmistead Jones Maupin, Jr. And it’s about what happens when the outside world brutally calls into question the very thing closest to our hearts: family. It’s about people wanting to do the right thing for the greater good, even as they work to fulfill their own personal desires and dreams. Sing You Home is about identity, love, marriage, and parenthood. When an unexpected friendship slowly blossoms into love, she makes plans for a new life, but to her shock and inevitable rage, some people-even those she loves and trusts most-don’t want that to happen. In the aftermath of a series of personal tragedies, Zoe throws herself into her career as a music therapist. In the aftermath of a series of personal. A dirge that marked the years she spent trying to get pregnant.įor better or for worse, music is the language of memory. Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult available in Trade Paperback on, also read synopsis and reviews. A dance beat that makes her think of using a fake ID to slip into a nightclub. Music has set the tone for most of Zoe Baxter’s life. 2011: Sing You Home Atria Jodi Picoults 2011 release, 'Sing You Home,' focuses on a lesbian couple who is fighting for the right to start a family. There’s the melody that reminds her of the summer she spent rubbing baby oil on her stomach in pursuit of the perfect tan. ISBN-13: 9781439102725 Summary Every life has a soundtrack. Music has set the tone for most of Zoe Baxter’s life. From the award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author whom USA TODAY calls a “master of the page-turner,” comes the spectacular story of a woman’s complex quest to form a family.Įvery life has a soundtrack. 7/5/2023 0 Comments Fingersmith novelIts central character, Susan, is a pickpocket. Fingersmith was published in 2002, a thriller and love story set among petty thieves and criminals in 1860s London. This book won a Somerset Maugham Award for Lesbian and Gay Fiction and a Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award in 2000, and was adapted for television in 2008. Her second novel, Affinity (1999), is a darker novel set in a London women's prison, and explores the Victorian world of spiritualism. This book was adapted into a drama serial by Andrew Davies, and received much press attention when it was shown on BBC TV in 2002. In 1998, her first novel Tipping the Velvet was published - a picaresque adventure based around Victorian music hall, with a lesbian love story at its centre. She has since written three novels set in Victorian England, for which she has received high praise from both mainstream reviewers and the gay and lesbian press. While working on her Ph.D thesis, she became increasingly interested in London life of the nineteenth century, and began writing fiction. She then gained a Ph.D in English Literature, her field of study being lesbian and gay historical fiction, and also had articles on gender, sexuality and history published in a number of journals. She studied English Literature at the universities of Kent and Lancaster, after which she worked in bookshops and libraries, before returning to postgraduate study. Sarah Waters was born in 1966 in Pembrokeshire, Wales. 7/4/2023 0 Comments Whispering statueI think many readers could enjoy the escapism, humor, light-heartedness, and wit that comes with these Carolyn Keene novels. It takes place at a seaside restore, and there are many exciting challenges like an almost-wrecked sailboat, attempted kidnapping, and a grumpy, perhaps even dangerous boss. “The Whispering Statue” also features popular characters like Bess and George, Ned, and more. These make for great chapter books for youth because of the fun settings, positive themes, and many thrills. I had outgrown Encyclopedia Brown and was looking for a new mystery series when Mom ran across some of her old Nancy Drew books at my grandparents house. It may be under 200 pages, with additional illustrations, but it’s packed full of characters, conflicts, crises, and a nifty little conclusion. There’s a swindler of rare books, a copy-cat sculptor, a missing whispering statue, and even a secret identity wrapped up in this book. DVDs and Cds have been resurfaced and are guaranteed to play. Nancy always discovers the truth just in time, and this story is no different! All Books are in good readable condition. It was cheeky balanced with the usual excitement and suspense, and I love the resolute endings to such bizarre occurrences. Since the book had been rated as 'very good' I had expected that 'very good' meant that it had a dust jacket on it. “The Whispering Statue” is the first Nancy Drew book that I’ve re-read that I found myself getting lost in. When I received the Nancy Drew book, The Whispering Statue,I was a little disappointed. |