zppx

Book recommendations

9 books

zppx · Jul 10, 2010
a powerful book, it's dense and you can only drag many conclusions from it when you read other works from Nietzsche
zppx · Jul 10, 2010
it's dense, and obscure to some extent, but it's really eye-opener
zppx · Jul 10, 2010
it defied much of my established view on how Mathematics works.
zppx · Jul 10, 2010
this is for me the most important of the 5 books that I have read from Nietzsche
zppx · Jul 10, 2010
Organon, it's a compilation of Aristotle's logic works, they are the basis for the logical thought of the Western civilization, I think it's easier to read the originals than compendiums.
zppx · Jul 10, 2010
the book basically addresses how our current beliefs and customs, which he calls traditions, plays an important part in our hermeneutics
zppx · Jul 10, 2010
Inquiry into the Human Mind, by Thomas Reid is a good read and also a staunch defense of the common sense.
zppx · Jul 10, 2010
this book of William Alston is a good refinement if you already know some epistemology
zppx · Jul 10, 2010
Pirkei Avot, it's a section of the Mishnah (a part of the Talmud), it summarizes the jewish moral thought