philosophy
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Solving ‘How to Solve It’
I hit the ground running when I started George Pólya‘s How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method. Somewhere in the middle, the momentum disappeared, and months later, I feel so relieved to have finished it. For all that, I give it 5 out of 5 stars…yes, indeed, why?? This is a math/logic/philosophy… Continue reading
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Meditations with Marcus Aurelius
Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. One of my methods of minimizing bias in my readings and reviews is to avoid introductions. For Meditations (tr. by George Long), I made an exception since the biographical note was at… Continue reading
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Notes from Underground
© Yanis Chilov [CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons My introduction to Fyodor Dostoyevsky was through (surprise!) Crime and Punishment. Unable to swallow its psychopathic elements, I gave up just when the story was picking up and could not, in fact, bring myself to finish it. Fast-forward to summer/fall 2011 – I was taking History of Russia… Continue reading
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Orthodoxy
If it is difficult to review a book that is nonfiction and follows a less-than-linear outline, then it is doubly difficult to review such a book from the Christian apologetics genre. And, naturally, one must explain a rating of 5 out of 5 stars. G. K. Chesterton‘s Orthodoxy is an account of how he came… Continue reading
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