bobobi11 Posted January 3, 2002 Share Posted January 3, 2002 I was just given a bunch of old books. I am so psyched, I can't wait to read them all. Check it out. Friedrich Nietzsche An Illustrated Biography - Ivo Frenzel The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State - Frederick Engels Social Justice - A collection of essays Nietzsche The Man and His Philosophy - R.J. Hollingdale Human Aggression - Anthony Starr The Greek Philosophers From Thales to Aristotle - WKC Guthrie The Problem of Knowledge - AJ Ayer I will let you know how they are. I should be able to skim most of them tonight and have a good idea whether they are worth my time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devilush Posted January 3, 2002 Share Posted January 3, 2002 ahhhhh good ole Nietzsche.....mental invalid and i have already had that conversation!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rental Posted January 3, 2002 Share Posted January 3, 2002 sounds like some dense books Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeaztieGirl Posted January 3, 2002 Share Posted January 3, 2002 hey let me know on that human aggression... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BwareUfDogg! Posted January 4, 2002 Share Posted January 4, 2002 Anything about Aggression workd for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanity Posted January 4, 2002 Share Posted January 4, 2002 i just started reading some book called sick puppy... it's kinda wack. it's made for people that label themselves strictly as 'liberal,' and want to feel smart and laugh at other political thoughts... bu ti have nothin better to read. i hate science fiction Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jah Posted January 4, 2002 Share Posted January 4, 2002 read "catch 22" and a "confederacy of dunces". i dont read as much as i should but i have read these two books and i dont think ill ever read a better book. if u wanna increase ur wittiness read catch 22. if u wanna have a fancy vocabulary like seek, read a confederacy of dunces. theyre funny as fuck too. peace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeking Posted January 4, 2002 Share Posted January 4, 2002 i recently picked up a couple books on hinduism cause i recently decided it may very well be the best religion ever. ok, maybe not, but its pretty damn fresh. goodnight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Obsessed Posted January 4, 2002 Share Posted January 4, 2002 i dunno if its new but my friend just bought a simpsons philosophy book i was reading some of it and its damn good, hopefully he will finish with it soon so i can get my hands on it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mental invalid Posted January 4, 2002 Share Posted January 4, 2002 .....hahahahah....that shit was funny dev when you dropped that quote on my head as i was reading beyond good and evil, which i still have not gotten beyond! he is always good for a solid head fuck though...nietzsche ahhhh....sounds like a good list there...heard stephen hawking has got a new book out....im sure its great...r Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bumdigger Posted January 4, 2002 Share Posted January 4, 2002 universe in a nutshell - steven hawking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_El Mamerro Posted January 4, 2002 Share Posted January 4, 2002 Originally posted by Vanity i just started reading some book called sick puppy... it's kinda wack. it's made for people that label themselves strictly as 'liberal,' and want to feel smart and laugh at other political thoughts... bu ti have nothin better to read. i hate science fiction Is that Carl Hiaasen's Sick Puppy? Ok, but not his best. Native Tounge and Striptease are much better, although the latter was horribly defaced with Demi Moore's wack movie. Beer, El Mamerro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abracadabra Posted January 4, 2002 Share Posted January 4, 2002 i'll wait for the movie to come out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobobi11 Posted January 4, 2002 Author Share Posted January 4, 2002 I'm with ya Mammero, if that is Carl Hiaasen that is a fresh book. It all comes down to the Rhino Horn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krs702 Posted January 4, 2002 Share Posted January 4, 2002 the tin drum-gunter grass this man knows how to write in detail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobobi11 Posted January 4, 2002 Author Share Posted January 4, 2002 First couple of paragraphs from the Human Agression Book That man is an aggressive creature will hardly be disputed. With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate habitually takes positive pleasure in the exercise of cruelty upon another of his own kind. We generally describe the most repulsive examples of man's cruelty as brutal or bestial, implying by these adjectives that such behavior is characteristic of less highly developed animals than ourselves. In truth, however, the extremes of 'brutal' behaviour are confined to man; and there is no parallel in nature to our savage treatment of each other. The sombre fact is that we are the cruellest and most ruthless species that has ever walked the earth; and that, although we may recoil in horror when we read in newspaper or history book of the atrocities committed by man upon man, we know in our hearts that each one of us harbours within himself those same savage impulses which lead to murder, to torture and to war. To write about human aggression is a difficult task because the term is used in so many different senses. Aggression is one of those words which everyone knows, but which is nevertheless hard to define. As psychologists and psychiatrists use it, it covers a very wide range of human behaviour. The red-faced infant squalling for the bottle is being aggressive; and so is the judge who awards a thirty-year sentence for robbery. The guard in a concentration camp who tortures his helpless victim is obviously acting aggressively. Less manifestly, but no less certainly is the neglected wife who threatens or attempts suicide in order to regain her husband's affection. When a word becomes so diffusely applied that it is used both of the competitive striving of a footballer and also the bloody violence of a murderer, it ought either to be dropped or else more closely defined. Aggression is a portmanteau term which is fairly bursting at its seams. Yet, until we can more clearly designate and comprehend the various aspects of human behaviour which are subsumed under this heard, we cannot discard the concept. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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