This was a great modern fantasy that combines psionics and a druidic sort of love for nature with contemporary themes of fear and control...loved reading it! The characters were intriguing and well developed and made you want to follow their life-stories.
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Steven💉🌿🏨4All🚅🇺🇦 reviewed Moonheart by Charles de Lint
Review of 'Moonheart' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Steven💉🌿🏨4All🚅🇺🇦 reviewed Moral Principles in Education by John Dewey
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5 stars
This is a fantastic little book that is very easy to read though packed with philosophical claims and assumptions. In this book Dewey lays out what he sees as the problems of the concept and practice of primary education in the United States. Sadly the problems he addresses of standardization and the expectation of regurgitation of knowledge without any social or historical context have only become worse in the century since Dewey remarked on them. You don't have to be a philosopher to understand this text and it really should be a must read for all teachers, parents, policy makers and critics of the education system in America.
Also, if you are a more seasoned philosopher familiar with the ideas of Martin Heidegger, particularly in his work, Being and Time, you will recognize striking and uncanny similarities to Heidegger's revolutionary ideas.
Steven💉🌿🏨4All🚅🇺🇦 rated Philosophical investigations: 3 stars
Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophical investigations (1997, Blackwell)
Philosophical investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Posthumously published work by Wittgenstein, in which he came to overthrow some number of his earlier ideas as published in …
Steven💉🌿🏨4All🚅🇺🇦 reviewed All Things Shining by Sean Dorrance Kelly
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5 stars
This is a fantastic book based in phenomenological thought but easily accessible to the non-philosopher. This book uses the tragic suicide of one of America's brightest young philosophers and writers, David Foster Wallace, to show both how truly insightful he was into the faults of our culture and the tragedy that it holds if we can't overcome it. The analysis of sports using some of DFW's own incredible insights into it capping off a philosophical analysis of Western literature from Homer to David Foster Wallace is brilliant though I think the analysis of Moby Dick could be done in more depth. This truly is a must read book for anyone on any side of the political spectrum who is overwhelmed by both the fear and the melancholy and seeming lack of hope in today's culture.
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Catching Fire Movie-Tie-in-Edition [Paperback] [Nov 10, 2014] SUZANNE COLLINS by Suzanne Collins
Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was …
Steven💉🌿🏨4All🚅🇺🇦 reviewed Individualism old and new by John Dewey (Great books in philosophy)
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5 stars
This book could have been written by Dewey today. His perspective and analysis of Americanism is every bit, perhaps even more, accurate now than it was at the beginning of the last century. Written between the world wars Dewey analyzes the changes that industrialization and technology were making possible then and the disconnect with the archaic forms of life that were being espoused. Now, a century later, these changes have only grown through the advancement of technology and our fervent clinging to, perhaps overly idealized, forms of life which are no longer applicable is all the more dangerous. Although not a work of fiction it is also a short and easy read for the non-philosopher and a book that every one, especially Americans should read. With this book Dewey actually has set up a basis for American progressives to engage entrenched conservative (in a uniquely American sense) and liberal ideologies …
This book could have been written by Dewey today. His perspective and analysis of Americanism is every bit, perhaps even more, accurate now than it was at the beginning of the last century. Written between the world wars Dewey analyzes the changes that industrialization and technology were making possible then and the disconnect with the archaic forms of life that were being espoused. Now, a century later, these changes have only grown through the advancement of technology and our fervent clinging to, perhaps overly idealized, forms of life which are no longer applicable is all the more dangerous. Although not a work of fiction it is also a short and easy read for the non-philosopher and a book that every one, especially Americans should read. With this book Dewey actually has set up a basis for American progressives to engage entrenched conservative (in a uniquely American sense) and liberal ideologies espoused by corporate America still today.
Steven💉🌿🏨4All🚅🇺🇦 rated Brave new world revisited: 4 stars
Brave new world revisited by Aldous Huxley
In 1958, Aldous Huxley wrote what might be called a sequel to his novel Brave New World, published in 1932, …
Steven💉🌿🏨4All🚅🇺🇦 rated The Hunger Games Movie Tie-In Edition: 5 stars
The Hunger Games Movie Tie-In Edition by Suzanne Collins
In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded …
Steven💉🌿🏨4All🚅🇺🇦 rated On spiritual unity: 3 stars
On spiritual unity by Robert Bird, Boris Jakim, A. S. Khomi͡akov, and 1 other (Esalen-Lindisfarne library of Russian philosophy)
Steven💉🌿🏨4All🚅🇺🇦 rated Babylon Confidential: 5 stars
Steven💉🌿🏨4All🚅🇺🇦 reviewed Jane Carver of Waar by Nathan Long
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4 stars
Free-Friday Nookbook that I would've paid money for and I'm looking forward to his next installment. Familiarity with the ERB John Carter books isn't necessary to enjoy this book.
Steven💉🌿🏨4All🚅🇺🇦 reviewed Vampire by Justin Achilli
Review of 'Vampire ' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
In terms of story and setting, this is probably the best RPG book ever written as the emphasis is on the role-playing aspect rather than the gaming aspect. This game is definitely for those more interested in fantasy role-playing rather than rule-mongering.
Steven💉🌿🏨4All🚅🇺🇦 rated Culture and Value: 5 stars
Culture and Value by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Peter Winch's translation of Wittgenstein's remarks on culture and value presents all entries chronologically, with the German text alongside the …