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David McK (3623 KP) rated The Philosophy Book in Books

Jan 30, 2019

With over 2000 years of history, no book could seek to cover each and every aspect of philosophical thought.

What this does, instead, is to give a broad overview of the main works of the main thinkers (SOcrates, Plato, Descartes, Karl Marx, etc) of any particular era, with the book itself split into 6 main sections, as follows:

1) The Ancient World (700 BCE - 250 CE)
2) The Medieval World (250 - 1500)
3) Renaissance and the Age of Reason (1500 - 1750)
4) The Age of Revolution (1750 - 1900)
5) The Modern World (1900 -1950)
6) Contemporary Philosophy (1950 - present)

Nicely illustrated throughout, and with a little bit of history on the thinker themselves, this is a good intro for anybody interested in the subject. (Speaking personally, the closer the philosophy got to contemporary years, the less interesting I found it - I was more interested in the likes of Plato, Socrates and Descartes, for instance, than in Jacques Derrida).

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Sara Cox (1845 KP) rated Alia Tero: The Many Lives of Darren Datita in Books

Feb 23, 2020

The concept of this books was interesting. It’s the future. There are different “zones” people get moved to each rotation. At each zone they get different roles. The purpose I suppose is so people aren’t settled and therefore cannot plan or rebel the system. Reproduction is pretty regimented and planned. Throughout most of this book I thought we were following the main character through his different rotations and the various roles this has given him, bin man, orderly, dad. Towards the end he starts a revolution so he doesn’t have to rotate anymore and can be with the woman he loves. How he reaches this point it fairly interesting, but I feel like there could have been more of a build up to it. It seemed like a thing a lot of people were thinking about and his luck enabled him to put a plan in place. I don’t know, it felt like something was missing from the narrative.