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Friday, March 11, 2005
Phriday Phun With Philosophy: Squashed Philosophers -- To maintain your level of personal productivity, it helps to find faster ways of doing things, like zapping through not only commercials with your Tivo or DVR, but also through the interminable lab prep scenes in the CSI series. (What's the plural of "series"?)
To help you do this with heavier thinking, here's a set of condensed Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Descartes, Hume, Marx, Freud, Copernicus, Hobbes, Sartre, Ayer, Sade, Wittgenstein, Einstein, and more.
"The books which defined the way The West thinks now, condensed and abridged to keep the substance, the style and the quotes, but ditching all that irritating verbiage"
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