Maxzor a commenté An enquiry concerning human understanding par David Hume
'Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.'
…My take away : scepticism, cause - habit - effect, nice prose.
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Maxzor a commenté Justine et autres romans par Marquis de Sade
Ses textes ont longtemps été considérés comme des documents à réserver aux médecins, aux juristes …
I read only Justine.
The main question is if it is worth following virtue in one's life, given that providence can favour a sinful conduct better.
I found that the philosophical pages and the repetitive systems were like rather fun labyrinths were the reader had to learn how to refute the sophisms exposed.
But it was quite tedious. It seems to me on one hand that Choderlos de Laclos did better at painting libertinism, and on the other hand that Voltaire's Candide was more skillful at painting humans as (I oppose the thesis !) fundamentally evil.
I read only Justine.
The main question is if it is worth following virtue in one's life, given that providence can favour a sinful conduct better.
I found that the philosophical pages and the repetitive systems were like rather fun labyrinths were the reader had to learn how to refute the sophisms exposed.
But it was quite tedious. It seems to me on one hand that Choderlos de Laclos did better at painting libertinism, and on the other hand that Voltaire's Candide was more skillful at painting humans as (I oppose the thesis !) fundamentally evil.
Maxzor a commenté The Complete Works of William Shakespeare par William Shakespeare
Contains 44 works:
PLAYS (37) All's well that ends well Antony and Cleopatra As …
Read Romeo and Juliet. Masterful.
Read Romeo and Juliet. Masterful.
Maxzor a commenté Pensées pour moi-même par Marc Aurèle
Traduction (Grec ancien) : Mario Meunier « On sent en soi-même un plaisir secret lorsqu’on …
Repetitions but nice stoicism Epictete's book is very nice aswell
Repetitions but nice stoicism Epictete's book is very nice aswell
Maxzor a commenté La Métamorphose par Franz Kafka
Première parution en 1938 Édition et trad. de l'allemand (Autriche) par Claude David. Préface de …
Acerbic yet well-crafted
Maxzor a commenté Nature et préjugés par Marc-André Selosse
Maxzor a terminé la lecture de L'histoire de Gilgamesh par Hassan Massoudy
Par Pierre Grimal
Les aventures de Gilgamesh et son ami Enkidu.
Le calligraphe …
One of the oldest tales known.
Maxzor a terminé la lecture de Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes par Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Librio Philosophie, #340)
Partant de l'état de nature, Rousseau détaille l'enchaînement des circonstances qui conduisit le genre humain …
What expressive power ! A little monument.
#inequality #philosophy #anthropology #BookStodon #MastoLivre #FediBook #FediLivre
What expressive power ! A little monument.
#inequality #philosophy #anthropology #BookStodon #MastoLivre #FediBook #FediLivre
Maxzor a commenté Le porche du mystère de la deuxième vertu par Charles Péguy
Three virtues : faith, charity, and most importantly hope.
A long poem in prose, baffling but engaging, with a stark prosody.
Maxzor a commenté Le nouvel ordre écologique par Luc Ferry
Le Nouvel Ordre écologique, sous-titré L'arbre, l'animal et l'homme, est un essai de Luc Ferry, …
Maxzor a commenté Ce que j'ai vu à Auschwitz par Alter Fajnzylberg
LE TÉMOIGNAGE INÉDIT D’UN HOMME
PLONGÉ AU CŒUR DE L’HORREUR
À AUSCHWITZ ET …
A precious testimony
Maxzor a commenté La reine des lectrices par Alan Bennett
The Uncommon Reader is a novella by Alan Bennett. After appearing first in the London …
Funny, witty, easy-going, pleasant
Maxzor a commenté Voix d'extinction par Sophie Hénaff
Deux mille trente et un. La plupart des grandes espèces animales sont en voie d'extinction. …
Delicate and funny #ecology
Maxzor a terminé la lecture de Si Einstein avait su par Alain Aspect
Alain Aspect a voulu écrire ce livre pour nous faire partager sa fascination pour le …
There is a clear didactic effort and the journey is enjoyable, but in my opinion it did not deliver remarquably in making me understand the nature of quantum entanglement, the ingeniosity in Bell's inequalities, nor the consequences of their violation for the advancement of non-locality.
There is a clear didactic effort and the journey is enjoyable, but in my opinion it did not deliver remarquably in making me understand the nature of quantum entanglement, the ingeniosity in Bell's inequalities, nor the consequences of their violation for the advancement of non-locality.
Maxzor a commenté S'armer de rhétorique par David Jarousseau (Champion Essais, #63)
Longtemps ignorée du grand public, la rhétorique captive chaque jour de nouveaux adeptes. Rendue accessible …
Rhetoric should supplement dialectics in the general curriculum.