It's too difficult to be reading in the living room with dad going through his epic struggles like getting up from the couch, being hungry, making the food i would like and not being able to have more than a couple bites of each, and making all these bodily movements where he's directing it most of the time to a doll's face we have on the wall which he says he sees it's eyes move and stuff.
So as i listen to an audiobook, i find it way easier to be in my element, with an audiobook half of the work is done for you.
As i do this i share here what i'll feed my Kobo in 15 days
A New History of Western Philosophy (1,701 pages)
Also available in 4 separate volumes which would be the more expensive route, i like to overspend but still save some money!!
This book is no less than a guide to the whole of Western philosophy -- the ideas that have undergirded our civilization for two-and-a-half thousand years. Anthony Kenny tells the story of philosophy from ancient Greece through the Middle Ages and the Enlightenment into the modern world. He introduces us to the great thinkers and their ideas, starting with Plato, Aristotle, and the other founders of Western thought. In the second part of the book he takes us through a thousand years of medieval philosophy, and shows us the rich intellectual legacy of Christian thinkers like Augustine, Aquinas, and Ockham. Moving into the early modern period, we explore the great works of Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Leibniz, Spinoza, Hume, and Kant, which remain essential reading today. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Hegel, Mill, Nietzsche, Freud, and Wittgenstein again transformed the way we see the world. Running though the book are certain themes which have been constant concerns of philosophy since its early beginnings: the fundamental questions of what exists and how we can know about it; the nature of humanity, the mind, truth, and meaning; the place of God in the universe; how we should live and how society should be ordered. Anthony Kenny traces the development of these themes through the centuries: we see how the questions asked and answers offered by the great philosophers of the past remain vividly alive today. Anyone interested in ideas and their history will find this a fascinating and stimulating read
A Companion to Aristotle (1,229 pages)
I need a good secondary resource for Aristotle, this looks like like it'll be a good choice. I also mean to get the Sir David Ross volume, which is pricey, that i posted about a few days ago.
The Blackwell Companion to Aristotle provides in-depth studies of the main themes of Aristotle's thought, from art to zoology.
The most comprehensive single volume survey of the life and work of Aristotle
Coves the full range of Aristotle's work, from his 'theoretical' inquiries into metaphysics, physics, psychology, and biology, to the practical and productive "sciences" such as ethics, politics, rhetoric, and art
The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (790 pages)
I will also be getting the Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Politics, these are companion works and i have nice snazzy editions of both, so i figure these companions will get me a little further down the road to getting much more out of them, so i can at some time be able to describe in very plain ways what it's about, like what a normal person could do right away.
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is the first and arguably most important treatise on ethics in Western philosophy. It remains to this day a compelling reflection on the best sort of human life and continues to inspire contemporary thought and debate. This Cambridge Companion includes twenty essays by leading scholars of Aristotle and ancient philosophy that cover the major issues of this text. The essays in this volume shed light on Aristotle's rigorous and challenging thinking on questions such as: can there be a practical science of ethics? What is happiness? Are we responsible for our character? How does moral virtue relate to good thinking? Can we act against our reasoned choice? What is friendship? Is the contemplative life the highest kind of life? Covering all sections of the Nicomachean Ethics and selected topics in Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics and Protrepticus, this volume offers the reader a solid foundation in Aristotle's ethical philosophy.
Spinoza: A Life (606 pages)
Also to get the Cambridge edition of the Theological Political Treatise
Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) was one of the most important philosophers of all time; he was also arguably the most radical and controversial. This was the first complete biography of Spinoza in any language and is based on detailed archival research. More than simply recounting the story of Spinoza's life, the book takes the reader right into the heart of Jewish Amsterdam in the seventeenth century and, with Spinoza's exile from Judaism, right into the midst of the tumultuous political, social, intellectual and religious world of the young Dutch Republic. Though the book will be an invaluable resource for philosophers, historians, and scholars of Jewish thought, it has been written for any member of the general reading public with a serious interest in philosophy, Jewish history, seventeenth-century European history, and the culture of the Dutch Golden Age. Spinoza: A Life has recently been awarded the Koret Jewish Book Award.
There may be more, or i may think again on some of the above, i may for example get 7 Great Courses, for details on that, stay tuned on The Yawn Archive channel.
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