My Professional Philosophical Exposure

     Now it's not like I'm a major philosophical maniac, but I pride myself on having covered quite a bit of ground.  Though still far from being the mental professional, I've read many a book and taken many a class having much to do with various studies in and on philosophy, the humanities, and the history of Western Culture in general.  I list these below more for my own sake (to help me remember) than for any other reason.  However, if you're looking for a good read, I also suggest checking these books out at your local library.

Roman and Islamic culture and duty

The Bible - Old Testament (which translation), Mark and Paul, Manicheeism, Mesopotamian culture

St. Augustine - Confessions

Boethius - The Consolation of Philosophy

Kant - Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals

Ywain, Knight of the Lion

El Cid

Dante - Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso

Machiavelli - The Prince

Thomas More - Utopia

Shakespeare - The Tempest

Howard Bloom - The Lucifer Principle

Marx and Engels - Manifesto of the Communist Party

Darwin - Origin of Species

Sigmund Freud - Civilization and Its Discontents

Toni Morrison - Beloved

Voltaire - Candide

Elie Wiesel - Night

Octavio Paz - Labyrinth of Solitude

John Locke - Two Treatises of Government

James Madison - Father of the Constitution

Thomas Kuhn - On the Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Steven Shapin - Scientific Revolutions

    These are just some of the books which I have read (if you could call it reading), and mostly because I was forced to for some of the various classes which I took.  If you would like to see some of the types of classes which I have taken, then feel free to visit my transcript page, where you can also see some of my pitiful grades (please, don't respect me any less).  But my real passion for books lays in the sci-fi/ fantasy genre.  Fiction is an aphrodisiac...

This page was last updated on July 5, 2005