What are you currently reading?

[Jo498]

actually, "existence" has been a technical term in philosophy already in the middle ages. But of course not mainly in the sense of the 20th century "existentialists", rather for subtle distinctions in metaphysics and theology.
Commonly, Kierkegaard is referred to as the first "existentialist" in the later sense, so I am not sure what Ortega y Gasset wants to claim here...

[Karl Henning]

A public marketplace for hackers—what could possibly go wrong?

[North Star]

Books aren't cheap though. You better philosophy yourself, without having to read any book.

Books aren't cheap? Sure, some books that are directed to a limited portion of the academia can be very expensive indeed, but you can get a whole lot of philosophy on paper at the price of a decent meal.

[Karl Henning]

And there may be free e-book editions of the classics.

[Henk]

Books aren't cheap? Sure, some books that are directed to a limited portion of the academia can be very expensive indeed, but you can get a whole lot of philosophy on paper at the price of a decent meal.

Could be, but are those the books you want to read. To select the books you want to read, you are bound to the prices of them.

Moreover, I don't always want to print stuff, the published book is a far nicer thing to have.

[North Star]

And there may be free e-book editions of the classics.

And just plain old PDFs of pretty much every canonized classic.

Could be, but are those the books you want to read. To select the books you want to read, you are bound to the prices of them.

Oxford World's Classics (OUP), Penguin & al. have very reasonably priced editions of pretty much everything I want to read in English. Plenty of RW Emerson on Penguin, Dover, Everyman's Library, for example.

[Karl Henning]

Oxford World's Classics (OUP), Penguin & al. have very reasonably priced editions of pretty much everything I want to read in English. Plenty of RW Emerson on Penguin, Dover, Everyman's Library, for example.

Yes, indeed.  And Emerson himself is IMO much more interesting and engaging than . . . commentary about Emerson.

[Henk]

Yes, indeed.  And Emerson himself is IMO much more interesting and engaging than . . . commentary about Emerson.

That book by Emerson I read also contain the orginal essays.

[Karl Henning]

That book by Emerson I read also contain the orginal essays.

Seems, then, that the book is expensive, because one pays for the copyrighted chit-chat.

[kishnevi]

And just plain old PDFs of pretty much every canonized classic.
Oxford World's Classics (OUP), Penguin & al. have very reasonably priced editions of pretty much everything I want to read in English. Plenty of RW Emerson on Penguin, Dover, Everyman's Library, for example.

RWE online
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/search?author=Ralph+Waldo+Emerson&amode=words

[Karl Henning]

RWE online
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/search?author=Ralph+Waldo+Emerson&amode=words

You are the man, Jeffrey.

[kishnevi]

You are the man, Jeffrey.

The Online Books Page is perhaps the first website I ever bookmarked when first I Interneted.

[Henk]

Seems, then, that the book is expensive, because one pays for the copyrighted chit-chat.

The essays are as well rewritten in more simpler form, so I can actually understand them..

Nice to have the book, as I said, printing them you don't have a nice book in your hands.

[Henk]

RWE online
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/search?author=Ralph+Waldo+Emerson&amode=words

Thanks!

[Henk]

To make my point clear, I would rather buy this book...



...then read the texts in plain format on the internet or print all that stuff. I wonder how much people on earth do that??

Maybe indeed, if you don't have any money. But then yet, one probably ends up watching tv or something..

[Henk]

This one is probably better.

[Wakefield]

Other highly recommendable websites are:

Internet Archive: https://archive.org

World Public Library: http://worldlibrary.org/Home

The last one requires a small incorporation fee.

[Karl Henning]

Cosby's legal situation seems to be getting exponentially worse, as the number of women claiming he sexually abused them now could fill a school bus. The number of accusers is now reportedly more than 40 women, according to various media accounts.

[Drasko]

Some Icelandic writing in Belgrade's Saharan heat.

This turned out to be quite decent. I can easily recommend it to fans of Wallander type detective novels.

[Henk]

Dutch book. Philosopical work which shows the meaning of three Godesses and translate it to our current world. Gives rise to imagination and reflection, making this more complex than easier, which is good but also confusing. I haven't sort out yet what's its practical value. IJsseling said that some polytheism make life more imaginative and interesting. He holds it as a kind of valid thinking. I'm curious.. so I read further.