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Category: Philosophy

April 27, 2024

Review: What is History?, Edward H. Carr

Rating: 4 out of 5 I am generally not the biggest fan of a meta science book. I do well—at least sometimes—with general philosophy…

February 18, 2023

Review: Sci-Phi, David Kyle Johnson

Rating: 5 out of 5 It’s very easy to make (describing) philosophy dull, but in this work Mr Johnson makes it accessible — science…

August 3, 2022

Review: Great Minds of the Eastern Intellectual Tradition, Grant Hardy

Rating: 4 out of 5 We know the names of Western philosophy, but for many the comparable fellows of the east are unknown. This…

March 27, 2022

Review: Meister Eckhart’s Book of Secrets, Eckhart & Jon M. Sweeney

Rating: 2 out of 5 I think Master Eckhart must have been a very special person. For a Christian theologian, his ideas sound refreshingly…

February 16, 2022

Review: Imperial Nostalgia, Peter Mitchell

Rating: 2 out of 5 This book looked promising–after all trying to describe one of the foremost social problems of the time should be….

December 23, 2021

Review: On Power, Robert A. Caro

Rating: 3 out of 5 I’m finding it difficult to rate this. Overall, I was disappointed but my disappointment was with the packaging and…

September 24, 2021

Review: The Prime Ministers, Steve Richards

Rating: 3 out of 5 This book is a journalist’s look into the latest Prime Ministers. Going back about fifty years, we start with…

July 30, 2021

Review: Working, Robert A. Caro

Rating: 6 out of 5 Ever since I picked up the first volume of Mr Caro’s LBJ biography, I have been mesmerized. Every word…

March 8, 2021

Review: Tao Te Ching, Sean Michael Wilson

Rating: 4 out of 5 It’s difficult to really rate something as complex as ‘The Way’. It’s clear—having pondered what I read—that most of…

September 3, 2020

Review: The American Mind, Allen C. Guelzo

Rating: 4 out of 5 So… This was a complex work, though still more an introduction given the span of time Mr Guelzo covered….

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