Philosophy – Page 2 – Meditations

August 29, 2020

Review: The American West, Patrick N. Allitt

Rating: 4 out of 5 This was a really interesting read for me: trying to understand how the United States came to be and…

December 30, 2019

Review: Cold Mountain, Sean Michael Wilson & Hanshan

Rating: 4 out of 5 I am not sure I read this as I should have. Mine was a glancing look that often strayed,…

July 26, 2019

Review: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Haruki Murakami

Rating: 5 out of 5 To begin with, I think there is one very clear mistake people can do with reading this: they can…

July 25, 2019

Review: Secrets of the Ninja, Sean Michael Wilson

Rating: 4 out of 5 I liked it less than the other Mr Wilson graphic novels I’ve read. This is mostly as this book…

January 23, 2014

‘The Demon’s Sermon on the Martial Arts’, S.M. Wilson

Sean Michael Wilson is a person I have already commented on twice recently, in the posts on The Book of Five Rings and Hagakure….

January 15, 2014

‘Hagakure: The Code of the Samurai’, S.M. Wilson

In addition to the ‘The Book of Five Rings’ I described yesterday, Sean Michael Wilson has applied the same treatment to two other philosophical…

January 14, 2014

‘The Book of Five Rings’, S.M. Wilson

‘The Book of Five Rings’ is a well-known work by the Japanese swordsman, Miyamoto Musashi. Sean Michael Wilson took this work of art and…

December 7, 2012

‘The Analects’, Confucius [Kong Fuzi]

For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We ought…

November 28, 2012

‘Beyond Good and Evil’, F. Nietzche

We really ought to free ourselves from the misleading significance of words! I was recently compelled into reading this work by Friedrich Nietzche. My…

July 14, 2011

‘Naval Warfare’, J. Thursfield

I thought of writing about dreams, about illusions, of people, possibly about anger/disappointment. Those are, briefly, what I’ve thought about in the last few…