Just after posting I noticed the previous couple of posts mention Shackleton. Pure coincidence.
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Not sure if that's the same book I read a few years ago. If it's very poorly written, then it's the same one.
Tom Crean is really interesting, I'd be interested to know if it is any good.Great. Thanks.
Basically finished with Peter Singer's "Pracitical Ethics". Anyone philosophically minded with some thoughts about the book? I found it interesting, and in some parts persuasive. His points about euthanasia are very intriguing.
I had to read that for my degree, and this is not necessarily a comment on the book but I ended up using it as a backstop for my air rifle.
Two Years Before The Mast - I'm a sucker for any nautical novels. The age of sail captivated me since I was a wee lad watching the tallships sail in and out of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
Ordered the first and last recommendations you listed - I was always fascinated with the expeditions seeking a route through the NW Passage, and recently started looking into books on the Ross Expedition and general Antarctic expeditions. Appreciate the suggestions!
I do so appreciate that the board tolerates comments about serious books. Such venues are hard to come by. Anyway while on Amazon, purportedly to buy a book about how tweaking my brain's programming to enhance health, I instead bought the entirely more mesmerizing titles:
John Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, whose trail I picked up doing battle with George Berkeley's A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Understanding.
Pema Chodron: Becoming Bodhisattvas. I've studied Shantideva's foundational work, A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life but must conclude that it is cryptic and that reading others is the best way in.
Khedrup Je: Freedom through Correct Knowing: Khedrup Je's Interpretation of Dharmakirti's "Seven Treatises on Valid Cognition," forward by the Dalai Lama.
Je Tsongkhapa, an influential Tibetan Buddhist monk, philosopher and tantric yogi whose activities led to the formation of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. Illuminating the Intent: An Exposition of Chandrakirti's Entering the Middle Way.
Preliminary lesson: Stay away from Amazon
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John Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, whose trail I picked up doing battle with George Berkeley's A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Understanding.
Pema Chodron: Becoming Bodhisattvas. I've studied Shantideva's foundational work, A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life but must conclude that it is cryptic and that reading others is the best way in.
Khedrup Je: Freedom through Correct Knowing: Khedrup Je's Interpretation of Dharmakirti's "Seven Treatises on Valid Cognition," forward by the Dalai Lama.
Je Tsongkhapa, an influential Tibetan Buddhist monk, philosopher and tantric yogi whose activities led to the formation of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. Illuminating the Intent: An Exposition of Chandrakirti's Entering the Middle Way.
Preliminary lesson: Stay away from Amazon
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One can’t mention Locke and Berkeley, IMHO, without mentioning David Hume. I‘ve always had a special fondness for Hume, a fellow British Empiricist of Locke and Berkeley. The writings of Hume (whom Kant reflected, woke him from his dogmatic slumber), were my first glimpses of philosophy in college and to no small degree, prompted me to become a philosophy major.I do so appreciate that the board tolerates comments about serious books. Such venues are hard to come by. Anyway while on Amazon, purportedly to buy a book about how tweaking my brain's programming to enhance health, I instead bought the entirely more mesmerizing titles:
John Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, whose trail I picked up doing battle with George Berkeley's A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Understanding.
Pema Chodron: Becoming Bodhisattvas. I've studied Shantideva's foundational work, A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life but must conclude that it is cryptic and that reading others is the best way in.
Khedrup Je: Freedom through Correct Knowing: Khedrup Je's Interpretation of Dharmakirti's "Seven Treatises on Valid Cognition," forward by the Dalai Lama.
Tsongkapa, an influential Tibetan Buddhist monk, philosopher and tantric yogi whose activities led to the formation of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. Illuminating the Intent: An Exposition of Chandrakirti's Entering the Middle Way.
Preliminary lesson: Stay away from Amazon
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My neglect of Hume has not been intentional but depends on whom I am reading and their recommendations for whose they've read. And which way my personal winds are blowing. All in good time
I am over half way. I think it's a good book. I have learnt a lot.
First half mostly covers Scott's expedition. The Shackleton part is now starting.
These were really tough men, particularly Tom Crean. I can't imagine the present generation with blue hair being of the same calibre.
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