Will Durant's other books ( amazon pages)

Apart from ' STory of philosophy', and ' the story of civilization' which spanns over six volumes and for which, m/s. Will And Ariel Durant spent 40 years of their autumn lives, there are other great books he wrote. One such is ' Lessons from History' for history curio in a hurry.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1572703962/ref=pd_sim_b_3/002-5236036-5282422?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance

Who do you think are the greatest people of all time ? gipsy ? Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx, who shaped the way humans think, forever without any looking back. Greatest invention ? Certainly, printing press by Johannes Gutenberg. Here's Will Durant's take on ' the greatest men and ideas of all time'. You can also read the first few pages.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743235533/ref=pd_sim_b_1/002-5236036-5282422?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance

Here's another abridged history !! Heroes of History: A Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the Dawn of the Modern Age (Hardcover) . you can read the first few pages here too !

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743226127/ref=pd_sim_b_5/002-5236036-5282422?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance

Introduction to analytical philosophy

This one too, I just scanned through, appears superb for beginners. Introduction to analytical philosophy, link given by Wiki people, when I typed ' logical positivism' into wiki search, which said it's similar to ' ana-philo' and I pressed that hyper link and at the end of that, this is the external link provided by wiki. Read it in leisure.

http://www.galilean-library.org/int17.html

philosophy pages dot com

I found quite a few useful philosophical sites. One is radical academy. Another one is Internet Encyclo of Philo. Today, while I was searching for ' Logical Positivism' in Wiki, I found this philosophy pages, whichi is quite comprehensive.

http://www.philosophypages.com/

in the same site, you will find a guide to Locke's ' Essay on Human understanding'. Store all this great stuff in a floppy and read at home. Your home computer is grossly under utilized.

http://www.philosophypages.com/locke/g00.htm

and here, they give some kind of direction and guidance to students, philosophy students, on do s and don't s in philosophical study and studying philosophy online ! Don't miss this one first !!

http://www.philosophypages.com/sy.htm

Arthus Schopenhauer - Ext.Links from Wiki

Schopenhauer, acc.to Will Durant, is one of the most underrated philosophers, but whose philosophy of determinism inspired the works of the likes of Freud !

When you try to read philosophy on internet, you are getting lost in the maze ! Do one thing. Start with one website or one philosopher at a time and try to read them when ever you have leisure or store them onto a floppy disk and read at home. Here are Schopenhauer links. Start with wikipedia, where you found all the external links of this great philosopher.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer

Here's the link from friesien dot org. One page appreciation of the great philosopher :

http://www.friesian.com/arthur.htm

Here's the standsford education page on him. YOu will also find other sources and links at the bottom :

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/schopenhauer/

Here's a great, in-depth essay from a strange web site, titled ' Schopenhauer and Freud'.

http://http-server.carleton.ca/~abrook/SCHOPENY.htm

Here's an aesthetic appreciation of Schopenhauer, with links to other great german philosophers :

http://www.centrebouddhisteparis.org/En_Anglais/Sangharakshita_en_anglais/Aesthetic_appreciation/aesthetic_appreciation.html

read them, one at a time, in leisure, when ever it happens.

Byron Katie Quotes

This lady too claims that she underwent spritual experience similar to Mr.Eckhart Tolle, that is, bouts of depression and self destruction preceding spriritual awakening. HEre' the site and FAQ.

http://www.thework.com/CommonQuestions.asp

autodidacticism : the science of self learning

I was reading about ' Alan Watts', the Zen Guru, an expatriate Britt, the flower child and visited Wikipedia.
Where did you learn about Alan Watts ? I opened 'eckhart tolle quotes' and clicked on satsang and found a quote by a learned man . Clicked on his name. Don't remember his name. He wrote a book on advaitha.
He thanked Alan Watts the zen guru . Visited amazon. Lot of books. visited wiki and typed his name. He was described as ' autodidactic', the self learned. clicked on the hyper link. Here is the wiki link on auto didacticism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autodidact

Wiki also cited 2 web sites dedicacted to autodidactism. Here they are : the first one, with this foreword :

Autodidactic Press is dedicated to two propositions:

That lifelong learning is fundamental to living a full and interesting life.

That the learning necessary to gain competence in a job or career is far, far more important than how or where it is acquired.

You will find lots of material on this site in support of these objectives.

http://www.autodidactic.com/

Second website dedicated to autodidacticism, has the following foreword on its home page :

Are you an autodidact, a self-educated person?
Did you learn most of what matters to you on your own, even if you went to college?
Are you a disgruntled student, teacher, or professor, dissatisfied with the knowledge industry and the bureaucratization of intellect?
Are you concerned about the role of the intellect not just as a form of specialized professionalism but as equipment for living?
Are you interested in the intellectual life of society as a whole, in its informal and extra-institutional aspects as much as in its formal institutions?
Do you strive to make yourself and people around you more conscious and critical thinkers?
How do you locate yourself in the universe of knowledge?
If any of these questions strike a chord in you, you too may wish to benefit from the Autodidact Project.
"Nature has no outline but imagination has."— William Blake

Here is the site :

http://www.autodidactproject.org/

Alan Watts : the Zen guru

Learnt someone new. Alan Watts is a famous Zen guru, expatriate Britt, who wrote 25 books, called as ' flawed guru' in one of the amazon editorials. Here's his wiki link :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Watts

and here is the amazon link of his books. You can name them to Mr.Chakradhar.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1893361322/qid=1124363856/sr=1-5/ref=sr_1_5/104-1677411-5615919?v=glance&s=books

internet encyclopedia of philosophy

This is the neat internet encyclopedia of philosophy. Of philosophies, branches, subjects, of philosophers, neatly arraged in alphabetical order.

" A " starts with ' A Priori" and ' A posteriori' ( what a firm footing to start with ! ) and Ends with
"Z" on " Zizek, Slavoj".
Read it when ever you have time, to have strong philosophic fundas. Here's the link :

http://iep.utm.edu

great one comrade. As good as radical academy.