Read a review of The Mysterious Island:
Monday, September 24, 2012
Monday, September 17, 2012
Utilitarianism
John Stuart Mill's seminal work, Utilitarianism, helped to define the movement. Read, also, Jeremy Bentham's works on the subject.
Monday, September 10, 2012
Self-Reliance
Self-Reliance, by Ralph Waldo Emerson, contains the most thorough statement of one of Emerson's recurrent themes, the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency, and follow his or her own instincts and ideas. It is the source of one of Emerson's most famous quotations, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" (often misquoted by omission of the word "foolish").
Monday, September 3, 2012
Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes is the quintessential detective. Have you read all 4 novels and 56 short stories?
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