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Vigotski
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Posted 06/08/09 - 08:00 PM:	#31
Ciceronianus, The optimistic philosophy are extremely unpopular here on Continent. Sartre aren't Highbrow I suppose. He is just a writer. Marcuse. I'm not fond of him too. Derrida is the best. He isn't absurdist, nor pessimist like E. Cioran. Derrida shows the structure of thinking. Weakness of thinking. Plato, Kant, Decartes and Derrida are the topmost of philosophy technology. But Derrida is the best. ''1984'' is interesting novel about totalitarism. I was impressed too.

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Posted 06/09/09 - 06:42 AM:	#32
Thanks for the response.
"Let us not pretend to doubt in philosophy what we do not doubt in our hearts."--C.S. Peirce "There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it."--Marcus Tullius Cicero "Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated by philosophers, for dealing with the problems of men."--John Dewey

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Posted 06/09/09 - 10:44 AM:	#33
I recently bought the fairy tales of Oscar Wilde, which I read to my daughter at night, We both end up crying, she because she doesn't want to go to sleep and me because the stories are so profoundly sad. Brave new world is frightening, but i didn't find it emotional. Ah! Notes from the undergrown by Dostovyesky (probably wrongly spelt)That was sad. Poor bastard!

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Posted 06/11/09 - 02:59 PM:

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Sadly, I can't recall ever crying from a book. I will get teary-eyed at movies occasionally, but I can't recall which ones except the Return of the King. I think I was upset that the movies were over.

One read that always gives me an emotional response is Plato's Apology. How could they do that to Socrates? How!!!

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Posted 06/12/09 - 03:31 PM:	#35
I love the way everyone gradually seems to be exaggerating about their experiences, until somebody mentioned crying when they THINK about reading philosophers. It seems to be a competition of 'I'm more sensitive than you!' Anyway, I have deffinetly cried over some books, finding it hard to remember which though! Maybe Frankenstein... I'm sure there are others.

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Posted 06/12/09 - 10:14 PM:	#36
I remember there was a scene in "The Kite Runner", of the two boys and a pomegranate tree, that made me wail suddenly. I was fine the paragraph before and then it hit me.

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Posted 08/26/09 - 10:16 AM:	#37
Zorba the Greek, what a book. Also the end of the first Noughts and Crosses book, and the Princes tales in the last Potter book, poor old snape. Also Angnes death in Immortality by Kundera. Also most of Love in the time of cholera, but what a beautiful ending.

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