tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1694400362120888303.post5659555102299659594..comments2024-02-22T19:52:27.939+00:00Comments on The bad old days will end: With philosophers like these...........rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08557920166206674182noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1694400362120888303.post-68035197046835835552012-07-21T17:02:23.631+01:002012-07-21T17:02:23.631+01:00I don't rate this pub philosophy much nor the ...I don't rate this pub philosophy much nor the spate of books about philosophy and eating, philosophy and drinking and so on. Just easy stuff and mindless fashion. Pharoah once asked Euclid for an easy introduction to philosophy and Euclid replied that there was no royal road. Wittgenstein told would be philosophers to 'go the bloody hard way'. The OU can point you in the right direction and they have put together some very good readers and edited editions. But I would start with Plato, his Symposium is about boozing, love, sex and virtue. His Republic covers every political standpoint ever considered.Dr Llareggubhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16006006364519010038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1694400362120888303.post-32240703870314444652012-07-20T22:11:59.883+01:002012-07-20T22:11:59.883+01:00We have arrived. The Society of the Spectacle is t...We have arrived. The Society of the Spectacle is truly upon us. However I'm repeating a statement I wrote in 1968 and the influences then were Fanny Craddock and Johnny.Gitanenoreply@blogger.com