As for books, I am NOW (or still!) READING:
• The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution (2007) by Kevin R. C. Gutzman, J.D., Ph.D.
• The Technological Society ([1954] 1967) by Jacques Ellul
• Self-Abandonment to Divine Providence by Fr. Jean-Pierre de Caussade
• What Color Is Your Parachute? 2012 by Richard N. Bolles
• A Husband After God's Own Heart by Jim George
• God Is a Bullet by Boston Teran
• The Blue Hour by T. Jefferson Parker
• Under the Dome by Stephen King
• Duma Key by Stephen King
• The Dead Zone by Stephen King
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
• The Terror by Dan Simmons
• The Talisman by Stephen King & Peter Straub
• Point Omega by Don DeLillo
• Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
• The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon
• The Nature of the Mind by Peter Carruthers
• Personal Identity by Harold Noonan
• Theory and Truth by Lawrence Sklar
• Philosophical Logic by John P. Burgess
• Philosophy of Logic by W.V.O. Quine
• From a Logical Point of View by W.V.O. Quine
• Everywhere and Everywhen by Nick Huggett
• Thinking about Physics by Roger G. Newton
• Real Essentialism by David Oderberg
• Why Marx Was Right (2011) by Terry Eagleton
• Logic (1985) by Juan Jose Sanguineti
• Nominalism and Realism – Volume 1 of Universals and Scientific Realism (1980) by D. M. Armstrong
• A Theory of Universals – Volume 2 of Universals and Scientific Realism (1980) by D. M. Armstrong
• Couplehood by Paul Reiser
• What Matters? Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth by Wendell Berry
• The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism by Robert P. Murphy, Ph.D.
• Toward a Truly Free Market: A Distributist Perspective on the Role of Government, Taxes, Health Care, Deficits, and More (2010) by John M. Médaille
• Leibniz's Mill: A Challenge to Materialism (2011) by Charles Landesman
• The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism by Kevin D. Williamson
• In Defence of Global Capitalism (2001) by Johan Norberg
• The "Poisoned Spring" of Economic Libertarianism –– Menger, Mises, Hayek, Rothbard: A Critique from Catholic Social Teaching of the 'Austrian School' of Economics (2011) by Angus Sibley
• Micro (2012) by Michael Crichton w/ Richard Preston
• The Case for Working with Your Hands, Or Why Office Work Is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good (2010) by Stephen Crawford
• The Conscience of a Liberal (2009) by Paul Krugman
• Free Lunch: Easily Digestible Economics, Served on a Plate (2003) by David Smith
• The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else (2000) by Hernando de Soto
• Why Most Things Fail: Evolution, Extinction & Economics (2005) by Paul Ormerod
• What's Wrong with the World (1910) by G.K. Chesterton
• The Servile State (1912) by Hilaire Belloc
• The Sun of Justice: An Essay on the Social Teaching of the Catholic Church (1938) by Harold Robbins
• Next (2006) by Michael Crichton
• What Color Is Your Parachute? 2012 by Richard N. Bolles
• A Husband After God's Own Heart by Jim George
• Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II by George Weigel
• Summa contra gentiles by St Thomas d'Aquino [AVAILABLE ONLINE]
• On Cleaving to God (De adhaerendo Deo) by Albertus Magnus [AVAILABLE ONLINE]
• Covenantal Theology: The Eucharistic Order of History by Fr. Donald Keefe, SJ
• Salz der Erde (Ein Gespräch mit Peter Seewald) von Joseph Kardinal Ratzinger und Peter Seewald
• The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
…AND SHELVING, IN MEMORIAM:
• The Road of Science and the Ways to God by Stanley L. Jaki
• Very Special Relativity by Sander Bais
• Behind the Mirror: A Search for a Natural History of Human Knowledge by Konrad Lorenz (tr. Ronald Taylor)
• Thought and World - The Hidden Necessities by James Ross
• Why Think? Evolution and the Rational Mind by Ronald de Sousa
• Theology in the Age of Scientific Reasoning by Nancey Murphy
• Peripatetikos #6
• A Gilson Reader: Selections from the Writings of Etienne Gilson (ed., with intro.) by Anton C. Pegis
• 放屁！名利雙收的捷徑 Harry G. Frankfurt/著 (譯者：南方朔)
• Philosophical Theology (1969) by James F. Ross
• A Maritain Reader: Selected Writings of Jacques Maritain (ed., w/ intro.) by Donald and Idella Gallagher
• Faith and Freedom: An Interfaith Perspective by David Burrell, C.S.C.
• Ihn will ich suchen, den meine Seele liebt: Gebete und Betrachtungen von Johannes vom Kreuz
• The Return of History and the End of Dreams by Robert Kagan
• Fewer: How the New Demography of Depopulation Will Shape Our Future by Ben J. Wattenberg
• Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology by Mary Douglas
• The Empty Cradle: How Falling Birthrates Threaten World Prosperity and What to Do About It by Phillip Longman
• The Pigeon by Patrick Süskind
• The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China by Mark Elvin
• God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations for Modern Science by James Hannam
• The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto by Pico Iyer
• A Crisis of Saints: The Call to Heroic Faith in an Unheroic World by Fr. George Rutler
• The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom
• Religion in the Making by A. N. Whitehead
• Wittgenstein: Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology, and Religious Belief (ed.) by Cyril Barrett
• Introducing Radical Orthodoxy: Mapping a Post-Secular Theology by James K. A. Smith
• The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom by Simon Winchester
• Walking the Tightrope of Reason: The Precarious Life of a Rational Animal by Robert Fogelin
• The Curious History of Relativity: How Einstein's Theory of Gravity Was Lost and Found Again by Jean Eisenstaedt
• Hitler's Private Library: The Books That Shaped Him by Timothy W. Ryback
• Wittgenstein Reads Weininger (ed.) by David G. Stern & Béla Szabados
• Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder by Arnold Schwarzenegger with Douglas Hall Kent
• Natural Right and History by Leo Strauss
• Wittgenstein and Modern Philosophy by Justus Hartnack
• Wittgenstein Reads Freud: The Myth of the Unconscious by Jacques Bouveresse
• Essays on Wittgenstein's Tractatus (ed.) by Irving M. Copi & Robert W. Beard
• Hegel's Dialectic and Its Criticism by Michael Rosen
• The Rediscovery of the Mind by John Searle
• The Danger of Words and Writings on Wittgenstein by Maurice O'Connor Drury, David Berman (ed.), Michael Fitzgerald (ed.), John Hayes (ed.)
• From Religion to Philosophy: A Study in the Origins of Western Speculation by Francis M. Cornford
• How to Solve the Mind-Body Problem by Nicholas Humphrey
• The Evolving Brain: The Mind and the Neural Control of Behavior by C. H. Vanderwolf
• Neuroscience and Philosophy: Brain, Mind and Language by Maxwell Bennett, Daniel Dennett, Peter Hacker, John Searle
• Thomas Aquinas: Selected Philosophical Writings (ed.) by Timothy McDermott
• Cultural Movements and Collective History: Christopher Columbus and the Rewriting of the National Origin Myth by Timothy Kubal
• A Very Private Gentleman by Martin Booth
• The Reality of Time and the Existence of God: The Project of Proving God's Existence (1989) David Braine
• Contemporary Philosophy: Studies of Logical Positivism and Existentialism by Frederick Copleston
• Powers: A Study in Metaphysics (2001) by George Molnar
• Necessity, Cause and Blame: Perspectives on Aristotle's Theory (1980) by Richard Sorabji
• Labyrinth: A Search for the Hidden Meaning of Science (2001) by Peter Pesic
• "Gavagai!" Or the Future History of the Animal Language Controversy (1986) by David Premack
• Darwin Among the Machines (1997) by George Dyson
• The Grand Design (2010) by Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow
• Are Quanta Real? A Galilean Dialogue (1973) by Josef M. Jauch
• Galileo in Rome: The Rise and Fall of a Troublesome Genius (2004) by William R. Shea & Mariano Artigas
• Einstein 1905: The Standard of Greatness (2005) by John S. Rigden
• Scientist and Catholic: Pierre Duhem (1990) by Stanley L. Jaki
• What Distinguishes Human Understanding? (2002) by John Deely
• The Logical Leap: Induction in Physics (2010) by David Harriman, Leonard Peikoff (Introduction)
• A Contemporary Introduction to Free Will (2005) by Robert Kane
• Kant (Blackwell Great Minds) (2005) by Allen W. Wood
• The Soul of the Person: A Contemporary Philosophical Psychology (2006) by Adrian Reimers
• The Logic Manual (2010) by Volker Holbach (incl. associated webpage!)
• Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories (1958) by Truman Capote
• Pure Drivel (1999) by Steve Martin
• Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar (1989) by Edwin G. Pulleyblank
• The Concept of Mind (1947) by Gilbert Ryle
• The Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of a Universe (2007) by Michael Frayn
• Invariances: The Structure of the Objective World (2001) by Robert Nozick
• Cosmos in Transition: Studies in the History of Cosmology (1990) by Stanley L. Jaki
• War of the Worlds: The Assault on Reality (1996) by Mark Slouka
• How Real is Real? Confusion, Disinformation, Communication (1976) by Paul Watzlawick
• The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods (1920/1934) by A. G. Sertillanges, O.P.
• Aquinas: A Beginner's Guide (2009) by Edward Feser
• De Rationibus Fidei (ca. 1264) by St. Thomas Aquinas
• Schopenhauer (1967) by Patrick Gardiner
• On Cleaving to God (De adhaerendo Deo) by Albertus Magnus [AVAILABLE ONLINE]
• Covenantal Theology: The Eucharistic Order of History by Fr. Donald Keefe, SJ
• Salz der Erde (Ein Gespräch mit Peter Seewald) von Joseph Kardinal Ratzinger und Peter Seewald
• The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
…AND SHELVING, IN MEMORIAM:
• The Road of Science and the Ways to God by Stanley L. Jaki
• Very Special Relativity by Sander Bais
• Behind the Mirror: A Search for a Natural History of Human Knowledge by Konrad Lorenz (tr. Ronald Taylor)
• Thought and World - The Hidden Necessities by James Ross
• Why Think? Evolution and the Rational Mind by Ronald de Sousa
• Theology in the Age of Scientific Reasoning by Nancey Murphy
• Peripatetikos #6
• A Gilson Reader: Selections from the Writings of Etienne Gilson (ed., with intro.) by Anton C. Pegis
• 放屁！名利雙收的捷徑 Harry G. Frankfurt/著 (譯者：南方朔)
• Philosophical Theology (1969) by James F. Ross
• A Maritain Reader: Selected Writings of Jacques Maritain (ed., w/ intro.) by Donald and Idella Gallagher
• Faith and Freedom: An Interfaith Perspective by David Burrell, C.S.C.
• Ihn will ich suchen, den meine Seele liebt: Gebete und Betrachtungen von Johannes vom Kreuz
• The Return of History and the End of Dreams by Robert Kagan
• Fewer: How the New Demography of Depopulation Will Shape Our Future by Ben J. Wattenberg
• Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology by Mary Douglas
• The Empty Cradle: How Falling Birthrates Threaten World Prosperity and What to Do About It by Phillip Longman
• The Pigeon by Patrick Süskind
• The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China by Mark Elvin
• God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations for Modern Science by James Hannam
• The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto by Pico Iyer
• A Crisis of Saints: The Call to Heroic Faith in an Unheroic World by Fr. George Rutler
• The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom
• Religion in the Making by A. N. Whitehead
• Wittgenstein: Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology, and Religious Belief (ed.) by Cyril Barrett
• Introducing Radical Orthodoxy: Mapping a Post-Secular Theology by James K. A. Smith
• The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom by Simon Winchester
• Walking the Tightrope of Reason: The Precarious Life of a Rational Animal by Robert Fogelin
• The Curious History of Relativity: How Einstein's Theory of Gravity Was Lost and Found Again by Jean Eisenstaedt
• Hitler's Private Library: The Books That Shaped Him by Timothy W. Ryback
• Wittgenstein Reads Weininger (ed.) by David G. Stern & Béla Szabados
• Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder by Arnold Schwarzenegger with Douglas Hall Kent
• Natural Right and History by Leo Strauss
• Wittgenstein and Modern Philosophy by Justus Hartnack
• Wittgenstein Reads Freud: The Myth of the Unconscious by Jacques Bouveresse
• Essays on Wittgenstein's Tractatus (ed.) by Irving M. Copi & Robert W. Beard
• Hegel's Dialectic and Its Criticism by Michael Rosen
• The Rediscovery of the Mind by John Searle
• The Danger of Words and Writings on Wittgenstein by Maurice O'Connor Drury, David Berman (ed.), Michael Fitzgerald (ed.), John Hayes (ed.)
• From Religion to Philosophy: A Study in the Origins of Western Speculation by Francis M. Cornford
• How to Solve the Mind-Body Problem by Nicholas Humphrey
• The Evolving Brain: The Mind and the Neural Control of Behavior by C. H. Vanderwolf
• Neuroscience and Philosophy: Brain, Mind and Language by Maxwell Bennett, Daniel Dennett, Peter Hacker, John Searle
• Thomas Aquinas: Selected Philosophical Writings (ed.) by Timothy McDermott
• Cultural Movements and Collective History: Christopher Columbus and the Rewriting of the National Origin Myth by Timothy Kubal
• A Very Private Gentleman by Martin Booth
• The Reality of Time and the Existence of God: The Project of Proving God's Existence (1989) David Braine
• Contemporary Philosophy: Studies of Logical Positivism and Existentialism by Frederick Copleston
• Powers: A Study in Metaphysics (2001) by George Molnar
• Necessity, Cause and Blame: Perspectives on Aristotle's Theory (1980) by Richard Sorabji
• Labyrinth: A Search for the Hidden Meaning of Science (2001) by Peter Pesic
• "Gavagai!" Or the Future History of the Animal Language Controversy (1986) by David Premack
• Darwin Among the Machines (1997) by George Dyson
• The Grand Design (2010) by Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow
• Are Quanta Real? A Galilean Dialogue (1973) by Josef M. Jauch
• Galileo in Rome: The Rise and Fall of a Troublesome Genius (2004) by William R. Shea & Mariano Artigas
• Einstein 1905: The Standard of Greatness (2005) by John S. Rigden
• Scientist and Catholic: Pierre Duhem (1990) by Stanley L. Jaki
• What Distinguishes Human Understanding? (2002) by John Deely
• The Logical Leap: Induction in Physics (2010) by David Harriman, Leonard Peikoff (Introduction)
• A Contemporary Introduction to Free Will (2005) by Robert Kane
• Kant (Blackwell Great Minds) (2005) by Allen W. Wood
• The Soul of the Person: A Contemporary Philosophical Psychology (2006) by Adrian Reimers
• The Logic Manual (2010) by Volker Holbach (incl. associated webpage!)
• Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories (1958) by Truman Capote
• Pure Drivel (1999) by Steve Martin
• Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar (1989) by Edwin G. Pulleyblank
• The Concept of Mind (1947) by Gilbert Ryle
• The Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of a Universe (2007) by Michael Frayn
• Invariances: The Structure of the Objective World (2001) by Robert Nozick
• Cosmos in Transition: Studies in the History of Cosmology (1990) by Stanley L. Jaki
• War of the Worlds: The Assault on Reality (1996) by Mark Slouka
• How Real is Real? Confusion, Disinformation, Communication (1976) by Paul Watzlawick
• The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods (1920/1934) by A. G. Sertillanges, O.P.
• Aquinas: A Beginner's Guide (2009) by Edward Feser
• De Rationibus Fidei (ca. 1264) by St. Thomas Aquinas
• Schopenhauer (1967) by Patrick Gardiner
• Causation and Laws of Nature in Early Modern Philosophy (2009) by Walter Ott
• God's Existence. Can it be Proven? A Logical Commentary on the Five Ways of Thomas Aquinas (2010) by Paul Weingartner
• Schopenhauer: A Very Short Introduction (2002) by Christopher Janaway
• Thomas Aquinas: Selected Writings (1998) (ed.) Ralph McInerny• An Introduction to Philosophical Logic (1982; 1st ed.) by A. C. Grayling
• Self, Logic, and Figurative Thinking (2009) by Harwood Fisher
• The Development of Logic (1962) by William Kneale & Martha Kneale
• Self, Logic, and Figurative Thinking (2009) by Harwood Fisher
• The Development of Logic (1962) by William Kneale & Martha Kneale
• God Is a Bullet by Boston Teran
• The Blue Hour by T. Jefferson Parker
• Under the Dome by Stephen King
• Duma Key by Stephen King
• The Dead Zone by Stephen King
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
• The Terror by Dan Simmons
• The Talisman by Stephen King & Peter Straub
• Point Omega by Don DeLillo
• Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
• The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon
• The Nature of the Mind by Peter Carruthers
• Personal Identity by Harold Noonan
• Theory and Truth by Lawrence Sklar
• Philosophical Logic by John P. Burgess
• Philosophy of Logic by W.V.O. Quine
• From a Logical Point of View by W.V.O. Quine
• Everywhere and Everywhen by Nick Huggett
• Thinking about Physics by Roger G. Newton
• Real Essentialism by David Oderberg
• Why Marx Was Right (2011) by Terry Eagleton
• Logic (1985) by Juan Jose Sanguineti
• Nominalism and Realism – Volume 1 of Universals and Scientific Realism (1980) by D. M. Armstrong
• A Theory of Universals – Volume 2 of Universals and Scientific Realism (1980) by D. M. Armstrong
• Couplehood by Paul Reiser
• What Matters? Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth by Wendell Berry
• The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism by Robert P. Murphy, Ph.D.
• Toward a Truly Free Market: A Distributist Perspective on the Role of Government, Taxes, Health Care, Deficits, and More (2010) by John M. Médaille
• Leibniz's Mill: A Challenge to Materialism (2011) by Charles Landesman
• The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism by Kevin D. Williamson
• In Defence of Global Capitalism (2001) by Johan Norberg
• The "Poisoned Spring" of Economic Libertarianism –– Menger, Mises, Hayek, Rothbard: A Critique from Catholic Social Teaching of the 'Austrian School' of Economics (2011) by Angus Sibley
• Micro (2012) by Michael Crichton w/ Richard Preston
• The Case for Working with Your Hands, Or Why Office Work Is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good (2010) by Stephen Crawford
• The Conscience of a Liberal (2009) by Paul Krugman
• Free Lunch: Easily Digestible Economics, Served on a Plate (2003) by David Smith
• The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else (2000) by Hernando de Soto
• Why Most Things Fail: Evolution, Extinction & Economics (2005) by Paul Ormerod
• What's Wrong with the World (1910) by G.K. Chesterton
• The Servile State (1912) by Hilaire Belloc
• The Sun of Justice: An Essay on the Social Teaching of the Catholic Church (1938) by Harold Robbins
• Next (2006) by Michael Crichton
• Before I Go to Sleep (2011) by S. J. Watson
• A Stab in the Dark (1981) by Lawrence Block
• Goliath (2002) by Steve Alten
• Now Wait for Last Year (1966) by Philip K. Dick
• The Communist Manifesto: A Norton Critical Edition (1848/1988) by Karl Marx, ed. by Frederic L. Bender
• From Political Economy to Economics: Method, the Social and the Historical in the Evolution of Economic Theory (2009) by Dimitris Milonakis & Ben Fine
• End the Fed (2009) by Ron Paul
• The Persistence of the Old Regime: Europe to the Great War ([1981] 2010 2nd ed.) by Arno J. Mayer
[The complete list of all the books I've read in the past 18 years or so is, I think––I hope, still!––mostly on an old hard drive and on a file in my laptop. Let me know if you want it, for some odd reason. -- 6 Dez 09]
9 comments:
Wow, lots of Gilson. Can you recommend any good Catholic fiction from the last few decades?
I would say Walker Percy is your best bet. There's also some recently deceased Southern Catholic writer I noticed in an edition of OSV.
Also, Jamie, if by some slim chance you see this thread again, check out John Fante, the Catholic Bukowski before the Catholic Bukowski. Not exactly orthodox, but he does at least make the Catholic experience a central part of his writings and American consciousness.
Just what other languages are you exactly fluent in, besides Chinese & German?
Damn! I wish I could read books that were in languages other than English as you yourself seem capable of so doing!
By the way, how quickly do you actually complete reading a particular book you dedicate such study to?
e.,
I am "fluent" in English, German, and Mandarin. I can pick my way through Spanish and Latin texts. I put fluent in scare quotes because, in the first case, my oral-aural German has really fallen in the past few years (though my reading is still quite good), and, in the second case, while my oral-aural Mandarin is quite good nowadays, my reading is much slower. It takes me easily four times as long to read a longish work in Chinese as it does in English or German. My oral-aural Spanish is by now quite poor, but my background in Latin and Spanish allow me to, as I say, work through texts as a kind of chronic hobby.
Best,
Well, maybe I should say 2-3 times longer to read Chinese. It depends on the topic and my motivation. ;)
Were these languages self-taught or were you formally educated in these?
(If it happened to have been self-taught, could you recommend some resources? If not, what schools did you happen to attend and what courses?)
How long did it take you before you mastered them and became fluent?
Thanks!
e.,
I studied Latin in 7th and 8th grades, then took four years of German in high school, before majoring in Germanic studies in college for a BA. Along the way I took two years of Spanish and studied Russian a bit on my own. I came to Taiwan knowing literally no Chinese, but my first year I focused intensely on oral-aural ability, and when I decided to stay a second year, I took about 10 months of textbook classes at a small language center. After that, the past four years or so have all been self-study with an increasing emphasis on literacy in Chinese. Meanwhile, I continue to "improve" my Latin by reading the Vulgate and picking through various latin course books, as well as reading in/about a fair share of Scholastic thought. Fluency takes years and I actually deny I am "fluent" in anything but English. The key is to learn enough to USE a language for your own interests in your mother tongue. Learning a language to learn the language is ultimately a stifling dead end (unless you are into pure linguistics or philology).
Best,
"Learning a language to learn the language is ultimately a stifling dead end (unless you are into pure linguistics or philology)."
Indeed, only a mad person would want to learn a language simply for the sake of doing so.
As far as my own purpose is concerned, I would like to rely on primary, original sources without having to lean heavily on somebody else's translations since there might be things that aren't coming across (e.g., nuances) as a result of their translation process.
Most of the sources that I would like to read are in Latin.
That said, if you have any recommendations or advise on how I should go about this, it would be greatly appreciated.
I know that simply learning the language might not be enough; therefore, if you have any other hints on how I might be able to gain such proficiency so as to become capable of doing exactly this; that would be great!
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