For those of you who are interested.
I mentioned a book in my last blog, buried somewhere towards the bottom of one of the paragraphs, so I thought I would compile a list of books that I have read which I think are relevant to ethics and morality and even spirituality (since religion and morality have a tendency to go hand in hand). These are mostly novels, which to me is the best way to read philosophical ideas, in story form, it's much more interesting and usually makes more sense (for me at least)
1. Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
2. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
3. Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice
4. The Incarnations of Immortality Series by Piers Anthony (especially On a Pale Horse, For Love of Evil, & And Eternity)
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I'm dissapointed you didn't mention Nausea by Sartre or any of Camus' Novels, both very good stuff by people who actually had advanced degrees in Philosophy. I think that Voltiare also wrote a satirical novel critizing either Spinoza or Lebiniz's "happy optimism". It's on my reading list. Lots of Postmodern Literature also has Philosophical or Psuedo-Philosophical themes. Nice list though!
Illusions really is awesome. Atlas Shrugged is an interesting one for a number of reasons, for our purposes in this class, it's interesting because Rand presents her theory as one that is entirely motivated by self-interest but is, in fact, a very good example of utilitarianism. The question then becomes, for Rand, whether her empirical assumptions are justified.
Haven't read the others. I used to read all of Rice's stuff then they just started to get too dark for me. I don't know if I changed or if the books changed. I read a bunch pf Piers Anthony's stuff when I was in high school (the series that began with an X...I can remember what it was) until they started getting silly. Again, I don't know if I changed or if the books started to get worse.
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