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Philosophers
General
Introduction
A long time ago,
before the advent of the personal computer, I thought it would be a good
idea to write a series of comments on philosophical books more or less as
this was done in the Middle Ages or in the Torah.
These days such
comments are possible on a personal computer in the form of hypertext,
which makes the making and reading of comments to texts different from
what it must be in books, while it has the additional benefit that the result can be put on the internet.
At present there are the texts by and on the philosophers in the left pane on
this site - 21 or 22 texts now (depending how one counts, and not counting my
own), mostly with my detailed comments, that usually are at least as long as
the text they comment, and are independently readable.
Since my
Philosophical Dictionary
now has over 500 entries extending over some 10 MB I am updating my philosophy
pages with links to the terms in the
Philosophical Dictionary.
Also, it may be well to add the names of some
philosophers some of whose texts I would like to add to my site with my
comments:
- Lao Tzu: Tao Teh King
- Buddha: some selected sutra's and
summaries
- Plato: Republic, Theaetetus
-
Aristotle: Metaphysics,
Ethics,
Politics
- Epicurus: Selected texts
- Chuang Tzu: Selected texts (Main
chapters)
- Epictetus: Selected texts
- Lucretius: Selected texts
- Aurelius: Selected texts
- Scotus: Selected texts on God and
free will
- Ockham: Selected texts on logic
- Galileo: Selected texts on science
- Hobbes: Selected texts
- Rochefoucauld: All maxims
- Swift: Selected texts
- Chamfort:
All
Maxims and Thoughts
-
Hazlitt: Selected essays and
aphorisms
- Marx: Communist Manifesto
- Schopenhauer: Selected texts
- Nietzsche: Selected texts
To what extent and when I will succeed doing
this will depend on my health.
And it should be noted that I have included
works by several authors that are not usually considered to be philosophical.
I included these works because I think they are, or that if they are not, then
they certainly are relevant to philosophy, as I think of it.