> On Aug 31, 2:10 pm, Shrikeb...@gmail.com wrote:
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>> On Aug 31, 11:09 am, BretCah...@peoplepc.com wrote:

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>>>> Hi. What book or books would you recommend on philosophy as a whole? I
>>>> mean a kind of textbook, a survey, an introduction. I just don't know a
>>>> good one.

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>>> Supposedly _The Republic_ is recommended if you want a one book
>>> library.  Basically Socrates attacks of all the decadent hypocrisy in
>>> ancient Athens.

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>> Oh please.  Basically in _The Republic_ Plato
>> equivocates on the definition of the word "justice"
>> to make apologies for a Spartan, 1984-with-a-
>> happy-face, State.  Everyone prefers the earlier
>> dialogues.

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>>> Later Heller did the same in _Picture This_.

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>> Oh, please.  Everyone knows that Heller's
>> masterpiece is _Catch-22_, after which he
>> simply jumped the shark, as the saying goes.
>> It's incredible how someone who could write
>> Catch-22, which is one of the funniest novels
>> of the twentieth century, could only rise to
>> the level of the uninspired yawn-fests his
>> works since have been.  The wonder of the
>> one-hit wonder.

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> *Catch 22* was all right, but for some reason
> I liked his second novel, *Something Happened* more.
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