Showing posts with label British philosophy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label British philosophy. Show all posts
Saturday, February 15, 2025

A review of “Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead” (audiobook)

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Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead once collaborated on a book. It was a three-volume work entitled “ Principia Mathematica ” – no...
Monday, May 20, 2024

A review of John Stuart Mill’s “On Liberty” (audiobook)

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This audiobook changed my mind about utilitarianism . In my college years, I was a fan of utilitarianism. Now, I’m a little soured on it. I ...
Friday, April 5, 2024

A review of Thomas Hobbes’ “Leviathan” (audiobook)

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In the seventeenth century , Thomas Hobbes gave the most powerful argument ever written for the necessity of some form of government. His o...
Monday, January 15, 2024

Algernon Sidney influenced the U. S. Declaration of Independence

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“This book contains all the malice, and revenge, and treason, that mankind can be guilty of: It fixes the sole power in the parliament and t...
Wednesday, November 8, 2023

A review of “Duns Scotus and Medieval Christianity” (audiobook)

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The  Scottish   philosopher   Duns Scotus  got a bad rap after his death. The English word “dunce” comes from the name of “Duns Scotus.” ...
Tuesday, August 29, 2023

A review of John Locke’s “Two Treatises of Government” (audiobook)

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John Locke’s “Two Treatises of Government” is one of the greatest political works ever written. It had a massive influence on the founding d...
Monday, July 10, 2023

A review of William Blackstone’s “Commentaries on the Laws of England”

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“The objects of the laws of England are so very numerous and extensive, that, in order to consider them with any tolerable ease and perspic...
Sunday, May 7, 2023

A review of “David Hume” (audiobook)

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“It is evident, that all the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature: and that however wide any of them may seem to run f...
Tuesday, January 3, 2023

John Adams praised James Harrington’s “The Commonwealth of Oceana”

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“These are what are called revolution-principles. They are the principles of  Aristotle  and Plato , of Livy and Cicero , of Sydney , Harri...
Sunday, December 25, 2022

A review of “Isaac Newton’s New Physics” (audiobook)

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“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” – Isaac Newton, in a letter to Robert Hooke on 5 February 1675 Sir Is...
Wednesday, April 27, 2022

A review of Mary Wollstonecraft’s “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” (audiobook)

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Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the founding feminist philosophers. Her 1792 work “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” is one of the class...
Monday, July 26, 2021

A review of “Alfred Marshall and Neoclassicism” (audiobook)

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So I recently finished an audiobook about  Alfred Marshall , a British economist who lived from 1842 to 1924. This audiobook was called “Al...
Wednesday, June 16, 2021

A review of “The Classical Economists” (audiobook)

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“The statesman, who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself ...
Saturday, June 5, 2021

A review of “Keynes and the Keynesian Revolution” (audiobook)

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“But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too usele...
Tuesday, June 16, 2020

A review of “The Wealth of Nations: Adam Smith” (audiobook)

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“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own inter...
Friday, June 15, 2018

When King John signed the Magna Carta, it was like signing a surrender document …

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“No freemen shall be taken or imprisoned or disseised or exiled or in any way destroyed , nor will we go upon him nor send upon him, exce...