A Catalog of My Mind

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Pride and Prejudice

Author: Jane Austen

Genre: Fiction, Literature

Times read: 1

Date read: 2014

Comments: I never thought I'd be an Austenite and here we are. Perhaps I was just a little prejudiced. 

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Theologico-Political Treatise

Author: Benedict de Spinoza

Genre: Philosophy, Theology

Times Read: 2

Date Read: 2014

Comments: Read for St. John's Philosophy and Theology Preceptorial

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Beyond Good and Evil

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

Genre: Philosophy

Times Read: 1

Date Read: 2014 

Comments: Read for St' John's Philosophy and Theology Tutorial

I have been thinking about masks and recurrence a lot lately.

"The secretive one, whose instincts bid him speak in order to silence and be silent, this person wants and demands that in his stead a mask inhabit the hearts and minds of his friends; and should it be that this is something he does not want, then one day his eyes will be opened to the fact that a mask of him is there nevertheless, and that that is good. Every deep spirit needs a mask: not only that, around every deep spirit a mask is continually growing, thanks to the constantly false, that is to say , shallow interpretations of his every word, his every step, every sign of life he gives."

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Prologomena to Any Future Metaphysics

Author: Immanuel Kant

Genre: Philosophy

Times Read: 1

Date Read: 2014

Comments: Read for St. John's Philosophy and Theology Tutorial

More to digest about embodied cognition

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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Author: David Hume

Genre: Philosophy

Times Read: 1

Date Read: 2014

Comments: Read for St. John's Philosophy and Theology Tutorial

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De Anima

Author: Aristotle

Genre: Philosophy

Times Read: 1

Date Read: 2014

Comments: Read for philo/theo segment St. John's

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Metaphysics

Author: Aristotle

Genre: Philosophy

Times Read: 1

Date Read: 2014

Comments: Read for philo/theo segment St. John's

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Physics

Author: Aristotle

Genre: Philosophy

Times Read: 1

Date Read: 2014

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Philosophical Fragments

Author: Søren Kierkegaard

Genre:Philosophy

Times Read: 1

Date Read: 2014

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Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals

Author: Immanuel Kant

Genre: Philosophy

Times Read: 1

Date Read: 2014

Comments: Need to reread, Kant requires repeated digestion. 

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Summa Theologica

Author: St. Thomas Aquinas

Genre: Theology, Philosophy

Times Read: 1

Date Read: 2014

Comments: I still am turning over embodiment and how that shapes the mind.

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Confessions

Author: Augustine

Genre: Theology, Philosophy

Times Read: 1

Date Read: 2014

Comments: Augustine is a beautiful writer at times. An intreresting journey in introspection. Need to reread now that I have a personal context for catholic guilt.

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The Bible

Author: Various

Genre: Theology

Times Read: 1: Genesis, 1-112, 12-50, Exodus, Job, Matthew,  John, Romans

Date Read: 2014

Comments: It was interesting to read the source material for myself.

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Orlando

Author: Virginia Woolf

Genre: Fiction, Literature

Times Read: 1

Date Read: 2014

Comments: “Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.” 

“As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.” 

“By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.” 

“To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.” 

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1Q84

Author: Haruki Murakami

Genre: Fiction, Fantasy

Times Read: 1

Date Read: 2014

Comments: I had been wanting to read this for a while and I was not disappointed. 

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Warriors Don't Cry

Author:Melba Pattillo Beals

Genre: Non-Fiction, Black History

Times Read: 1

Date Read: 2002

Comments: I never forgot this book. I think about it a lot now as I fight for education equity, still. 

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The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Author: Malcolm X, Alex Haley

Genre: Non-Fiction, Black History

Times Read: 1

Date Read: 2002

Comments: I'm really glad I was exposed to stories outside the regular mainstream historical narrative at a fairly young age.