Recommended Books
A Conflict of Visions
by Thomas Sowell
Recommended by: Tom
Beyond left and right, major historic and contemporary ideological conflicts revolve around two conflicting "visions" of human nature: the "constrained" and "unconstrained." Nothing I have read in recent years goes so far in making these conflicts understandable.
The Abolition of Man
by C.S. Lewis
Recommended by: Tom
"You musn't put a gun to the Tao's head" (as do those of the
"unconstrained" vision).
The Master and Margarita
by Mikael Bulgakov
Recommended by: Roland
Yes, I know it is fiction, but even Kant did not provide as compelling an argument for the existence of God as Professor Woland does. And yes, I know it is a Russian novel (fairly long with a number of characters, all with three different names to keep track of), but Russian authors have a depth of thought about them that is as big as their country.
Parallel Worlds
by Michio Kaku
Recommended by: Tom Frieze
Here it is: an accessible discussion by a leading physicist of quantum theory and its implications. Chapter Six, especially, relates to the subject of parallel universes discussed at our recent meeting.
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