Lot 7 Mentor textbk GREEK~IDEOLOGY~TALMUD~RELATIVITY~REASON~PUBLIC PHILOSOPHY

Description: Lot of 7 gold Mentor paperbacks designed to be freshman college textbooks at the time. Sold as reading copies: expect all flaws. Clockwise, from the top left: Rex Warner, the well-known scholar and classicist, presents a survey of Greek philosophy, from its beginnings in Ionia to its decline under the Roman Empire. Here, in one volume, are gathered the pertinent ideas of the great thinkers, analyzed and interpreted in their historical context - a significant body of thought that has influenced man down through the ages. [1958] *** In this stimulating volume, a noted scholar presents the philosophy of the 19th century, the most explosive and revolutionary period in the evolution of formal thinking since the collision of rationalism and traditional Christianity. Pointing out that the philosophers of the 19th century agreed in their systematic breakdown of the traditional philosophical methods and views of the traditional subjects of philosophy, Henry D. Aiken demonstrates the trends that lead up to philosophical dilemmas of our own day through a selection of the writings of such diverse thinkers as Kant, Schopenhauer, Comte, Spencer, Marx, and Kierkegaard [1956] *** his is a translation of Pinke Abot (The Wisdom of the Fathers) which is a collection of maxims, saying of the Synagogue Fathers from the Men of the Great Assembly (sometime between the latter half of the Fifth and Third centuries B.C.) down through the descendants of Rabbi Judah the Prince in the third Century A.D.) page 10: These sayings are “reflections on what constitutes God-fearing, civilized conduct and thought.” “Pirke Abot is one of the treatises of the Talmud…in this way they made the ancient wisdom of the Fathers a fresh testament for the Sons. And thus, the text of Pirke Abot and the classical commentaries on it became an active constituent of the legacy of the living Talmud.” P. 10The introduction describes Mishnah as “analysis and interpretation of scripture”. Most of the book consists of commentaries of the six chapters on the Wisdom of the Fathers. Some of this in interesting but fairly challenging and slow reading. There are lots of nuggets of wisdom but also lots of nitpicky kinds of stuff primarily of interest to scholars. The book is well worth the trouble of ploughing through it. As it says on page 236: “How grand is Torah, for to those who engage in it, it gives life in this world and the world to come.”Also included are Acknowledgments, List of Commentators and Index of Sages. 247 pages. [1957] *** Regarding the dramatically different character of the light spectrum (it’s not only fast….): “The velocity of light will always be constant at 186,000 miles a second relative to the observer. Just think of it. This means that a light wave leaving a star will have a velocity of 186,000 miles a second relative to an observer, regardless of whether he and the star are approaching or separating at a relative velocity of 185,999 miles a second or one mile a second!”Regarding an object moving at the speed of light: “Does the object disappear? This is precisely what the formula says does happen, for it is easily seen that as v approaches the velocity of light, c, the length of the object approaches zero. And at v equal to c, the length is zero, which means that the object has disappeared….if we let v increase to the point where it is equal to the velocity of light, c, the denominator becomes zero, which means that the mass becomes infinite.” There’s something about speed - is it added energy from the outside that increases speed -- that converts an object to energy, with (mathematically?) infinite mass?“The vibrating atom is similar to the vibrating string. A particular string will vibrate at a set frequency depending on its length, tension, etc., which does not change unless the length, tension, etc., change. Similarly, every atom vibrates at its own particular frequency, which should not change. But if it does change, it means that the time processes in the atom have changed. In particular, if the frequency decreases, we have seen this means that the time per vibration has increased, or that time itself has slowed down in the particular atom.”Regarding unified field theory: gravitational attraction, i.e., every object in the universe attracts every other object,” is similar to “other types of forces (unlike electric charges will also attract each other)…And we also have a similar formula giving the force of attraction between two unlike magnetic poles (a north magnetic pole and a south magnetic pole)….the three equations which mathematically express different and entirely unrelated phenomena are identical in form….Gravitational forces are forces of attraction only, but electric and magnetic forces can be of attraction or repulsion….the similarity between the three types of forces (gravitational, electric, and magnetic) is so striking that it seems as if all three must be branches of a more fundamental or basic phenomenon of nature….When two gravitational masses or electric charges or magnetic poles) attract each other, the interaction takes place in the region, or field between the masses….It may very well be that there exists such a thing as nuclear fields….Is it not possible that a gravitational force of repulsion can exist in our universe and that this missing link awaits our discovery of the general laws of fields before we can create such a repulsive gravitational force?” Is gravitational attraction also repulsion (resistance); if more energy (relative mass) attracts, does it more strongly resist the attraction of a lesser mass? [1957] *** Evoking the Greeks from the time of Homer to the fall of Athens in 404 B.C., this historical study examines the great civilization that has been an inspiring and liberating influence on succeeding generations of people since the end of the classical world. [1959] *** A brief look at the philosophical thoughts of Bacon, Pascal, Hobbes, Galileo, Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz. [1957] *** Begun in 1938 and completed only in 1955, The Public Philosophy offers as much a glimpse into the private philosophy of America's premier journalist of the twentieth century as it does a public philosophy.The basis of Lippmann's effort is "that there is a deep disorder in our society which comes not from the machinations of our enemies and from the adversaries of the human condition but from within ourselves." He also provides a special sort of legacy to liberalism in its broadest sense - as the root approach to human existence that could provide civility and accommodation against incivilities and extremism, and that uniquely stood against the totalitarian counter-revolutions from Jacobism to Leninism. This work is a masterful defense of the public philosophy as a constitutional tradition, and can be easily read as such today.Paul Roazen, long identified with the analysis of Lippmann's work, points out that no matter how trenchantly Lippmann dissected democracy, and the populist faith in the people's wisdom, he still sought to study the world in order to help govern it. His constant flow of journalistic writing had the educative intent of raising the level of the public's knowledge. His rationalist conviction that clearheadedness on public matters can be effectively relayed to people is nowhere more evident than in The Public Philosophy. In this sense it is an argument for the democratic ideal that people can be rallied in defense of the public interest.

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