The War of Art, by Steven Pressfield
Request: Hugely popular book on how to overcome the barriers to creativity and success.
Arts & Humanities
For the Children’s Sake, by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay
Foundations of Education for Home and School. Request: Looking into different kindergarten programs for my child that base their curriculum on this book.
legend of Lilith
Priority request: My aunt says she's a symbol of female empowerment, independence, and resistance to oppression. "The first wife of Adam and a primordial she-demon, Lilith is cited as having been 'banished' from the Garden of Eden for not complying with and obeying Adam" -- wikipedia.
antinatalism
A philosophical view that deems procreation to be unethical. Antinatalists thus argue that humans should abstain from having children -- wikipedia. Request: Recently a very common view among my acquaintances.
Occam's razor
Popularly, the principle is sometimes paraphrased as "The simplest explanation is usually the best one"-- wikipedia.
broken windows theory
states that visible signs of crime, anti-social behavior and civil disorder create an urban environment that encourages further crime and disorder, including serious crimes -- wikipedia.
selling AI-generated art
Priority request: … virtually anyone can generate "their own" art using free software. The issue is, AI can only copy from existing pieces, so it's … seen as somewhat disingenuous, given that it takes little to no effort on the part of the "artist".
fatalism
Included in this is the belief that all events are decided by fate and are outside human control, hence humans have no power to influence the future or indeed the outcome of their own thoughts and actions -- wikipedia. Priority request.
relativism
"Such an outlook is quite congenial to an individualist ethic, wherein each individual is faced with his own truth, different from the truth of others. Taken to its extreme consequences, this individualism leads to a denial of the very idea of human nature" - Pope John Paul II.
natural law
Request: a theory in ethics and philosophy that says that human beings possess intrinsic values that govern their reasoning and behavior.
Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell
"one of the most famous and influential novels of the 20th century. This terrifying dystopia, which he created in a time of great social and political unrest, remains acutely relevant and influential to this day" -- amazon.
stoicism
"a philosophy of personal ethics informed by its system of logic and its views on the natural world" --wikipedia
communism
"political and economic doctrine that aims to replace private property and a profit-based economy with public ownership and communal control of at least the major means of production (e.g., mines, mills, and factories) and the natural resources of a society" -- britannica.com.
analytic idealism
"a metaphysical framework proposed by philosopher Bernardo Kastrup, which posits that consciousness is the fundamental, ontological primitive, and that the entire universe is a projection of an indivisible, instinctive consciousness" -- Brave AI.
Hermann Hesse
"His best-known works include Demian, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game, each of which explores an individual's search for authenticity, self-knowledge and spirituality" -- wikipedia.