Carl Sagan was proud to be an agnostic when asked whether there was life elsewhere in the universe. When he refused to commit himself, his interlocutor pressed him for "gut feeling" and he immortally replied: "But I try not to think with my gut. Really, it's okay to reserve judgment until the evidence is in." --Richard Dawkins
Two types Agnosticism: TAP---Temporary Agnosticism in Practice; PAP---Permanent Agnosticism in Principle.
That I take to be the agnostic faith, which if a man keeps whole and undefiled, he shall not be shamed to look the universe in the face, no matter what the future may have in store for him. --T. H. Huxley (inventor of the Agnostic)
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
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Reading List
- Alain de Botton: The Consolations of Philosophy
- Alec Wilkinson: The Happiest Man in the World
- Bhagavad Gita As It Is
- Daniel C Dennett: Breaking the Spell
- Daniel C Dennett: Consciousness Explained
- Daniel C Dennett: Darwin's Dangerous Idea
- Daniel C Dennett: Freedom Evolves
- David Weeks: Eccentrics
- Edward O. Wilson: On Human Nature
- Friedrich Schiller: Essays (The German Library)
- G. I. Gurdijieff: Life Is Real Only Then, When "I Am"
- Hil Washburn, ed: The Many Faces of Wisdom
- John Kekes: The Art of Life
- John Strohmeier: Divine Harmony (Pythagoras)
- Matthew Stewart: The Truth about Everything
- Michel Foucault: Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth
- Michel Foucault: The Hermeneutics of the Subject
- Michel Waldberg: Gurdjieff: An Approach to His Ideas
- Osho: The Book of Understanding
- Osho: The Book of Wisdom
- P. D. Ouspensky: In Search of the Miraculous
- P. D. Ouspensky: The Fourth Way
- Paul C. Vitz: Faith of the Fatherless
- Pierre Hadot: What Is Ancient Philosophy (tr: Michael Chase)
- Robert Wright: Nonzero: the Logic of Human Destiny
- Robert Wright: The Evolution of God
- Robert Wright: The Moral Animal
- Seneca: Dialogues and Essays
- Seneca: Letters from a Stoic
- The Upanishads
- Xenophon: A History of My Time

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