JUST TEN? ARE YOU KIDDING? Sean Ring, Johannes Meixner, Michael Parley Griffith,

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Sean Ring, Johannes Meixner, Michael Parley Griffith, Robyn Harte-Bunting Vincent Wolters, Brian Ó Caithnia, Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski.

There is a difference between books that affected me emotionally, books that affected my thinking, books I learned from, and books that I recommend. I keep a book list on Propertarianism.com that references all the books I recommend. But those are the books whose arguments and ideas are correct, not the books that affected me intellectually, emotionally or spiritually.

Durant was wright that there are few answers in philosophy. Philosophy tells us of intellectual history, and makes one’s mind fit. That is all. It is the wishful thinking of man, not the evidence of man. Instead, history provides us with evidence of man to work from. History, Economics(cooperation) and evolutionary biology provide answers that philosophy does not, but only if our minds are fit enough to tell the difference between possible truth and possible fallacy.

HEROIC MAN AFFECTED ME MORALLY, EMOTIONALLY AND SPIRITUALLY

Heroism is the central western proposition.

The Iliad, the Odyssey, The Greek Myths, Aesop’s Fables. Pinocchio. Beowulf. Le Morte D’ Arthur. Shakespeare’s Henry V, Macbeth.Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Spencer’s The Faerie Queene. Ivanhoe. Howard’s Conan stories. Starship Troopers, A Wizard of Earthsea. Harlan Ellison’s stories. Time Enough For Love. Hobbit/LOTR. Dune. Snow Crash, and Neuromancer. (Campbell’s Hero with a Thousand Faces, Frazer’s The Golden Bough).

The principle pagan arguments are is the worship of the earth and the personal virtue of the heroism of man, and the political virtue of aristocracy as prevention against tyranny – under which the earth is not worshipped, man is not heroic, and the best do not rise for us to imitate their behaviors, and aspire to their achievements.

BOOKS THAT AFFECTED MY THINKING

The books that affect you are determined by where you were in your intellectual development. That is why the books that affect each of us are somewhat different. These are the books that I remember very much rearranging or influencing everything else that I understood at the time.

Encyclopedia Britannica. The Constitution and DoE. Biography of Samuel Colt. Durant’s Lessons of History. Karen Armstrong’s: The Great Transformation. Ceram’s Gods, Graves and Scholars. Mallory’s In Search of Indo Europeans. Axelrod’s Evolution of Cooperation. The Third Chimpanzee. Guns Germs and Steel. Kahneman’s Thinking fast and slow. Haidt’s The Righteous Mind. Keegan’s History of Warfare. Fussel’s Class. Rand’s aesthetics. Hayek’s Road to Serfdom, and essays on Knowledge. Popper’s CR and Open Universe. The many papers of the economic calculation argument.

BOOKS I RECOMMEND

Ricardo Duchesne: The Uniqueness of Western Civilization

JP Mallory: In Search of Indo Europeans

John Keegan: A History Of Warfare

Joseph Campbell : The Hero’s Journey

Karen Armstrong : The Great Transformation

William Tucker: Marriage and Civilization

Emmanuel Todd: The Explanation of Ideology

Emmanuel Todd: The Invention of Europe

Daniel Hannan: Inventing Freedom

Alan MacFarlane : Origins of English Individualism

Gregory Clark: A Farewell to Alms

Matt Ridley: The Red Queen

Dale Petersen: Demonic Males

Steven Pinker: The Better Angels of Our Nature

Daniel Kahneman: Thinking, Fast and Slow

Francis Fukuyama: Trust

Sam Harris : Lying

Steven Pinker : The Blank Slate

Jonathan Haidt: The Righteous Mind

Stephen Hicks : Explaining Postmodernism

Hans Hoppe: Democracy The God That Failed

BOOKS I LEARNED FROM

Well that’s too many to list, so I’ll just point to my web site: