Yes, I’m reading another philosophy book. After reading Simon Blackburn in What Philosophers Think I decided to buy his Oxford Ditionary of Philosophy and read Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy. So far, I’ve read the section on the problem of evil and very much enjoyed the Microsoft analogy presented by Blackburn.

Yes, I’m listening to another C.S. Lewis book on my iPod. This time it’s The Problem of Pain. I’m writing a research paper on the problem of pain/the problem of evil and an LDS theodicy of my own.

The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World’s Greatest Philosophers by Will Durant delivers on its title’s promise.

What can I say? Even though I’m taking Intro to Phil and Phil of Religion and attending The Think Factory and reading “What Philosophers Think,” and I just finished “The Question of God,” “Mere Christianity,” “The Great Divorce,” and “The Abolition of Man,” I just can’t seem to get enough philosophy in my life. So now I’m listening to “The Story of Philosophy” by Will Durant on my iPod while driving to and from school.

After reading Thomas L. Freidman’s The Lexus and the Olive Tree and The World is Flat, I had decided to read Jihad Vs. McWorld by Benjamin R. Barber, Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph E. Stiglitz and In Defense of Globalization by Jagdish Bhagwati. I meant to read Jihad Vs. McWorld over Christmas break, but never got around to it. Once I started the spring semester with Principles of Sociolgy Honors, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that it would be required reading for the class. I started reading Part I: The New World of McWorld last weekend and will probably finish reading it this weekend. With all the other reading assigned by this and other professors, Part II: The Old World of Jihad may take another week or two. As for the other two books, they’ll have to wait until after summmer school when I take a semester off before transferring to BYU.

This was my third C.S. Lewis book this month. I enjoyed listening to all three (Mere Christianity, The Great Divorce and The Abolition of Man) and look forward to listening to or reading more. The Abolition of Man is Lewis’ look at the Enlightment and its misleading conclusions.

After listening C.S. Lewis’ Mere Chrisitanity, I decided to listen to this one and The Abolition of Man. This one was strange, but enjoyable and well worthwhile reading. It is Lewis’ discoure on the natural man.

I’m reading this for The Think Factory.

My Philosophy of Religion professor, Jason Moulenbelt, suggested “The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life” by Armand M. Nicholi Jr. as a starting point for my research paper for his class. After downloading it from Audible.com and listening to it on my iPod, I decided to download “Mere Christianity” by C.S. Lewis and listen to it too. I’ll probably also read “Civilization and Its Discontents” by Sigmund Freud (it’s not available for download from Audible.com). I’ll probably write about the problem of evil from the diametrically opposed points of view of Lewis (the ultimate Christian apologist, who was once an atheist) and Freud (the ultimate atheist). My working title is “Evil? No Problem: A Theodicy”. Another possibility is “Necessary Evil: A Theodicy”.

I’m consuming this for my research paper for my Philosophy of Religion class.