Foxtail pine: Help for Japanese related things (at Japan World University and School)! Philosophy or life book recommendations, "Tao te Ching" translated into English around 1972 by Gia-fu Feng, and by Jane English who took the beautiful photographs, Harvard's Willard Van Orman Quine "The Web of Belief" (focusing on science and reason), Thomas Nagel's "What Does It All Mean? A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy" and his seminal paper on consciousness "What is it like to be a bat?", Implicit philosophy of eliciting loving bliss neurophysiology in my blog here, you'll also find a kind of philosophy in my Friends' Dalton letter, Quaker Meeting in many ways allows one to listen to and share one's own philosophy with Friends in the context of a kind of meditation / sitting in silence, in the unprogrammed tradition, Nobel Peace Prize address to Quakers in 1947

Hi Scott,

I'm Sato who you met in the cafe on Berkeley campus!
It was nice meeting you! Let me know if you need any help for Japanese related things (at Japan World University and School)! I'll help you as much as possible.

By the way, do you have any recommendation for books to read? I'm interested in philosophy or life.

Best

Sato,

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Hi Sato!

Very nice to get your email, and thank you for your email. And very nice to meet you, as well! 

It will be fun to develop Japan World University and School http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Japan and Japanese_language WUaS http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Japanese_language together and in Japanese together. 

What philosophy or life books would you recommend? 

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For philosophy or life, the first enjoyable book that came to mind is the Tao te Ching translated into English around 1972 by Gia-fu Feng, and by Jane English, who took the beautiful photographs. 

Here are some other versions: 

http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/taote-v3.html

http://terebess.hu/english/tao/_index.html

b

Harvard's

Willard Van Orman Quine "The Web of Belief" (focusing on knowing vis-a-vis science and reason) was written as an introduction to philosophy.

c

Thomas Nagel's "What Does It All Mean? A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy"

http://sjmse-library.sch.ng/E-Books%20Phil/WHAT%20DOES%20IT%20ALL%20MEAN_.pdf

I also find fascinating Tom Nagel's seminal paper on consciousness "What is it like to be a bat?"
http://organizations.utep.edu/portals/1475/nagel_bat.pdf

d

There's an implicit philosophy of eliciting loving bliss neurophysiology in my blog - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/loving%20bliss - and you'll also find a kind of philosophy in my Friends' Dalton letter - http://scottmacleod.com/daltonletter.htm.

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Quaker Meeting (there's one in Tokyo as well - http://tokyofriendscenter.org/welcome/) in many ways allows one to listen to and share one's own philosophy with Friends in the context of a kind of meditation / sitting in silence, in the unprogrammed tradition. Would you like to come to Quaker Meeting in SF on Sunday November 8th which meets near Japan Town actually? I find this Nobel Peace Prize address to Quakers - http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1947/press.html - inspiring and expressing a kind of philosophy.

Best, 

Scott

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