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Originally Posted by HarryT
Freud is certainly widely considered to be a philosopher. You'll find him, for example, in the highly-regarded "Internet Encyclopaedia of philosophy" at http://www.iep.utm.edu. |
I believe that would be taken into consideration because most of his standpoints were debunked (being greatly seen in the workshop of philosophical studies instead) yet his work is not philosophical in the very least (at least HIS work) and calling him strictly a philosopher is a slap in the face, since his work is a lot more clinical and scientific (as debunked as it may be).
There is a book I read half-way through that is Freud as Philospher which hits his work in a philosophical context yet never merges both in one whole unit. Sure it mixes details and links them together, but never sets them in one whole piece. Really good, long, monotonous, worthy read.
VERY off track though I just went on a huge tangent.. lemme get back in the rail
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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht
Um, you do realize [that] Amazon has nothing to do with the contents of the book, it's only the selling agent.
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Precisely.. Amazon really has nothing to do with the books quality or production.. only the release which in itself is quite very mucho importante. It's like the example I used earlier, buying two of the same book from different publishers... one being really bad and one being really good.
Some Amazon books are really good. Some other books are not that good or have different bits and changes, depending on the publisher. Amazon really does not get into those details, which is the question asked by the crazy cat lady with a tin foil hat who made that article: " is it good for the books?"
Well, as long as Amazon doesn't monopolize the books content for their benefit, I'm pretty sure it is good, specially if you can see reviews of the book before having to purchase it. Bad books will always be in the market so I don't see why is it so bad. However, bad books in Amazon is nothing new. Like in any other online purchase, people need to check the reviews of the product first.
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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht
In this case, if you bought the free one I did, at the end of the book it says "Printed by C. Subbarayuda, at the Vasanta Press, The Theosophical Society, Adyar, Madras"
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Yup.. The Theosophical Society. The one I have though has the missing details that the free kindle edition doesn't have. I wonder 'who' is doing 'what' in 'where' on this book. I got a physical copy, and if you read it a few times, you can see some differences. Not so prominent, yet clear differences.
Odd, to say the least