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Philosophical Works and The Meaning of Reality

I would put the texts in the following order:

William James - Some Problems of Philosophy
Rene Descartes - Meditations on First Philosophy
Non-Cartesian Soums
Luckmann & Berger -- The Social Construction of Reality
George Orwell -- 1984
Hannah Arendt -- Eichmann in Jerusalem
Lem -- The Futurological Congress
Ong -- Orality & Literacy
Jean-Paul Sartre -- Nausea
Abram -- The Spells of the Sensuous

Along with a cohesiveness of thought, the order in which they are presented allows for a build, a sort of piling-on effect of knowledge, such that we could travel from the beginning and nature of existence, through the tools we use to exist, concluding the meaning (or lack) of that existence.

First, William James tells us that ?philosophy, beginning in wonder, as Plato and Aristotle said, is able to fancy everything different from what it is. It sees the familiar as if it were strange, and the strange as if it were familiar. It can take things up and lay them down again. Its mind is full of air that plays round eve... [to view the full essay now, purchase below]

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