I am reading a book of Alexander George and Daniel J. Velleman1 I could not write a review because I have not finished the book. This book is not about the history of philosophy and I would not either call it philosophy book because it includes so much mathematics and logic with tasks as well. So I do not mark my writing out for a review but I rather mention some thoughts of which arose while I was reading this.     Contents: 1. Sets and Classes 2. Potential and actual infinity 3. Law of excluded middle _______________________________ 1 Alexander George & Daniel J. Velleman , Philosophies of Mathematics

(Review) I had ambivalent feeling reading Paul Johnson's book on Socrates. On the one hand I am very happy to read about my favorite philosopher, and I agree completely with the title of the book, Socrates is really a man for our times. I add it to him that his timeliness never ceased. His enormous effect was permanent. Every age Socrates was a role model of a moral and clear life, he was an ideal of consistent free thinking. Paul Johnson’s bias feeling for Socrates would be acceptable for me if he would not have infallible statement in relation to the philosopher and the age of Socrates.  

Brief thoughts 1. The Edification of the Past Abstract:Karl Popper has true in big generality: The Time did not verify the things working for a long time, only the Time did not yet falsify them. 2. Complexity & Beauty Somewhere I read: At first the complexity makes itself attractive by its beauty, and finally its beauty makes complexity clear. And recently I read: „Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.”1 _________________________________ 1 David Gelernter, Machine Beauty: Elegance and the Heart of Technology

Thoughts on books of Kolakowski I do not agree with Kolakowski when he concludes that „.. perfection implies goodness is an arbitrary assumption”1 First of all, it would be necessary to think about what means really perfection. Kolakowski do this when he writes that “To be perfect in the first sense seems to mean to achieve the highest possible degree in the given ladder of being …”2 __________________________________ 1 Leszek Kolakowski, Metaphysical Horror (Basil Blackwell, 1988), page 80 2 Pre-cited op, page 80  

Thoughts on books of Kolakowski The "all religions are one" statement can mean two things according to Kolakowski1: - “There is a stock, however limited, of identifiable and expressible important beliefs which are common to all religions and in which all worshippers recognize themselves.”2 - “…all religions are culture-specific expressions of fundamentally the same human experience…”3 ________________________________ 1 Leszek Kolakowski, Metaphysical Horror (Basil Blackwell, 1988) 2 Pre-cited op, page 105 3 Pre-cited op, page 105