Pyongwon Lee

[Milton Friedman] Capitalism and Freedom

Title: Capitalism and Freedom
Author: Milton Friedman
Published: 2002
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0-226-26421-1

“Capitalism and Freedom” is Friedman’s most influential book of neoliberalism. The central theme of this book is to argue how to maximize freedom through the free market and a small government.

[Stanislaw Lem] The Invincible

Title: The Invincible
Author: Stanislaw Lem (translated by Bill Johnston)
Published: 1973
Publisher: Pro Auctire Wojciech Zemek (printed 2017)
ISBN: 978-83-63471-54-5

[Slavoj Zizek] Looking Awry

Title: Looking Awry – An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture
Author: Slavoj Zizek
Published: 1992
Publisher: The MIT Press
ISBN: 978-0-262-74015-9

[Jean Baudrillard] In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities

Title: In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities or, the End of the Social
Author: Jean Baudrillard
Published: 1982
Publisher: Semiotext(e), Columbia University (1993)
ISBN-10: 0-936756-00-4

[Hannah Arendt] The Human Condition

Title: The Human Condition: Second Edition
Author: Hannah Arendt
Published: 1958
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; 2nd edition (Dec 1 1998)
ISBN-10: 0226025985
ISBN-13: 978-0226025988

Philosophizing My Life – Knowledge

Do I really know something?

Philosophers generally agree that knowledge is JUSTIFIED TRUE BELIEFS. You have an idea that can be determined true or false (proposition), and then if you can justify why your idea is true, you have knowledge.

Philosophizing – The World

The first step of philosophizing my life is to know the world where we live (more correctly, where I live).

Philosophizing

Studying philosophy (Reading philosophy books) as a non-philosophy scholar is a daunting task. What is the reward for it? It is just an intellectual challenge or a complicated puzzle game for past times. What does philosophy do to me?