The Aristos (1964)

Freedom of will is the highest human good; and it is impossible to have both that freedom and an intervening divinity. We, because we are a form of matter, are contingent; and this terrifying contingency allows our freedom.
Old Fowles is always thoughtful. I usually prefer reading Wodehouse and looking around for a loophole. ( )

I mostly agree with Fowles and think this contains several good reminders and tools, especially the idea of existentialsm as an approach to philosophy rather than a philosophy itself and the deal of "nemo, " the fourth corner to Freud's tripartite self, that which the self is not and is conscious of not being.. But sometimes you wince at how prefeminist he is (I know, I never usually care about that stuff), and he is wrong as TJ in a silver bodysock on religion, which is far, far from dead. ( )

One person's thoughts about everything. He was dead on about the function of art, though extremely biased for poetry over the other forms. ( )

A collection of aphorisms. Includes the Heraclitean fragments.