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What do Aristotle, Carl von Clausewitz, and John Dewey have in common? They're all better reading than the news right now, and they all stress the importance of *prudent action.*
# Links for the Curious
- Action and Inquiry in Dewey’s Philosophy (Rogers, M. L., 2007) - jstor.org/stable/40321175
- Critical theory: selected essays (Horkheimer, M., 2002) -
- Experience and Nature (Dewey, J., 1958) - https://ddong.narod.ru/deweyen3/txt02.htm
- How We Think (Dewey, J., 1910) - gutenberg.org/files/37423/37423-h/37423-h.htm
- Hume Texts Online (Hume, D., 1777) - davidhume.org/texts/e/1
- On war (Clausewitz, C. von, 1831) -
- One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society (Marcuse, H., 2013) - taylorfrancis.com/books/9780203995211
- Performing phronesis : On the way to engaged judgment (Shotter, J. & Tsoukas, H., 2014) - journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1350507614541196
- Phronesis as professional knowledge: practical wisdom in the professions , 2012) -
- Socratic and Platonic Political Philosophy: Practicing a Politics of Reading (Long, C., 2014) - cambridge.org/9781107040359
- The Internet Classics Archive | Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle (Aristotle, 350AD) - https://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/nicomachaen.6.vi.html
- The later works, 1925-1953 (Dewey, J., 1981) - archive.org/details/johndewey15john
- Theses On Feuerbach by Karl Marx (Marx, K., 1845) - marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/index.htm
What do Aristotle, Carl von Clausewitz, and John Dewey have in common? They're all better reading than the news right now, and they all stress the importance of *prudent action.*
# Links for the Curious
- Action and Inquiry in Dewey’s Philosophy (Rogers, M. L., 2007) - jstor.org/stable/40321175
- Critical theory: selected essays (Horkheimer, M., 2002) -
- Experience and Nature (Dewey, J., 1958) - https://ddong.narod.ru/deweyen3/txt02.htm
- How We Think (Dewey, J., 1910) - gutenberg.org/files/37423/37423-h/37423-h.htm
- Hume Texts Online (Hume, D., 1777) - davidhume.org/texts/e/1
- On war (Clausewitz, C. von, 1831) -
- One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society (Marcuse, H., 2013) - taylorfrancis.com/books/9780203995211
- Performing phronesis : On the way to engaged judgment (Shotter, J. & Tsoukas, H., 2014) - journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1350507614541196
- Phronesis as professional knowledge: practical wisdom in the professions , 2012) -
- Socratic and Platonic Political Philosophy: Practicing a Politics of Reading (Long, C., 2014) - cambridge.org/9781107040359
- The Internet Classics Archive | Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle (Aristotle, 350AD) - https://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/nicomachaen.6.vi.html
- The later works, 1925-1953 (Dewey, J., 1981) - archive.org/details/johndewey15john
- Theses On Feuerbach by Karl Marx (Marx, K., 1845) - marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/index.htm









![257. Orality & Literacy
Our mental landscape is irrevocably bound up in variations of 26 characters, but were historical exceptions.
- Links for the Curious -
1. Dissemination (J. Derrida, 1972) - http://archive.org/details/derrida-dissemination
2. List of languages by first written account - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_languages_by_first_written_account&oldid=1266554494
3. Literacy (Roser, M. & Ortiz-Ospina, E., 2018) - https://ourworldindata.org/literacy
4. Literacy in Traditional Societies (Goody, J., 1975)
5. Orality and literacy: the technologizing of the word (Ong, W. J., 2012)
6. Silent reading - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Silent_reading&oldid=1258004457
7. The Consequences of Literacy (Goody, J. & Watt, I., 1963) - http://www.jstor.org/stable/177651
8. Phaedrus (Plato, 360BC) - https://classics.mit.edu/Plato/phaedrus.html
9. The Power of Names (Graham, L., 2011) - http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14746700.2011.547020
10. The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling (Chiang, T., 2013)
11. ‘There’s been a genuine vibe shift and it is no longer “cool” to be—’ You bolt awake. It is 2600 BC in holy Sumer. You are a scribe lately experimenting with rotating pictograms into an abstract, repeatable, recombinant logosyllabary. Your work, all of it, must be destroyed. (Jacob Bacharach [@jakebackpack], 2025) - https://x.com/jakebackpack/status/1878559969735573709
12. Word And Object, Quine (Von Quine, 1977) - http://archive.org/details/word-and-object-quine
13. Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First 2,000 Years (Standage, T., 2013)
14. Literacy acquisition facilitates inversion effects for faces with full-, low-, and high-spatial frequency: evidence from illiterate and literate adults (Yang et al, 2023) (Thanks Ripple_Echo!) 257. Orality & Literacy](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/N7Q4yU719FA/mqdefault.jpg)
