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November 30, 2011

UPDATES 2011-11-30 - Special Birthday Edition

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  • Today (Nov. 30, 2011) is my 24th birthday.  If you want to celebrate with me, I have an Amazon Wish List or you can send digital Amazon gift cards to me at kyle@kyle-brady.com.  Thanks, in advance, to all!
  • J'han and I became engaged in mid-October - wedding details are still to be determined.
  • Taylor Nelson, my fantastic editor who's been with me since before my political and philosophical days, is now a father, thanks to the recent birth of his son.  Drop him a note of congratulations!
  • My GRE scores came back pretty decently:  Verbal 160 / 170 (86th percentile), Analytical 4.5 / 6 (72nd percentile), and Quantitative 140 / 170 (40th percentile).  Given that my future involves thought, writing, analysis, etc., these exactly fit what I need.
  • Graduate applications have all nearly been completed for a Masters program in either Political Theory or Political Philosophy.  Ones have been, or will be, sent to:  American University, NYU, CUNY, UC Riverside, Oxford, University College London, King's College London, and University of Edinburgh.
  • My reading list of late includes, in no particular order:
    • Immanuel Kant's Perpetual Peace (1795), Metaphysics of Morals (1797)
    • Freidrich Nietzsche's On the Geneology of Morality (1887)
    • Sigmund Freud's Civilization & its Discontents (1930)
    • Herbert Marcuse's An Essay on Liberation (1969)
    • Max Weber's Politics as a Vocation (1918)
    • Thucydides' On Justice, Power, and Human Nature (5th Century B.C.E.)
    • Aristotle's Politics (4th Century B.C.E.)
    • Plato's Republic (4th Century B.C.E.)
    • Aristophanes' Lysistrata (5th Century B.C.E.)
    • Mencius' Mencius (4th Century B.C.E.)
    • Cicero's On Government (1st Century B.C.E.)
    • Juergen Habermas' Student Protests, Science, and Politics (1961)
    • Michael Walzer's On Toleration (1997)
    • Milton Friedman's Free to Choose (1980) [selections]
    • Friedrich Hayek's The Constitution of Liberty (1960) [selections]
    • John Rawls' A Theory of Justice (1971) [selections]
    • Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown's A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change (2011)
    • papers:
      • Buelent Aras' "Turkey's rise in the Greater Middle East: peace-building in the periphery" (2009)
      • John Christian Laursen's "Cynicism Then and Now" (2009)
      • David Leopold's "Socialism and (the rejection of) utopia" (2007)
      • David Lovell's "Turkey in Europe: Record, Challenges and the Future" (2011)
      • John Medaris' "Social Movements and Deliberative Democratic Theory" (2004)
      • Robert Schuett's "Freudian roots of political realism: the importance of Sigmund Freud to Hans J. Morgenthau's theory of international power politics" (2007)
      • Herbert A. Simon's "Human Nature in Politics: The Dialogue of Psychology with Political Science" (1985)
      • Jonathan Wolff's "Fairness, Respect and the Egalitarian Ethos Revisited" (2010)