Interesting! Thanks for sharing your resources and data. Appreciated. I have one question. Why did you choose call it antilogicalism then?

My choice of the title Antilogicalism was kind of a personal thing. I actually have an old page about it here: https://antilogicalism.com/2017/06/29/antilogicalism/

wonderful! Thanks for sharing. Bless you

Understandable! I will check it out deeply.

This is really thoughtful. I've bookmarked your link and I'll take a look. This is what I love most about the internet - people generously sharing information.

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I have just spent about an hour on your link and will go back to it again as I think that it is excellent. You have put so much hard effort into it and I am very impressed.

I like lists, and am duly impressed by long ones. You have found a lot and made your findings available. Thanks!

There is a website in England, "Forgotten Books": Forgotten Books is a London-based book publisher specializing in the restoration of old books, both fiction and non-fiction. Today we have 1,271,513 books ... I've perused a small fraction of their list and downloaded a few. Many of these books were forgotten because their content was far too narrow to survive (lists of graduates from the local college or meeting minutes of obscure organizations for example). Some of these books were stale to begin with and didn't improve with age. Still, the site is worth visiting (or not, depending on one's interests).

How many of the books on your list have you read or sampled? This isn't a hostile question. I too would include Gibbons' History of the Roman Empire, even though I have only sampled it and have no intention of ever reading it. So much scholarship in Roman Empire history has been done since the late 18th century.

If you had to list 5 or 10 books that were seminal in your intellectual life, what might they include?

I just logged onto the 'Forgotten Books' website which you mentioned. I found it to be fascinating, as a way of gaining access to reading many rare books, and I have downloaded a few. It has some interesting esoteric ones. The philosophy ones are useful too. The only thing which I struggle with is working out which are dated and those which are relevant for all times. What I mean is the some aspects of psychology and philosophy seem to be based on models which are out of line with current science, whereas others seem to have ideas which are applicable universally. However, I do think that certain ideas which have a forgotten may still be worthwhile exploring.

There is a website in England, "Forgotten Books": Forgotten Books is a London-based book publisher specializing in the restoration of old books, both fiction and non-fiction — Bitter Crank

Thanks for sharing it Bitter! I going to check it out. It looks like so interesting and the list is huge :100:

Forgotten Books looks interesting. Thanks for the recommendation.

I guess I'm the type of person who likes to collect books, but never gets around to reading them all. Most of what I have read on my lists would be the "canonical" texts of Western philosophical and religious tradition. If I had to list a few of the most influential on my own worldview it would have to include certain books of the Bible, Norman Geisler, William Lane Craig, Immanuel Kant, Soren Kierkegaard, Albert Camus, Friedrich Nietzsche, G.K. Chesterton, Keiji Nishitani, and probably some of the other "existentialist" thinkers.

I have an old page here that kind of goes through my first 7-8 years of self-study: https://antilogicalism.com/my-journey/

What a cool thing to do; thanks for that! Bookmarked your site!

Very nice! Thank you.

Just a bit of an update: I spent some time putting together a new page for the bookshelf. The page contains the 50-volume set of The Sacred Books of the East: https://antilogicalism.com/primary-sources/sacred-books-of-the-east/.

I want to make a page for the Harvard Classics next.

You are putting together a fantastic site. I appreciate it, and I am sure that many others do too.

Thank you all for the kind words and feedback. I was never really sure where I was going with this website, or why. It just kind of developed over time into what it is now. If other people can find some value in it, then that's really great to hear. If anybody has feedback, recommendations, suggestions, constructive criticism, etc. I would be more than happy to listen.

I recently got the Harvard Classics page up: https://antilogicalism.com/primary-sources/harvard-classics/