Snyder, George L Snyder, Lenore Snyder, God, ethics, morals, religion

The Elephant Speaks
One Man’s Elephant book II

in Recognition




 

∙          The Holy Bible           (five different versions)

 

∙          The Qur’an (Koran)

 

∙          The Bhagavad-Gita

 

∙          The Völuspá

 

∙          The Epic of Gilgamish

 

∙          The Code of Hammurabi

 

∙          The Cost of Discipleship

                        Dietrich Bonhöffer

 

∙          Analects

                        Confucius ~551 - ~479 BC

Confucius sought order and peace through reverence of custom, concern with human society, and the practice of perfect virtue.

 

∙          Five Great Dialogues

            Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Symposium, Republic

                        Plato 427 - 347 BC

Student of Socrates

 

∙          Nicomachean Ethics

                        Aristotle 384 - 322 BC

Student of Plato

 

∙          Meditations

                        Marcus Aurelius 121 - 180 AD

Emperor of the Roman Empire 161 - 180 AD

 

∙          Confessions

                        Augustine 354 - 430 AD

Bishop of Hippo Regius - Philosopher/Theologian

 

∙          A Brief History of Time

∙          The Universe in a Nutshell

                        Stephen Hawking b.8 Jan 1942 -

            Theoretical Physicist, Professor of Mathematics

            Oxford University, Cambridge University

Stephen Hawking has made it easier for me to get an idea of the scale of the Universe. His writing assisted in my realization that God is even greater than I can imagine.


∙          Mohammad


∙          Ahmad ben Ahmad


∙          Thomas Aquinas

 

∙          The Buddha

 

∙          Mohandas Gandhi

 

∙          and many others




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