The bed of Procrustes : philosophical and practical aphorisms - Taleb, Nassim Nicholas, 1960- (London : Penguin Books, 2011)
Procrustes -- Preludes -- Counter narratives -- Matters ontological -- The sacred and the profane -- Chance, success, happiness, and stoicism -- Charming and less charming sucker problems -- Theseus, or, living the Paleo life -- The republic of letters -- The universal and the particular -- Fooled by randomness -- Aesthetics -- Ethics -- Robustness and fragility -- The ludic fallacy and domain dependence -- Epistemology and subtractive knowledge -- The scandal of prediction -- Being a philosopher and managing to remain one -- Economic life and other very vulgar subjects -- The sage, the weak, and the magnificent -- The implicit and the explicit -- On the varieties of love and nonlove -- The end -- Postface.
Donated by Farhana Zahir, Assistant Professor, BRAC Business School, BRAC University
Keywords: Aphorisms and apothegms; Human behavior -- Quotations, maxims, etc