5 Works of Philosophy You Can Read in A Day
Added 2024-07-18 10:20:20 +0000 UTCHello my lovely Patrons,
I am very sorry for not being more active on here - I have recently had to move house twice and as a result life became a whirlwind. But I am all settled now and hope to post these more casual videos around once per week.
I often get asked for book recommendations, and I also know that pretty much everyone is short on time. So I figured the best of both worlds would be to talk about some works of philosophy that are brilliant and insightful, but also mercifully brief.
Let me know what else you would like me to cover, and I'll see you all soon.
Have a fantastic day!
Joe :)
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Also I dont believe the average Joe can get through The Stranger in a day. It is as intense as it is profound. Camus was quite the tortured soul. no wonder he was able to come up w/fictional characters a lot whom he met or observed in his real life, having read his notebooks on a train trip through the old country. Unlike the brilliant Voltaire, my personal fave, who was sweetness and light in comparison. he was able to break things down like in his 84 page novella Candide, which he did with a beatific dry whit gifted by the muses. The book is very humorous as well... I need to reread it.
tigerlily
2024-09-23 19:36:31 +0000 UTCThe nihilists are so morose but many died young or early middle age like Kierkegaard. No wonder they were so depressed! I think if you knew the end was near at say 25 you may feel the same way too!
tigerlily
2024-09-23 19:23:52 +0000 UTCOh Goddess Psyche help my conscious mind remember what i was writing on this comments section. Its vanished w/o a trace into the ether as i wrote! I was quite sleepy and take medication for my epilepsy proven to wipe gaba receptors from the brain to 'quiet' it down...'-( warning my thoughts may be a tad disjointed. What fence are you on personally regarding your main topic of philosophical questions/statements? I've noticed your propensity to focus a lot on nihilism and its proponents. Like Nietzsche the big daddy of Nihilism and product of his own time, Kafka and of course Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky to some extent his books are dangerously deep waters to dive into. Your YT channel/Lecture is so in depth and broad like the mouth of the river Thames, i feel i need footnotes to keep up. or a guide at least to digest/comprehend the meaning, I get lost behind your words. Message and moral of the story is.....? you're like the mad hatter version of Julian sands in a Room with a View. Dear AL Camus was an exception to some extent he believed in life's absurdities. On that i agree, But i dont concur life lacks all meaning. I only discovered your channel recently. Not sure if you've covered philosophers of the enlightenment, Idealism or even Transcendentalism. Like Plato, Rosseau, Emerson, Spinoza or Thoreau whose mentor was emerson. They lived in a tiny town called concord, mass. Thoreau was a strange guy, he went over in the woods one day and built a tiny log cabin with stone fireplace for warmth in the harsh winters where he stayed for two years plus.
tigerlily
2024-09-23 19:20:52 +0000 UTCI've only read "The Stranger", but at your recommendation, will take a look at the others. Thanks for the list. The relaxed style is great.
Michael
2024-07-19 00:04:30 +0000 UTCGreat list. I haven't read any of them. I'll have to get on that.
Sam
2024-07-18 18:36:32 +0000 UTCGreat list, I immediately knew The Stranger was going to be on it, quite amazing how such a short book packs so much within itself. And by all means make that video on Frege, I never even heard of him until now but your recommendation got me to look him up and I'm already fascinated, would make a great video.
the goose
2024-07-18 15:12:10 +0000 UTC
