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I tried to read it. I cannot understand his writing style. I really liked the oxford handbook of phenomenology, that was a fun read! I don't like that people dismiss phenomenology because it doesn't start with empiricism.

Will take you 3 years to read it lol. Its 3 volumes of 1000 pages size 10 font, per book.

I like both, but for different reasons. I like the spirit of communism when it comes to taking care of others. But I think there are some pragmatic issues that hayek gets correct, like individuals knowing best what todo with their freedoms rather than a state. It would be tough to say who I am closer to. They both have good arguments and shortcomings.

Haha. Thank yooou! I would make a very bad communist because I really enjoy profits 😅😅😅

​@IdeasInHat that's why anyone who calls themselves communist really are not.

Can you elaborate? I am curious what your take is.

@@IdeasInHat “Love is that state in which people act most decidedly as they are not.” I think love, at least the popular notion(or lack thereof) of love, is an oppressive ideal in whose name people commit acts of dangerous stupidity and atrocious elitism. People confuse love with attachment, obsession, and infatuation. Love often turns out to be a simulation in which an image of oneself falls for an image of another and vice versa.

@@RagingHamster8330 yeah, sounds like you are talking about the kind of love found in young werther. Very dangerous kinda love. But what about love as charitable interpretation? Do you think that is overrated?

@@IdeasInHat the belief that charity is different from the ersatz love found in young werther is one of the fallacies of love and a proof of how sinister it can be. How often have you heard lovers say “yes, but our love is different!”? I am not saying there is no such thing as real love, which shows itself in deeds not words. I think that as soon as we start talking about love, though, we have missed the point and worse delved into a morass of sinister deception. I think real love is very rare.

@@RagingHamster8330 charitable interpretation is more akin to what a monk would do for the poor. Whereas werthers kind of love was filled with angst, obsession, and longing. As far as I can tell, they are entirely different. You would need to explain to me how wanting to make babies with someone is the same as being forgiving and kind 😅😅😅 I would agree with Wittgenstein here, in the sense that love is a family resemblance and so there is no single definition that encapsulates all love. Love of chocolate is subjectively different than romantic love, which is yet more different than the love jesus has for his followers. These are all called "love," but there are unique qualities to each of them. And so we cannot treat them as one class that can be broadly stereotyped. That being said, I agree that love has some dangers, but the nature of the danger depends on the type of love. The danger with love of chocolate is diabetes. The danger with love of sleep is sloth. And just about everything has a danger to it. Maybe your issue is with emotions in general? Happy people behave differently than sad people, and nervous people behave differently than calm people. So, they are doing something that seemingly is not in their character, as far as I understand your worldview.

Thanks for sharing. I don't read to be intelligent or smarter, I just enjoy modeling things. The debate about polymath vs monomath is thousands of years old. So, I wont claim to have a solution here. I see the benefit in specializing as well as being a generalist. So, I just do what I find fun. Glad you watch the channel! And thanks for your honest criticism! Love the feedback. 😁😁😁

I like reading broadly as well. It makes you discover things and subjects you weren't aware of (or that were locked behind a college syllabus that wasn't yours). I'm in my twenties and consider this my 'exposition time': meaning I'll read anything that catches my interest. I'll have my entire life to go deeper ;)

I want to make one. But they are soo much work. Maybe in the future I can pay someone to moderate it for me.