@@larter_larter Yeah, Humboldt inspired a lot of people. Didn't occur to me to buy his writings, but not a bad idea. Haha. Will add them to my amazon cart.
A book that was a suprise to me recently was Hold Onto Your Kids, by Neufeld and Mate. It is a parenting book, but it turned out to explore something much more fundamental about our psychological development and contemporary culture. It's all about attachment during the development and maturation process which humans need as much as they need food. It also explores how in contemporary culture, peer attachment are becoming more dominant than parent-child attachments. Peer culture are inherently uncertain, with betrail of primary attachment being much more prevalent. This leads to psychological maturation process to get stuck essentially. This book is not a must of course, but in any case it is really interesting, even for those who do not have kids. It can reveal some interesting things about your own past. And not only this aspect of psychological development seems neglected, it is as if the whole scientific community has adopted the completely opposite stance on it, making things much worse.
After you read Charles Darwin, read David Berlinski. You won’t regret it. (The Deniable Darwin or The Devils Delusion) he’s not religious btw…he’s a prominent mathematician who’s also a great writer.
Thucydides' Peloponnesian War, probably "The Landmark Thuycidides." and maybe J.M. Roberts' Penguin History of the World." He does have a condensed version.
