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📚 Read Slowly - Take Notes - Apply the Ideas​

Why Philosophers are Weird (And Wonderful)

Hello Reader,

I’m pleased to report that philosophy is not dead. It did not go the way of the Dodo with the death of Socrates, Nietzsche, or Foucault.

We have living and breathing philosophers today, still writing and pondering the mishaps of our nutty world. One of those living philosophers, Dr. Michael Huemer, points out in his book Knowledge, Reality and Value, that “Philosophy may be the only field of study in which a major part of the discourse is arguing about whether the things we’re studying even exist. Epistemologists are supposed to study knowledge, but we spend a good deal of our time talking about whether there is knowledge to begin with. Scientists don’t do that – e.g., biologists don’t spend their time arguing whether there is any life” (99).

That quote makes me smile. It’s why philosophers are weird, and at the same time fantastic. I love that there’s a group of people out there debating the origin of things, searching for proof, questioning existence, and most importantly questioning knowledge itself.

Until , read slowly – take notes – apply the ideas.

-Eddy

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Book Recommendation

Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder

Since my message this week was on philosophy, Sophie's World is the perfect book recommendation.

When I first started reading in this genre (Is philosophy a genre? Who knows anymore?), I would find myself standing in the philosophy section of a Barnes and Noble holding a book by Nietzsche or Heidegger while going cross-eyed. I wanted to chew on their ideas, but I couldn't understand a word of their writing.

Sophie's world covers many of the big ideas in philosophy in a fictional format. It's from the perspective of a teenage girl who ponders some of life's most challenging questions after receiving mysterious letters in the mail.

If you've ever wanted to learn some Plato or Descartes without getting stuck in the mud, then give Sophie's World a chance. I think you'll love it.

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Books Make You a Better Thinker | EP 73

I’ve always found that reading helps me slow down enough to actually think. In this episode, I’ll share why I believe that reading tough books makes us better thinkers, not by giving us all the answers, but by making us work for them. I’ll also walk through how I use writing to process and refine the ideas I pick up from books.

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