Nathan

22 springs. Reading books, jogging and lifting weights.

[Nathan @nathan193293]

@JaycelAdkins Wow

[Nathan @nathan193293]

@SiobhanV74297 @black_square93 @Caol_MacCormaic Maybe but how can a middle age man not be able to name Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Marx or Rawls ? This is basic education.

[Nathan @nathan193293]

@JaycelAdkins Looks like something the Beatles would have put on an album cover. Hahaha I’m not so sure that I like it

[Nathan @nathan193293]

@DawsonSWilliams IVe not read much Heidegger. Only this one, the first part of being and time, the history of the concept of time and ontology the hermeneutics of facticity.

I still have a lot to read by him it’s exciting.

[Nathan @nathan193293]

@JaycelAdkins Has been*

I’m also learning it before Latin. More author I’m interested to read wrote in Greek.

[Nathan @nathan193293]

@JaycelAdkins Im also learning Greek ! Btw I didn’t know you were 48, idk why I pictured you in your thirties.
Learning Greek as been very fun. It feels great for the soul

[Nathan @nathan193293]

It’s been sixteen days where I’ve been studying Attic Greek, at least five mins a day. I usually end up doing 20-30 mins.
I’m nearing the end of chapter 1 of my book and I must say it’s impressive how fun it is and it feels good. I usually do it after lifting too.

[Nathan @nathan193293]

@aufgehenderRest @ChrisWickNews This is my perspective as a québécois.

[Nathan @nathan193293]

@aufgehenderRest @ChrisWickNews His economy for better and worse is almost warlike. I do understand what pushed him to make such decisions, but ultimately the environment will pay. And I’m not convinced that he puts anywhere near the effort needed in education. I am nowhere near wise enough to comment on policy

[Nathan @nathan193293]

@PAHoyeck Where am I ? Have you been cheating on me with those strangers ?

I thought we had Sidgwick, Utilitarianism and Quebec in common.
Come on PA, tu dois faire mieux #cœurbrisé

[Nathan @nathan193293]

@iHardned @JaycelAdkins This is a better exposition of your thought.

Initially I simply meant that some secondary literature is representing the work accurately and some distorts it in a myriad of ways. Some secondary literature is closer to « Greatness » than others. It is my thought.

[Nathan @nathan193293]

@JaycelAdkins @iHardned Lowkey ahahah you cooked. This guy didn’t get what I was saying. Roman Barthes and Foucault wrote on the death of the author, and even though I don’t agree with them, they do cover this idea of “authors means” skillfully.

[Nathan @nathan193293]

@JaycelAdkins I need tips how do you not break them? They give me such bad anxieties… I hate how almost every academic paperback is now 120$ CAN and it’s this type of books. How do you handle them in your wiseness ?

[Nathan @nathan193293]

@JaycelAdkins We are the same. They are so overpriced too. They also break pretty easy to break… I legit prefer paperbacks to those atrocities.

[Nathan @nathan193293]

@diamondroar321 What’s depressing about it ?

[Nathan @nathan193293]

If I could only read 10 authors for the rest of my life

1. Plato
2. Aristotle
3. Xenophon
4. Nietzsche
5. Shakespeare
6. Heidegger
7. Emerson
8. Thoreau
9. Sidgwick
10. Zhu Xi

[Joshua D Phillips @JoshPhillipsPhD]

If I could only read 10 authors for the rest of my life

1. Homer
2. Virgil
3. Sophocles
4. Shakespeare
5. KJV Bible (I know, not an author. But whatever)
6. Tolstoy
7. Dostoevsky
8. Hemingway
9. Fitzgerald
10. Twain

[Nathan @nathan193293]

@Xaviers_brain Substantially. He is the great commentator and editor of the Four Books of Confucianism. His linguistic skill and logical acumen is without par. He redefined the reception of the eastern “canon”. His commentary makes those texts so much more intelligible.

[Nathan @nathan193293]

@Solzi_Sez Sometimes it’s very confusing. I have a lot of troubles understanding the depths of thinkers like Nishida and Nishitani.

Very Heideggerian versus a more practical yet also metaphysical (or natural) philosophy such as Confucianism. Yet in my western mind, they work together