Dan Yingst

I read my Eyes out, and cant read half enough neither.— The more one reads the more one sees We have to read—

[Dan Yingst @yingstdan]

@miltonappl3 Vico is must read given your project

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@antlionai @PalmerLuckey @JDVance >The Confederates unconditionally surrendered.

No they didn't

[Dan Yingst @yingstdan]

@eris_nerung @TheGr8terGood @memeticsisyphus I don't "tolerate" the fact that my neighbor prefers pancakes to waffles.

[Dan Yingst @yingstdan]

@eris_nerung @TheGr8terGood @memeticsisyphus I think he would say that Locke was correct in recognizing that the distinctions, even within Christianity, are far from superficial.

Indeed, it's their non-superficisl character that makes *toleration* necessary in the first place

[Dan Yingst @yingstdan]

@TheGr8terGood @eris_nerung @memeticsisyphus To say nothing of Muslims and atheists

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@eris_nerung @memeticsisyphus When the concept of religious tolerance was first articulated, was it understood to apply to all religions?

[Dan Yingst @yingstdan]

@GoodFaithInt @BrandonWarmke Are you really going to “both sides” Chalcedonian Orthodoxy, Transubstatiation, the Perpetual Virginity of Mary, etc?

[Dan Yingst @yingstdan]

@LandsknechtPike My wife and I visited last fall and loved it.

[Dan Yingst @yingstdan]

@miltonappl3 I'd love to get this pdf. Thank you!

[Dan Yingst @yingstdan]

@miltonappl3 Bernard didn't know the "historical context" of the Song of Songs, the idea that he had to would have been absurd. It makes complete sense that he would write with the intent to be read in the same way.

Indeed, the authors regularly make it explicit that they want this!

[Dan Yingst @yingstdan]

I didn't realize that I believed this until I saw it articulated here.

[milton @miltonappl3]

I do something so reflexively when reading classics that I've long ago stopped noticing that I do it, and I think it's something worth mentioning: I read each one for internal consistency, like a math equation which demonstrates itself. This approach has made the vast majority of the canon thoroughly enjoyable, and I think it's largely the way these authors want to be treated. It's also why I have extreme trouble understanding people who like secondary sources or who reflexively need to know about Elizabethan court drama to read Shakespeare, for example. To me, that's like trying to figure out about John von Neumann's wife in order to learn about his quantum theory.

[Dan Yingst @yingstdan]

@miltonappl3 Yes! I'm deeply grateful to UChicago's commitment to primary source-first reading, because it allowed me to recognize it in the sources themselves.

[Dan Yingst @yingstdan]

@extradeadjcb Sorry, bro. Sucks to find out this way.

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@kitten_beloved @Chris_arnade To Hawthorne: I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb....It is a strange feeling -- no hopefulness is in it, no despair. Content -- that is it; and irresponsibility; but without licentious inclination.

[Dan Yingst @yingstdan]

@Chris_arnade No one talks about Clarel because it's insanely long, weird poem

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@Chris_arnade I think reading Clarel gives a good sense of what he's grappling with

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@Cernovich My daughter absolutely loves hers. Listens constantly.

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@AlanLevinovitz Awesome

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@fstflofscholars @NateAFischer @PerfInjust I bet you have, my girl

[Dan Yingst @yingstdan]

@fstflofscholars @NateAFischer @PerfInjust That already happened. What does it say about you that you missed it?