Classic Texts:
Kierkegaard: Rotation of Crops: A Venture in a Theory of Social Prudence-
Crop Rotation is one of the shorter pieces within Part I of Either/Or. It's the aesthete character A's attempt to deal with boredom. A believes that boredom is the root of all evil. Though, we as the reader could start to see that boredom is in fact not a cause, but an effect.
In one of Life's great coincidences, I got a Facebook message from a friend about two hours after I finished rereading The Rotation of Crops. He said that Buddhism wasn't working for him like it once had. So, he was thinking of trying Stoicism. I responded that we should grab a beer, and that I might have some recommended reading for him.
I own the Hong translation of Either/Or. So, I read Crop Rotation from there. However, you can find some pdf versions online.
Kierkegaard: Rotation of Crops: A Venture in a Theory of Social Prudence-
Crop Rotation is one of the shorter pieces within Part I of Either/Or. It's the aesthete character A's attempt to deal with boredom. A believes that boredom is the root of all evil. Though, we as the reader could start to see that boredom is in fact not a cause, but an effect.
In one of Life's great coincidences, I got a Facebook message from a friend about two hours after I finished rereading The Rotation of Crops. He said that Buddhism wasn't working for him like it once had. So, he was thinking of trying Stoicism. I responded that we should grab a beer, and that I might have some recommended reading for him.
I own the Hong translation of Either/Or. So, I read Crop Rotation from there. However, you can find some pdf versions online.
Podcast:
In Our Time: Averroes
This work is both of a history lesson and a short a philosophical analysis. I enjoyed it a great deal. Averroes' life took place in Muslim Spain right before the Reconquista. The podcast does a good job of describing Averroes' contributions to Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Western philosophy.
Audio:
LibriVox: Either/Or
The is not a reading of Kierkegaard's Either/Or, but a reading of David F. Swenson's analysis of that work. I never get tired of trying to figure Kierkegaard out. You might.
Pop Readings:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/shortcuts/2015/jan/18/beginners-guide-voltaire-philosopher-free-speech-tolerance?CMP=share_btn_tw
https://www.vox.com/conversations/2017/4/23/15343212/9-questions-for-martha-nussbaum
Nussbaum is a talented philosopher. This is a good read.
https://www.1843magazine.com/story/a-practitioners-guide-to-hedonism
Live Event:
I went to a lecture on Simone de Beauvior which I already wrote about here.
Hopefully, this was a little better than March's.
In Our Time: Averroes
This work is both of a history lesson and a short a philosophical analysis. I enjoyed it a great deal. Averroes' life took place in Muslim Spain right before the Reconquista. The podcast does a good job of describing Averroes' contributions to Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Western philosophy.
Audio:
LibriVox: Either/Or
The is not a reading of Kierkegaard's Either/Or, but a reading of David F. Swenson's analysis of that work. I never get tired of trying to figure Kierkegaard out. You might.
Pop Readings:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/shortcuts/2015/jan/18/beginners-guide-voltaire-philosopher-free-speech-tolerance?CMP=share_btn_tw
https://www.vox.com/conversations/2017/4/23/15343212/9-questions-for-martha-nussbaum
Nussbaum is a talented philosopher. This is a good read.
https://www.1843magazine.com/story/a-practitioners-guide-to-hedonism
Live Event:
I went to a lecture on Simone de Beauvior which I already wrote about here.
Hopefully, this was a little better than March's.
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