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Originally Posted by Esaias
Not for the faint-hearted, for sure.
I found Kant boring beyond my tolerance level.
Locke was much more interesting.
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With Nietzsche, it was hard to know if it was the translation (Walter Kaufman) or the ideas, or just the level of my 18-19 year old maturity and intelligence, but I never could break through with him and get much out of his work.
At some point I think I will work my way backward in time to see the ideas that helped to shape Western thinking. I have a book called
The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View by Richard Tarnas that does a good job of summing up a few thousand years of the historical development of Western thinking, from Ancient Greece to the 1950's.
I've recently purchased Ben Shapiro's
The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great which seems to be a much more accessible, lighter version of Tarnas. I started reading it, but found myself too deeply involved with too many books and couldn't give them all their due, so stopped to focus on Jung and Bloom for now.
I am very curious to read Hobbes'
Leviathin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pa...e_Western_Mind
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