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  1. Congrats on 200k subs! Also this is super neat and very in depth. Great job man!
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  2. Great recommendations, I read The Fifth Head of Cerberus from Wolfe and it is similar to BoTNS in that it looks like a fantasy setting but it's in truth Sci Fi and not everything is explained and is also dream like. I can't wait to start Shadow of the Torturer, it's been on my TBR (and on my shelves) for too long :D.
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  3. The king is back!
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  4. Thank you for everything you do!!
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  5. This was a really great book. If I ever go back to get my PhD, this will be my go-to. Thanks, Jared, for this.
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  6. Hey Jared, it's been a long time since our undergraduate Philosophy Circle days. It's neat to see how we both ended up with similar views of Philosophy as a way of life and a focus on meta cognition. Love your content and what you're putting out into the universe. Also sorry for burning your arm that night at Jackie O's. I still feel bad about that :( -sc
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  7. Thank you for another great video. And your substack is worth every penny and more.
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  8. I read Anathem because of your suggestion. Although it took me three weeks and wasn't the easiest read, I really enjoyed and got a whole lot out of it. Currently reading The Dispossessed and it's already one of my favorites. Your recommendations seem to be particularly useful to me and I'm grateful for them.
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  9. Dude. I seriously enjoy all of your content. Been a fan for about 4 months now. Love watching this thing grow. Thank you for what you do.
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  10. Thanks!
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  11. Hey Jared, please keep up the good work! I don't really comment that often, but recently discovered your channel and found your down-to-earth approach really relatable and refreshing. You've gotten me back into reading a bunch, which was hard before. Just wanted to show my appreciation.
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  12. Personally, this is such great content! After I spend the first half of 2023 with Dostoevsky and Nietzsche. I am planning to read Plato and Descartes. To somehow battle the Ancient and Modern "beginner" philosophical journey. Is this also a viable option to be a content in the future? Comparative Philosophy/Philosopher? I would love to see how philosophy evolves from the Ancient to Medieval To Modern eras.
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  13. Hi Jared , I watched your 'philosophy for beginners' video , in that video u said that "a beginner who is gonna read slowly through philosophy books for say a year would be different person by the end of that process" , this inspired me to read great books and read them slowly and , I have started to slowly read "Bhagwat Geeta" spirituo/philosophical text , I'm gonna read it slowly and deeply for first 4 months of 2023 and hopefully I will be a better person by the end of the process. Thanks for the inspiration. Peace. (And I don't use pen in my books at all it's murder for me , I note down the important page numbers , and I do reread books , I think a book is like onion and as you read and reread you discover multiple layers to a text.)
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  14. I loved this, despite never having seen the show or read the books! Super interesting.
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  15. You have such a calming voice :) Great video.
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  16. Now that Michael Sugrue isn’t around anymore, this has become my favourite channel surrounding philosophy
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  17. I truly enjoyed watching this video. It was a great and thoughtful reflection about reading better. Way to go!
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  18. Hey, I just want to say that your channel has inspired me a lot as I pursue my degree in Philosophy. Love the videos!
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  19. Loved this video and would love to see a new wave science fiction video!
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  20. Thanks for your advice. We hope to see more content like this from you.
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  21. To be honest, I only noticed because I made the same mistake when I posted a review on my website.
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  22. Too long.
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  23. Nothing beats a nice Blackwing on some smooth paper to light up the inspiration!!! 🥰📜🖋️
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  24. Love seeing the scifi content. Can I add to your radar: Solaris/Lem Diaspora/Egan (ai not in a human body..existing as data on a hardrive.. hard to beat) The Thing Itself/Adam Roberts (Kant's transcendental realism + SETI)... Also love children of time and snow crash etc. I felt Ancillary Justice, while not as great as Left Hand of Darkness, accomplished more in a philosophical approach to gender and language than Left Hand did...
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  25. Journaling for self improvement is life changing in many ways. Thanks for this video.
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  26. Great books as friends. Love this. Also spot on the productivity and efficiency culture is killing us on the inside. Well done.
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  27. Great Vid Jared. Im starting Suneater next month! I have a suggestion for scif-fi. It's called Blindsight by Peter Watts. It's hard Sci-Fi first contact with the main theme being consciousness, and he gets deep into it. I think you'd really enjoy it.
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  28. I really liked your soul food analogy, and the friendships with good books
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  29. Read a few essays by Hume and his writing style was just a breath of fresh air.. such a clear thinker. think ima pick up treatise on human nature now
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  30. Luffy is acting like an anarchist: act as if you are already free.
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  31. Great video and reminder to thoughtfully write about what we read. Just curiously, how many books do you read at a time? For example, do you have two or three that you read together, or do you only read one book at a time and really focus on that book?
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  32. Thanks for the video Jared! I've really been trying to get a journaling habit going in 2023 and haven't really known where to start so this helps a lot.
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  33. Hey Jared. What a great video. I especially like the fact that you included Nietzsche’s "The Gay Science" in your list. I just recently finished that book and you're absolutely correct that it’s a great work. What I admire about Nietzsche’s books is that it often shatters our comfortable and self-assured convictions (which we think are self-evident). And you're correct that his philosophy is actually quite upbeat and positive. Thank you also for the suggestions you made on Boethius. I intend to read that. Although I'm not a theist, I deeply admire Kierkegaard who was a devout Christian. I am surprised "Fear and Trembling" or "Either/Or" did not make your list, but that's OK. 😊 By the way, I totally agree with what you said in this video about utilitarianism and kantianism. Personally, I'm not a follower of virtue ethics but I am fascinated by Stoics like Marcus Aurelius and his Meditations (which I love). I'm sure you've covered him as well at some point. Many thanks again for your passion and work. Keep it going. Cheers.
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  34. My comment is gonna look a bit odd I think, because your channel is more about philosophy. But I wanna thank you a lot because I began watching your videos with one on journaling a couple of weeks ago, and I had been struggling a lot with dysphoria. So since I didn't know what to write about, that's what I wrote about, and writing about it and being able to put my feelings down on paper and being able to analyze it thoroughly and making connections with past events (which I couldn't do in my head) helped me tremendously, and every day I try to understand it more and understanding myself as well. Even though that's not the purpose of your channel and not the purpose of your video, I just can't express enough how important your video was to me.
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  35. I've been a huge Audible fan since 1999, when I had to use their (terrible) Windows-only app to side-load an MP3 to my (extremely primitive) Rio MP3 player. I listen to almost all of my fiction on Audible, sometimes switching between the audio and Kindle/printed version. (I have a long list of reasons I usually prefer the audio version of fiction that I won't enumerate.) I listen when my cognitive overhead is relatively low: walking to or from the train, cooking, and doing low-effort digital chores. I don't feel the experience suffers from multitasking, though I have a few tricks to help myself recover quickly if my attention shifts away while listening. And as a bonus, the act of listening keeps me away from my screen. When it comes to poetry, plays, and all non-fiction, I strongly prefer a printed book or the Kindle version. I've also had a Kindle for about a decade, and I like it a lot. I especially like how easy it is to grab highlights via a service like Readwise (or even Kindle's export function). But lately, I've realized that the absence of dimensionality makes me a bit anxious. It's hard to tell how much is left in a chapter or section, so I feel disoriented. I can tell the Kindle to tell me, but it somehow feels just weird. I don't plan to give it up, but I feel a growing tug toward printed books. For non-fiction, especially science non-fiction, I have to read printed books, mainly because they often have visuals that don't work well on Kindle and aren't available in the audio version (except maybe as a PDF appendix).
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  36. I admire the leveheadedness with which you seem to be approaching this. When difficult news lands in my lap, I try to remember that it's only in those moments I truly have the opportunity to test my strength, resilience, and ability to maintain perspective in the face of challenge. You do not yet know how things will turn out, but if you remain determined to face what comes with integrity and intelligence, as I am sure you will, you'll be proud of how you conducted yourself and it'll make you a stronger person. I hope things fall into place for you, financially and professionally, as I think you add a lot of value to discussions of philosophy, books, etc. on YouTube and beyond.
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  37. Although the Mad Farmer Poems may not be a "Western Classic" I think most of us don't mind the odd "outside the canon" recommendations. Perhaps what makes the classics, and your channel, so interesting is the depth of their inquiry into life and reality and so I'm sure we all appreciate hearing your thoughts on books that you consider worthwhile even if they aren't necessarily classics.
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  38. Love that perspective of anyone who has a secondary education and is willing to put in the work can read and understand these complex works
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  39. Im from Spain and i am watching your videos to acquire more vocabulary in English. Thank you!
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  40. Banger. Also I've been reading the Nichomanean Ethics because of you haha
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  41. How I journal: I do a morning page everyday where I remind my self of certain things and a short update of what happened yesterday And anything else i do when needed( when i have some thoughts or want to comprehend my feelings etc) this i don’t do everyday, only when needed
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  42. My new self-control endeavor is to only buy one of Jared’s recommended books at a time and to finish one between purchases. I better get at it because I bought one of his suggested reads last week.
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  43. 1) Since you have Dune on here I will endorse this list (even with the downplay of its greatness) 2) Planning to read Canticle this year 3) Thanks for this, I have added a handful to my TBR list!
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  44. Thank you, Jared. Have a Blessed Easter!
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  45. My DRM-free Calibre ePub collection is approaching a thousand titles. I’m very lucky to have a public library using the ePub format— everyone should demand their elected leaders support ePub. Publishers are spending enormous sums to trick politicians into backing closed-loop DRM ecosystems (like the Libby phone app, *cough cough*). Informed citizens must fight back.
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  46. Wow, YouTube's algorithm finally doing a good job! Lovely video!
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  47. When I read the statement, "It should not replace or disrupt anything good that already exist...", I remember Aristotle in proposing happiness as humanity's greatest pursuit; happiness is attained by doing good, and goodness is attained through fulfilling one's purpose (i.e. Telos / design or function). At the end of this video, I contemplated the thought that a computer/laptop or pencil and pen must serve as an assistant to the writer to fulfill their thinking roles in which they stemmed the concept of being a good writer and resulted in the state of happiness or contentment in their creative endeavor. Either of the two means, what is indispensable is the fulfillment of one's Telos.
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  48. ¡Gracias!
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  49. This is fantastic. I too have been journaling since high school. But effectively utilizing and organizing all that data is its own skillset. Ive been meaning to make a video on that topic myself. Great video!
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  50. I have been waiting for this content for so long. Thank you for these book recommendations. In 2024, I will fill my TBR bucket list with philosophy and psychology books. May I quickly ask, in reading philosophical books, would you recommend reading a summary of philosophers' works in one book rather than their books? For example, reading Bertrand Russel's A History Of Western Philosophy instead of reading individual books by Plato, Aristole, and others?
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