nonfiction books I enjoyed reading

[@IdeasInHat]

which books did you enjoy reading?

[@dkeeks]

Theology, Philosophy, Fantasy

[@ananyasaikia6784]

1. Saving Normal by Allen Frances 2. Groowing up human : The evolution of childhood by Brenna Hassett (a bioarcheologist)

[@IdeasInHat]

@@ananyasaikia6784 that second one seems interesting, I will look it up.

[@bn8418]

Related to the topic of empiricism / pragmatism & consciousness... I enjoyed and recommend 'The Marriage of Sense and Soul' by Ken Wilber. Im curious to hear your thoughts on that book or his 'Brief History of Everything'' by same author. Thank you for your great videos / recommendations by the way!

[@IdeasInHat]

@@bn8418 I will look these both up. I think I have seen the history of everything in the bookstore a few times now.

[@Ipod2000Z]

decoding jung´s metaphysics by bernardo kastrup. have not read it myself yet, but it could be something to your interest.

[@anjitnarwal6676]

I am reading Metaphors We Live by and The Weirdest People in the World. Great books. I recently read Awe by Dacher Keltner, which was awesome.

[@IdeasInHat]

I loved metaphors. I bought both authors other books. Lakoff is a pretty interesting writer.

[@dkeeks]

5:57 respectfully, what strong opinions of topics are you referring too? Just to clarify because I don’t know.

[@IdeasInHat]

He believes, for instance, that emotions are largely genetic; that adopted children are likely to suffer more abuse from their parents since they are not genetically related; that wars had higher per capita deaths earlier in history than today; that communism failed and had killed millions of people. Etc etc. Soo many, haha. He even wrote an article saying Lakoffs notion of embodied cognition was a rejection of Truth. I could go on.

[@dkeeks]

@@IdeasInHat thank you for sharing, I’ll investigate this further for my own knowledge.

[@IdeasInHat]

@@dkeeks check out better angels of our nature, and the blank slate. Those are two really good books of his!

[@dkeeks]

@@IdeasInHat I did enjoy his End of Enlightenment book and Rationality

[@Lee-kf9tq]

​@@IdeasInHat communism did kill millions of people. Millions by the nazis, tens of millions in soviet Russia and I don't even know about the number under Mao. That's not a belief, those are facts.

[@NoeHernandezPe767]

4:31 wait, “he”? Edith Hamilton a “he”? I feel you’re way too accustomed to male authors, even to the point that again you referred to Edith Hamilton as a he around 5:26

[@IdeasInHat]

What do you mean by "way too accustomed"? And yeah, most of the books I own are written by males, but not because I go out trying to buy books written by males. So, I will just unconsciously default to authors being male. Similarly, almost all my law and linguistics books are written by Jewish authors: Pinker, Chomsky, Lakoff, HLA Hart, Dworkin, Barnett, etc etc. But I don't go out of my way to buy non-Jewish authors on the topic. I actually don't care about the authors pretty much at all. I will actually put a book down if there is too much academic narcissism. If I buy a book on neuroscience, I don't want to hear about your personal life.

[@mongolianqwerty123]

@@IdeasInHat I would suggest it might be worthwhile to venture outside of Jewish thinking on Law in order to gain wider perspective on the subject. Carl Schmitt's juridical thinking is clearly at odds with Law developed from Hebraic tradition, for example

[@IdeasInHat]

@@mongolianqwerty123 Barnett is an American contract law professor. He's not writing from the perspective of Judaism. He just happens to be jewish.

[@mongolianqwerty123]

@@IdeasInHat Right, but it still behooves us to read thinkers who don't all belong to the same ethno-religious group on a given subject. Even if ones race or faith or class has no overt bearing on ones argument, it may still inform it peripherally. Secular law was born out of religious law, after all

[@IdeasInHat]

@@mongolianqwerty123 If this was about cultural philosophy, then yes. But American contract law has axioms, cases, and rules. So whether a jew or non-jew tells me 1+1=2 doesn't matter. I don't think being a jew biases your opinion on case law. I understand how culture, not ethnicity, can influence beliefs on topics like ethics or religion. But I don't see how it matters when you are communicating a fact.

[@bunnygirlerika9489]

And now I'm probably gonna buy righteous mind on my next book haul, so thanks once again for encouraging my book and reading additcion lol. What would be a good Steven Pinker book to start with?

[@IdeasInHat]

I really liked his blank slate, but better angels of our nature is also dope. Either of those would be a good start.