Sign in with Facebook
Alex Feinberg
https://www.goodreads.com/strlen
“subjective experience is explainable, and its successful explanation is of ethical relevance because it makes us wiser, freer, and happier. Not only does this conviction guide Spinoza’s major philosophical decisions, it also explains the lasting appeal of his chief work,”
― The Explainability of Experience: Realism and Subjectivity in Spinoza's Theory of the Human Mind
― The Explainability of Experience: Realism and Subjectivity in Spinoza's Theory of the Human Mind
“the American physician George M. Beard introduced the term ‘neurasthenia’ to the medical lexicon, referring to feelings of profound nervous exhaustion and anxiety that were becoming an epidemic in the industrialized cities of Germany, England, and the United States.”
― Existentialism: An Introduction
― Existentialism: An Introduction
“In an effort to minimize evaporation, Central Asians came to dig these channels deeper and deeper and thus reduce the area exposed to the sun. They also lined them to prevent loss through seepage—both of these being techniques that modern Soviet engineers ignored, with disastrous consequences.”
― Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
― Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
“For my part, what I call philosophy is systematic, reflective thinking on life.”
― A Short History of Chinese Philosophy
― A Short History of Chinese Philosophy
“Among other things, this chapter represents a valiant although self-consciously inadequate attempt to do what Wittgenstein says cannot be done. According to Wittgenstein, one cannot predicate the whole. That is, one cannot say that the totality of things is either large or small if there is nothing beyond it with which to compare.”
― Dao De Jing: A Philosophical Translation
― Dao De Jing: A Philosophical Translation
Alex’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Alex’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
394 books
|
16 friends
1,230 books
|
30 friends
857 books
|
41 friends
1,897 books
|
129 friends
232 books
|
194 friends
347 books
|
67 friends
117 books
|
10 friends
61 books
|
10 friends
More friends…
Polls voted on by Alex
Lists liked by Alex
