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David Hume: Treatise on Human Nature (Abridged)

Forgot to update the progress, but I finished Plato's "Defence of Socrates" last night. It was actually pretty readable and interesting to my surprise.

Just finished an abridgement of "A Theory of Justice" by John Rawls. Talks out of his ass the whole time. He thinks that if you strip people of most identity the "original position" of society can be found. But this leaves everyone lacking humanity and individuality, the dynamics which actually birth society! Besides, there was no meeting to discuss how society should be. It just happened. And Justice is a latecomer!

Just finished an abridgement of Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations". It feels like Americans who are "economically conservative" don't actually realize what Smith argued for in the last 40% of this...

Just wrapped up an excellent, though abridged essay by John Stuart Mill advocating for women's rights from the same time period that the United States was having a war over slavery. "On the Subjection of Women" is well spoken with a wonderfully witty ending that I hope shut up every 19th century misogynist who read it.

Just finished Charles Taylor's fascinating essay titled "Atomism".

Just finished an abridgement of Hegel's "The Philosophy of Right". Interesting, but not too contemporarily compelling.

Just finished an abridgement of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "Discourse on the Origin of Inequality". His speculation on the formation of class based inequality is interesting, but his ideas on early society formation are used to explain why certain civilizations are still "savage" and I really don't vibe with that.

Just finished Virginia Held's absolutely FANTASTIC essay "Non Contractual Society: A Feminist View"

Just finished an abridged transcription of Michel Foucault's "Power/Knowledge" lectures.

Just finished a heavily abridged yet still entirely tedious, stupid and poorly written version of Robert Nozick's "Anarchy, State, and Utopia". God it's so bad.