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One of Kant’s greatest readers, Cassirer, understanding Rousseau through his greatest reader, Kant

I would be surprised if a single person were ever convinced by any of these arguments (the failure of analytic philosophy, or of Man?)

When I first took on the Phenomenology (perhaps 4 years ago), I read no secondaries. When I first took a graduate seminar on it (2 years ago), I got a heavy dose of Pittsburghian commentaries. Now, as I lead(?) a reading group on it, I plan to begin with Heidegger's commentary and see where the long, winding road takes me.

The most important work of philosophy since the Science of Logic

Love English prag

Introduction down. Seems like McGowan's project here is something of a synthesis of right and left-Hegelianism as he sees the role of God and State in Hegel's thought to be necessary in furthering the project through the contradictions that they give rise to. McGowan characterizes the sort of dialectical process Hegel follows as the form of though which is why we need contradiction to get anywhere.

Because of space limits I'm going to briefly sketch what I take deep/true friendships to be thus far:

1. Involve a mutual trust
2. Involve a shared history
3. Involve an interest in the person as a whole, not their individual characteristics
4. Involve an ability to share amongst each other regarding deep and meaningful aspects of one's life as well as challenge or support each other regarding these things

Chapter four mostly focuses on his characterizations of different kinds of friendships - ones that bring pleasure, further our projects or are true. The first is related to the figure of the consumer, the second the figure of the entrepreneur and the last unrelated to either.

True friendships are characterized by a couple things - trust, a shared history, insensitivity to change and acknowledgement of these things

In chapter three, May uses the concept of figures from Foucault to attempt to define the figures of neoliberalism - the consumer and the entrepreneur. The consumer is a atomized person focused only on what brings gratification now. The entrepreneur in the atomized person focused only on what will bring the biggest return on their present investment (and seemingly thinks of relationships in this way.

After exhausting all of his non-fiction, it’s time to see the other side of Franzen

Lightly skimmed the first two parts of the book, now giving a closer read to the more interesting (to me, at least) third part

Games 5+6 down. Games are fun, but often times they could use an extra line or two of annotation just to get an idea of what Fischer/his opponent's plans are. It seems okay to leave obvious moves un-annotated, but there are quite a few times where I'm left wondering what Fischer's plan is.

Also, there has to be a better way to show alternative (and alt-alt) lines rather than enclose them in a further set of brackets

Games 3+4 today. Nothing flashy, just positional play with no mistakes. Rock solid all-around.

Games 3+4 today. Nothing flashy, just positional play with no mistakes. Rock solid all-around.

Going to attempt to do at least 1-2 games per day. Game 2, Fischer-Larsen ‘Slaying the Dragon’. The engine says that Fischer made 1 inaccurate move the entire game - almost machine-like precision. Too bad he was an anti-Semite and went insane because he was an artist on the chessboard.

Becoming very skim-able and outside of a shallow introduction to Marxist ideas, specifically class struggle, isn’t of much use