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how wonderfully Richard David Precht tells the stories and insights of philosophers like Ramon Llull, Cusanus, Sebastian Castellio, Erasmus van Rotterdam, Thomas Moore and many more in a most fascinating way, always putting them in the context of their time.. what a ride!

how wonderfully Richard David Precht tells the stories and insights of philosophers like Ramon Llull, Cusanus, Sebastian Castellion, Erasmus van Rotterdam, Thomas Moore and many other geniuses in a most fascinating way, always putting them in the context of their time.. what a ride!

Ramon Llull, Sebastian Castellion, Erasmus van Rotterdam, Thomas Moore and many other geniuses, what a ride!

Cusanus‘ (Nikolaus von Kues) docta ignorantia: „Der Vernünftige weiss um die Beschränkungen des Verstands.“

„Philosophie ist keine gerade aufsteigende Linie. Sie ist eine Bewegung von vielen Wellen; so wenig zielführend wie Alkohol, aber hoffentlich erhellend.“
Richard David Precht, im Juli 2017

My first reading was then a dive in Russian literature and Dostoyevsky`s psychologically bright narrative style. Now again fascinated by the struggles and silliness of quite desperate characters, interesting but caught-up-in-this-culture women and different kinds of not so nice and nicer but hopeless men. What exactly is Dostoyevsky telling on the political, social and spiritual conditions of his time?

My first reading, many years ago, was a first deep dive in Russian literature and Dostoyevsky`s psychologically bright narrative style, fascinated by the struggles and silliness of quite desperate characters, interesting but caught-up-in-this-culture women and different kinds of not so nice and nicer but hopeless men. Now, rereading, stunned again by the vivid happenings, encounters and the strange and just therefor

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"Ich habe mein ganzes Leben lang fast immer über dieselben Dingen nachgedacht, viel ist dabei nicht herausgekommen, höchstens, dass mich das Denken als Denken nie verliess, sondern immer tiefere Furchen zog."