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rubbish

This is going to be interesting. He is going to read Kant as saying the opposite of what he thinks he said. يعجبني!

I also assume that he is referring to the positive method of relying on observable facts. However, I think this is a tremendous sleep and I am wondering where are the the Kantian theory of knowledge is going to come in. If anyone has read it can give me clues I would be very grateful

So I’ve just started this book which I’m really excited to read, and I am slightly apprehensive about the foundation of the argument. According to Hayot The “currently dominant theory of reason is it unreasonable” because it theorisers reason and extrapolates truth procedures from a limited specimen of inanimate and nonconscious objects. Fair enough.

Entertaining

Lost the book in the grand canyon

“All those beautiful quotes, all those wonderful characters, Hugo and Voltaire Andrew so and start, around home our lives had gravitated, we are nothing but a middle eastern fiction, and are you feeble for people with a romantic souls”

“When you’ve grown up with the certain knowledge that France is the steadfast ally, always by your side to protect you, it’s hard to accept that it has deliberately planted a knife in your back and is watching you bleed on the cornerstone.”

“If Robinson Crusoe had been Iranian, he would have let himself die the minute he got to the island, and the story would have been over”
Would that he were...

p. 226 is a gem

Love the way he reduces the rape, pillage and colonisation of Palestine to a mere spat over what part of the Jewish temple is recognised: “the temple of the Jews has become the Esplanade of the Mosques, but the Palestinians...refuse to recognise that the temple of the Jews once occupied the place where their mosques are situated. This is one of the greatest obstacles to resolving the Israeli – Palestinian conflict”

Can’t