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All about Witt

This chapter finally gets to Wittgenstein and his theory of language as a part of reality itself. Languages grammar is immune to ontology. And even though language is often approximate, it’s still coercive and influential. All concepts are based in roughness. Language is created by the practical project used by it. Like building houses.

A scathing critique of nietzsche’s overall philosophy

Talks about nietazche and what he was and wasn’t. He’s a lot more radical than I thought and his ideas can only cause harm and suffering if used in society. Because he thinks that utopia is created by great men who only “give commands” and don’t need reason because reason is a tool created by the weak to ignore complexity (with the goal to “possess” said thing

Went over the similarities and difference between nietzsche and Marx. In my opinion nietzsche is more of an essentialist (sees society being run by ubermensch is good and stable while things like populism’s and compassion as hindrances towards a greater good

Just finished do badgers have souls chapter. And it talked about lot about aquinas and other philosophers that see the pitfalls of separating body and mind. You can’t be a mind without a sensory experience with it. We are humans not computers. He ended the chapters about ascetics