The reading collection
Psychology, geopolitics, philosophy—and everything in between.
323 readings · 73–84
Get While the Getting’s Good Life is suffering. Enjoy it while you can. We may be licensed to reason in this way since there is no denying the initial proposition, but it isn’t only that life is suffering.
In Thoughts Without a Thinker,* Mark Epstein makes the case that what is missing from psychoanalysis is Buddhism, that the two are complementary. Psychoanalysis is a reversion to the past, but a study of the past,…
A meme is a collection of ideas that spreads through people. But it does not spread indiscriminately, it relies on skillful narration and delivery on the part of the person propagating it.
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding* by David Hume is considered one of the most philosophical and scientific texts ever written, and primarily, it exposes the limits of human rationality through a series of 12…
The problem of self-discipline concerns each person, no matter what their beliefs or background. There is no need to expand on why self-discipline is important. Naturally, many approaches to practicing it have…
Descartes in 90 minutes* by Paul Strathern is a book about the life and work of the philosopher, mathematician and scientist, Rene Descartes.
He pondered deeply, like diving into a deep water he let himself sink down to the ground of the sensation, down to the place where the causes lie, because to identify the causes, so it seemed to him, is the very…
Sigmund Freud’s Totem and Taboo is a book that explores the origins of human morality and religion.
Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self” is a seminal work by Carl Jung that explores the depths of the human psyche through the lens of analytical psychology.
In Lost*, Episode 3, the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 face a grim reality: stranded on a mysterious island with no apparent chance of rescue.
The Central Problem of Philosophy Camus starts The Myth of Sisyphus by stating that the central problem of philosophy is to figure out whether life is worth living, everything else is details.
What are Myths? In The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Campbell shows us what the myths of the past have in common. He identifies an archetypal story structure that explains the patterns most great myths and folk stories…