• @Shrike502
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    51 year ago

    Still chugging through Morris Cornfort. This time on the second part, about historic materialism. Interesting stuff, although some of the bits did not age well.

      • @Shrike502
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        31 year ago

        Yes, that’s right. I forgot to check the original spelling

        • Makan ☭ CPUSAOP
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          31 year ago

          Gotcha. Yeah, I’ve wanted to read one of his books for a while.

  • @Samubai
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    1 year ago

    I read from the Tao Te Ching all the time. It’s a great book! I am also reading 100 years of solitude. I’m getting close to the end. It’s a trip. I don’t know what I’ll read next.

    I was listening to Losurdo’s book on liberalism and it’s so bonkers… like, you realize just how fake and dishonest liberalism is. I read it based on SpaceCowboy’s rec. idk where they wen tho :(

    • Makan ☭ CPUSAOP
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      21 year ago

      Zhuangzi > Daodejing

      IMHO

      But I love both of them.

      • @Samubai
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        31 year ago

        Haha, I have read the Zhuangzi but I feel like I haven’t found a great translation of it. The translations I have found lack the meditative and poetic quality of Stephen Mitchell’s Tao Te Ching.

        What translation do you like of the Zhuangzi?

        Also, I feel like everyone spells both of those titles and authors differently. Is there any consensus on that? Maybe I’m just not up to date lol

        • Makan ☭ CPUSAOP
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          21 year ago

          Find the one by Wang Rongpei.

          It’s translated by Chinese scholars during the late 1990s. You’d like it.

  • @LVL
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    31 year ago

    Just got an ereader recently and downloaded a couple of books on my to read list. Decided to start with fiction first cuz I’ve literally been only reading non-fiction for the past couple of years. So currently I’m reading Star Trek DS9: The Neverending Sacrifice. Great book in general but even better if you’ve watched DS9. After that book I’m not sure what I’ll read, maybe Parenti’s book about Yugoslavia or Orientalism by Edward Said.