The directions in this article felt better than what most receive from intro courses or pop textbooks on the subject. Kudos to Max for so clearly pointing towards the steps of philosophy. And I have to say, you have a very evoking voice, Johannes!

Definitely worth the listen - much appreciated! I don’t think there’s any less thought happening with AI than without. Those who are led by the nose by AI probably weren’t thinking much to begin with. For my part, I ask AI agents to find things for me in large masses of material: to find things that are similar to a particular idea in all of St Augustine’s works. That would take a research assistant an entire semester perhaps. AI is wonderful for that. Should I have it translate Heidegger? No, of course not. But if I want to know more about his use of a particular word and to suggest bits from his oeuvre that I should read to help my understanding about that word - now that’s useful. You can probably tell that I want an AI research assistant 😂… good stuff my friend. I’m glad I found your channel. We do somewhat similar things it seems, though I focus a lot more on Meister Eckhart since he’s my main interest

This essay is really helpful to me. I've considered myself a perpetual beginner in philosophy after 'sampling' from a wide range of the many great texts from plato up up to the postmoderns and beyond. While that's not to say I haven't spent a great deal with each of those texts individually (often spending months reading and rereading the first 75 pages or so) I inevitably begin to itch to continue exploring/ surveying other texts and authors in the tradition. Over the years I've found myself "doing the rounds" jumping from text to text, completing a very few, and circling back to others. I think this has its benefits as well and as the years go by I find that each go round the circle I have a slightly better understanding of how the pieces fit together, how different texts and different philosophers are responding to various problematics. It's difficult being a slow reader and not having the benefit of being part of a university philosophy program. But my interest has never waned and I'm hoping that soon I will be able to take on some of those big texts in full. From kants first critique and hegel's POS to Difference and Repetition. Thanks for the inspiration.

Hello, Johannes,good to now the name of you good friend,I'm in phase whit what has been said and glad to hear it, valuable content written by someone of the continent. I wish you the energy of clarity, thank you!!

Hello Johannes, Discovered your channel this past week and have been throughly enjoying each and every video. I'm a senior biomedical sciences and philosophy student at UCF. My philosophy senior seminar paper and presentation had eerily similar sentiments and points to those Gottschlich expresses in his paper. Yet, it was called incomprehensible by the professor. I was wondering if you and/or Gottschlich would be interested in reading it? I would love if you guys read it so I could get some actual feedback on it, especially given the lack thereof from my actual professor.