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When important things go wrong in a person’s life, that person predictably and understandably becomes emotionally upset. This was a common-sense perspective until rational and cognitive therapy resuscitated an ancient Roman slave’s perspective which asserts (wrongly) that people are not upset by what happens to them! And that is precisely the problem. Epictetus was a slave in ancient Rome. Not only was he a slave, but his mother, before him, was also a slave; and he was born into slavery. Imagine how low his expectations of life would be - the slavish son of a slavish woman! And then he was released by his slave-owner, to preach Extreme Stoicism to the masses. - Dr Jim Byrne ,ex student of Albert ellis

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Duality comes about with the syntax of language. Sit in a room silently and you will experience no duality. The problem arises when one attempts to create a definitive formula for Truth. Without the concept of absolute truth there is no duality conflict.

Vico's theory justifies the "blurring of categories" in regards to the topics we call History, Literature, Science etc. If we follow Vico we begin to feel a common thread between these branches that is due to their all belonging to the same stage of the recorsi. Moreover, these "branches" of thought, though thought to belong to all time periods, are actually specific to each time period. Time periods are defined by the organization of the various organs of thought and activity that comprise the whole.

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Davood, It may interest you that Northrop Frye discusses Plato, in relation to the "stages" of Vico's cycle, in his book The Great Code. Frye sees Plato as the beginning of the 2nd stage --the metonymic stage/age of heroes. Although The Great Code is ostensibly about The Bible it really focuses on the transformations of language and consciousness more than anything else.

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Having lived in China, I found Han's ideas to reflect what permeates everyday life there in work and interactions.

this sounds interesting but I'm struggling to follow (tired brain). Would you consider doing a short summary of the key ideas?

Thank you for your video on the great Salman Rushdie! I have devoted a section of my private library to the works of this wonderful writer, and your video helps to comprehend his work and enjoy his creative genius! Looking forward to many more of your videos that help readers add to their enjoyment of world literature!

Loved your explanation of Don Quixote. Your way of presenting a topic is food for the soul because it encourages a deeper reading of the masterpiece! As a side note: I taught online as well for close to two years! Five classes a day, and it definitely was exhausting and not at all comparable to live instruction in which there is a much needed human interaction! My students also refused to turn on their cameras, nor did they participate. You are right, the best we could do was to be a resource to those students who really take their education seriously! I look forward to viewing more of your videos! Your knowledge, presence, enthusiasm and expertise are most appreciated and valued deeply!

3:00 Well, there's at least human nature to create culture. This is like saying there's no such thing as hydrogen. There's just water. Yes, there is, and one relies on the existence of the other. You can have a behavior without a culture. But you can't have a culture without the natural behavior to create that culture.

I loved all Murakami I’ve read when I was in uni. I believe I’ve read Norwegian Wood multiple times now. And then I went back to him this year and last year and found the two books (Singular and Wild Sheep Chase) to be underwhelming. This book in particular, I almost hate. There’s too much unnecessary setting descriptions. The narrator is uninterestingly apathetic, and the characters are not compelling. But I still bought Dance Dance Dance because they say it’s his best work. Let’s see.

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Greetings to you, Mr. Gozli I started Haruki Murakami's work with his first work, Listen to the Song of the Wind. I saw the maturity of his work in the last chapters of the book in search of hunting wild sheep. I followed his catchy, complex and enigmatic text and magic in dance dance dance. that this book was actually the next part of Rat's trilogy. These four books are actually the four foundations of the rest of his works.

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Depth is interesting, when we get there it’s shallow. Humility and longing, the food in Ratatouille was a blind test, or a double blind test of the critique. Knowing humility better perhaps is more like seeing the failed elder person, again having conversation alongside the younger hospital child, the bond begins, because the mind never gets old, this allowance is underused because of the stages in theory that have nothing to do with the age of the mind. Likely all we learned and stored in knowledge, is that to know where to find knowledge is more important than possessing it? The problem with watching a movie, is as infotainment, but to watch it as a critique, is the duration of seeing it as a director, an editor and the audience, to unravel the arc, the motives, the gesture towards humans, and the understanding of genius wrapped in an event of hundreds of people orchestrated, each adding an element of surprise. Really there are not too many movies to watch, there are things to watch of intrigue and study to notice change and how we change. To be obvious, ratatouille is not about a rat, and neither is it for children, it is child appropriate.

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Interesting review, I'll give this book a go. As for your criticism I think you put it well. Although as someone once wrote "if I want to go to Chicago I take the train that goes to Chicago. But when I get to Chicago I get off the train. I don't drag the train along with me - it has done its job." With that attitude in mind I think this book could be useful - a thorn to remove a thorn when it comes to an unconstructively negative perspective on humanity.

Thank you so much for converging and sharing your beautiful interpretation of Murakami's work; And precisely for those who want to understand this work, they should study two important works that form the foundation of all Murakami's subsequent works; One listens to the song of the wind and the other pinball. In this regard, I felt it necessary to point out a few points; The beginning of the story begins on the date of the suicide of Yukio Mishima, a Japanese traditionalist writer. November 25, 1970; The day of the sacrifice of God's lamb; Yukio Mishima. Christ of Japan I will not go into the details of his death because, like Christ, he suffered a lot until his death. I want to enter into one of the common points of some themes that the author mentions in most of his works, including time travel, which I want to analyze. In this book, Murakami several times imagines himself in the abyss of a well that he does not know where it ends and a feeling of fear and questioning emerges for him, which is precisely explained in his other work, Killing the Knight, when he is trapped in wormhole-shaped caves. It alludes to the journey of the narrator's little sister in Killing the Knight when she enters one of these caves. He is like one who is lost in the midst of countless worlds. Like the effect of a mirror in this book when a man sees a sheep in this. In other words, the author has mastered many principles of quantum physics and string theory, as well as reincarnation, but not in its popular sense; Rather, in the sense of progress in the direction of the evolution of people's roles in order to be perfected in the direction of Nirvana, he tries to give meaning to reality from the heart of metaphysics. Like the works of other authors such as Borges, Fuentes or Marquez. For this reason, in my opinion, suicide in Murakami's works, despite the fact that it is made bold, is forbidden, and in fact, suicide in Murakami's works is considered a valuable act, which is purposeful and helps the evolution, to get rid of evil, but not in all times, but it is a work aimed at finding the value of the nature of ethics, which can be seen as a re-emphasis on the importance of ethics in society, such as what Immanuel Kant was interested in, regardless of religion or any other school. . A girl's ear and listening power is actually cosmic intelligence; Intelligence that we won't need anymore when we get the chain of evolution. He appears for us as a single element to achieve peace and reach the truth in the path of evolution, and when we succeed in finding this chain of evolution; His duty is terminated. Today, Japan has fallen into an abyss of confusion due to its separation from thought (Zen), which expresses the supreme human truth, and cannot find a way out of this abyss. Another important point in Murakami's works is Murakami's view on sex. Although most critics of his works consider him anti-feminist, it should be noted that he criticizes life from an artistic point of view, even in sex, and somewhere in this book, for example, when he mentions: Not tonight! This is the importance he attaches to this point. Sex in Murakami's works is like painting and mixed with art, and he divides the pleasure between himself and his partner. I hope you accept my boldness in criticizing the work.

I really enjoyed the energy of this conversation. I love your questions Davood, and hearing about the process of writing this book. The process fascinates me, so this was a treat. Cadell - your distinction between trying to be 'blank and empty' as you study these thinkers vs. taking 'certain speculative liberties' when you are writing (and purposefully writing in your voice) reminds me in many ways of how I approach the theory of my therapy approach when I am outside of session (and engaging with different thinkers, theoretical resources, techniques) vs. how I am when I am in the room with a client. I hope you two have more conversations in the future.

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Despite your lukewarm reception of this book, my curiosity after watching was the push I needed to finally read something by Murakami and see what he's all about. I just finished reading this book and at risk of being too simplistic, I didn't really enjoy it but still have somewhat of an open mind about it. Maybe it's partly because I'm hyper-rational sometimes to a fault, so a work like this that's hard for to grasp analytically or make immediate sense of is inherently challenging for me. Despite having read fairly extensively in certain genres and styles, I'm not very well-versed in this type of literature and thus find it hard to even identify an entry point with which to relate to the novel and its characters. So it's possible that with a little time, I'll come to have a different view of it. At the same time, I don't think there is a lot here to help readers like me find an entry point. Sure, the descriptive writing in some scenes was enough to draw me in or paint a nice picture. But the narrator seems pretty accepting throughout the novel (except maybe at the very end?) that his life is one of mediocrity and that nothing around him makes all that much sense, that he is at best a pawn in a game played by greater powers... and the whole narrative cadence and tone of the novel reflected this, such that I felt very little driving force behind it, or even curiosity as to what would happen next. By the middle of the novel I had caught the narrator's attitude of, I don't know what's going on here or what it means and I don't even particularly care what happens next, but here I am and there are words on the page so let's proceed. Perhaps this is an achievement in itself for Murakami to have captured the character's apathy in this way, but it's not something I particularly care to partake in. Maybe some of this is what you allude to in your video when you say that Murakami and his characters recognize the problems in their world, but they simply accept those problems (even "accept" is too active of a word) and become complicit? For most of this book I felt that our narrator, and by extension I as a reader, was bumbling about in a state of apathy and mediocrity. Whether in doing so Murakami subtly romanticizes this aimless mode of existence, or critiques it, or both, I'm not sure.

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REALLY struggled with the style. 150 pages in, and the author stops using punctuation. Why does he hate us?

I've been thinking of reading this book for a while. I'm still uncertain because I vaguely remember Tyson saying he found the style frustrating at times and Tyson is usually pretty patient about this kind of thing🙂 (I also find it harder to commit to a book that may require patience knowing that it's over 700 pages long.) Nevertheless, I enjoyed your high-level discussion and it made me want to read the book more rather than less, so sooner or later I'll probably give it a try, especially if you do decide to read it again this year.

Im writing my thesis partly about the ideas of Han and your analysis of the book really helps me!

Thank u so much for reviewing this book by Kundera. Your insights were helpful and it encourages me to buy this book and explore his work not just merely discuss the ideas like you mentioned.

I think this book is a MESS; I can't follow it so I'm giving up on this book.

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I thought Lily was cool at first but she kept making bad decisions and it didn't even make sense why she loved Ryle the fact so many women fell in love with Ryle makes me think I lose faith in the love exhibit Ryle was a walking Red Flag and Lily was just not it. I blame her for everything that happened to her after there the kitchen was seen because while I understand Ryle is at fault and the Issue Lilly should've left the first time he hit her. Then she kept doing sneaky sus stuff thinking about Atlas and not being upfront with her feelings. Like I really don't understand how people can feel bad for her

Alpha Males, es una satira a la nueva agenda que nos quieren imponer sobre el nuevo hombre y la nueva mujer. Y refleja en manera trajicomica los conflictos existenciales que viven los hombres y las mujeres hispanas.

What would be your recommendation if someone wants to start reading Murakami. Is Kafka on the shore a good option???

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As a Jordan Peterson fan I can not help but agree with you on everything you said. I admire the calmness, precision and empathy you used while conveying your criticism. I believe that in Jordan his view that this work was a logical extension of his previous works before 12 rules for life called Maps of Meaning and his Harvard Personality and it's Transformations lectures. I am dying to know if you have read or seen those works and I wonder what your opinion is on those. The core ideas about his earliest work is about the nature of personality and its impact on personal meaning. In case you have not read it: He claims the big 5 OCEAN personality traits act as epidemiological filter for the world around us. He combined this with the Monkey Business Illusion experiment which, as you probably know, is about the psychology of attention. These traits simultaneously act as a judge. For example being high in agreeableness makes us look at people in the world who care for others and people who don't care for others (simplifying here). In turn we judge others for not being caring enough. He is also influenced by Jonathan Haidt his work on the correlations between the big 5 OCEAN personality traits and political leaning. I can't thank you enough for this criticism of Beyond Order.

What a beautiful summarization of how Jordan thinks, what his motivations are and how he falls into the trap of overextending his reach. I believe most people criticize him for the wrong reasons. I am very grateful that you criticize him with empathy and precision. As a fan of Jordan Peterson his work I will reevaluate the scope of his work to where it actually should stretch as well as I can. Thank you. In his defense he follows his interest to where it leads him. He started when he was young by being obsessed and by wondering how people could almost nuke each other in the cold war. Then through psychology, mythology, philosophy and symbolism inspired by Jung, he went on to do Maps of Meaning and Personality and it's Transformations. He believes that when a person is optimally challenged they get interested in something. A sort of psychological calling of your fate if you like. He has followed his calling and by this reasoning he has overextended his reach on where this knowledge should be applied. In my eyes are the first person who states this so clearly and I am happy that I watched this review. I care about Jordan and so I hope that this video will somehow reach him.

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I find this style of books so boring!

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