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Conrad has a truly unique writing style. It wasn’t until I began Russian literature that I realized Russians did not consider themselves Europeans, yet spoke French and German and had a love hate relationship with European culture.

Thanks! Very interesting. The last bit plainly true by my estimation. Fairly dense, I'm going to give this a listen twice.

Thank you!

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Fortunately it is called a principle, which means that it should be valid on every scale of nature. By relating this principle to the second law of thermodynamics, I can demonstrate the existence of Almighty God. But above all his only gamble. Also because it is God's only desire. I am talking about understanding, or order that emerges spontaneously from chaos. Endrit Vuka, Bologna IT

Yeah this is a good one. Lots of golden analysis. Keep it up!

This is a very thoughtful commentary on von Eschenbach's work. Other channels attempting to get to grips with this story are nowhere near as revelatory. Many thanks.

superb, illuminated interpretation and insights

12:10 I think seperating form and function is kinda wrong, because form is also function For example American suburbs are terrible in function in that they are not efficient at all, but also that they are terrible to live in compared to a city like Copenhagen because they look ugly. So the form is part of the function, if the form is shit, it sucks to live in, and therfore is bad at its function

You sound exactly like Adam Something but not talking as fast :0

24:45 For Poincaré, it's really psychology. He's expilicit about that: “Il n'y a pas de logique et d'épistémologie indépendantes de la psychologie.” Logicists (who were mostly mediocre mathematicians like Russell) hated him for that lol.

Thank you, I loved this book. I also read Witiko in English. It was a peaceful book to read and very repetitive, and yet it comes to my mind more than many other books I’ve read. Perhaps that’s the subtle genius of Stifter at work. I also appreciated his introduction which you highlighted.

are we all witnessing the incremental (step by step ) decline of the west, folks?😁

He was for religious dictatorship in Russia. He was not for west. Mad writer.

Wells was for socialism and paranormal. Too bad.

Conrad was very anti reason.

Red One is a good science fction.

Carlyle was for Kant. Bad mistake.

Religious poetry is very bad.

The best french thinker.

He was for John Scopes. But Mencken was not for relativity ( Einstein). In this point, Mencken was wrong.

Very nice.

Excellent work, ty for posting!

This lecture was excellent. thank you for posting

25/25Thank you for explaining the painting by American artist Julien Russell Storey in 1888 of Black Prince at Crecy contemplating corpse of Dead Blind Brave King John of Bohemia father of the German King a beautiful painting but you do not reveal where it is located?

Kurt Eisner is probably most famous now because Hitler attended his funeral, something his ghost is probably not happy about.

I endured reading half of it. I think I should get at least half a Nobel prize for that.

On 7 July 1945, he was sentenced in his absence by Special Council of the NKVD to an eight-year term in a labour camp. This was the usual sentence for most crimes under Article 58 at the time.[30] The first part of Solzhenitsyn's sentence was served in several work camps; the "middle phase", as he later referred to it, was spent in a sharashka (a special scientific research facility run by Ministry of State Security), where he met Lev Kopelev, upon whom he based the character of Lev Rubin in his book The First Circle, published in a self-censored or "distorted" version in the West in 1968 (an English translation of the full version was eventually published by Harper Perennial in October 2009).[31] In 1950, Solzhenitsyn was sent to a "Special Camp" for political prisoners. During his imprisonment at the camp in the town of Ekibastuz in Kazakhstan, he worked as a miner, bricklayer, and foundry foreman. His experiences at Ekibastuz formed the basis for the book One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. One of his fellow political prisoners, Ion Moraru, remembers that Solzhenitsyn spent some of his time at Ekibastuz writing.[32] While there, Solzhenitsyn had a tumor removed. His cancer was not diagnosed at the time. In March 1953, after his sentence ended, Solzhenitsyn was sent to internal exile for life at Birlik,[33] a village in Baidibek District of South Kazakhstan.[34] His undiagnosed cancer spread until, by the end of the year, he was close to death. In 1954, Solzhenitsyn was permitted to be treated in a hospital in Tashkent, where his tumor went into remission. His experiences there became the basis of his novel Cancer Ward and also found an echo in the short story "The Right Hand." Hope this helps

Underrated series. Keep up the good work good Sir!

.. started reading Solzhenitsyn about '82, having an amateur's interest in historic and modern Russia. His writings seemed to me, introspective and interrogating himself with all his knowledge of the darkness in human character. The stark raw reality of seeing his world truly must have been very hard work not to submerge.

All bad penal systems tend to rely on confessions, which are usually easy to extract from helpless prisoners.

I completely agree with your comments on the Richard Wilbur Library of America translation. These are beautiful books and the plays are remarkable.

Very interesting. Thank so much for your video

Good work. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you for providing this illuminating guide to Under Western Eyes. There is very little like it on TH-cam. I haven't read it yet, but I know it was a favorite of my late father. So far, I have only read a couple of Conrad short stories: The Lagoon and Il Conte. I started Heart of Darkness and Victory years ago and got sidetracked. I admire his genius, but my mind or stamina apparently wasn't prepared to persevere. After having read and discussed The Lagoon with my high school seniors recently, I would like to make a sincere effort with Conrad again. If you have any suggestions, please share them. Thanks again!

Thanks for introducing me to the writings of Sterne, and the word "ratiocination." Your opening discussion about marriage, parenthood, and sexual "progress" was quite informative. Good stuff, all around.

Liberal Democracy = rule by international finance and the Merchant class

I started "Ninety-Three" four days ago and have been both entranced, and confused by the content. Thank you so much for producing this podcast, and particularly this episode. You've provided some valuable historical information that will help orient my way through the reading. Looking forward to more content. One minor suggestion: slow down just a bit when quoting from the text. You've got a good reading voice, but your pace is just a little too quick. Give it a try and see how it sounds to your own ear.

Thanks a lot brother for this ❤

Schiller's treatise on the metaphysics of beauty isn't tough or hard . . . if you've properly prepared for reading work at this level. The difficulty isn't because: it was written in 1794, or a translation from German, or he's kind of like forming his own philosophy - the fault is IN THE READER! To assert otherwise borders on blind narcissism. Further, to publicly pontificate and publish on something that is uncertainly grasped (however well-intentioned), also borders on blind narcissism. This response is tough and hard, but . . . the Collective West is in its precipitous, ultimate decline because hundreds of millions of people presume to speak on what they poorly grasp - with the power and vigor and authority given them by high tech (once upon a time voices were published and heard only when they met the standards of the best and the brightest). The glory and wonder that was once western civilization is consequently drowning in it's own vomit. The barbarians are already in the house! and the good, the true, the beautiful are always the first to go in the flames. Its an ancient cycle, but . . . Schiller sure was glorious!! And IF he's right, THEN on the other side . . .

I am indeed no expert on Carlyle, but there seems to be a deep connection between his thought, Vedanta and Hindu-Aryan speculation generally.

I really appreciate your clear and concise delivery...cheers!

Great video. Nobody who claims that he's ideas are Darwinistic has bothered to actually read Spencer, for the dynamics of selection are completely missing in the First Principles. Also can you please explain to me in more details on how the law of the persistence of differentiation (increasing heterogeneity) contradicts the second law of thermodynamics?

I read the Penguin's version which is quite thin in volume. I always read it on metro and it's a light read for me! I guess it's because I don't analyze his ideas in great detail but just grasp the gist of his ideas. Plus I just have this passion for performing and visual arts that motivates me to understand why aesthetic education can bring about societal progress. So I can't stop flipping it through!

Well done. Thanks.

The ability to pin down ideas, concise and suggestive, onto paper is as invaluable as any latter ability to sort out and realize said ideas. A simple trick I regret having not more extensively played

Thank you. A useful summary.

Nietzsche: Art protects us from beeing destroyed by truth.

The problems the earth faces today are NOT a matter solvable by political or social negotiations. It is a clear indicator of the failure of SCIENCE: Copernicus dumped the baby (GEOCENTRISM) and paved the way to drink the bathwater (THE FAITH that an uncontrollable by us power, now called NATURE instead of GOD) controls the flow of all events in the entire universe, IRRESPECTIVE OF WHAT WE OURSELVES DO IN IT. Billions since, including the most brilliant minds of the human race, Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Newton, Einstein,...have all wasted their entire lifetime following his work and adjusting the LAWS OF NATURE (!) they derived using his destructive assumption to fit results of observations and/or experiments whenever they deviate from their PREDICTIONS. It is time we realize that the earth is unique as the only vessel in the entire known universe that develops plants on its own surface to then deliver and sustain beings here through them and it has to be analyzed as such, and NOT as a "mediocre planet" stupidly revolving around an insignificant star. It is far more important for seekers of knowledge to derive the mathematical model of the mechanism how CONTROLLABLE BY US PARTICLE INTERACTIONS inside the earth develop PLANTS on its own surface than to waste time, efforts and funds to explain "why apples fall?" and "why celestial bodies move as they do due to UNCONTROLLABLE BY US FORCES", as once we have the above model we'd be able to influence growth of and on plants to sustain evil (disasters, predation, diseases ~ which include all violence ~ and death) free life function eternally. It is immaterial whether the answer to a question (why apples fall?) is correct or wrong so long as the question itself is totally irrelevant for sustenance of life on this earth. It is high time we set PRACTICAL PREVENTION OF ALL EVIL (defined exhaustively above) as the sole purpose cum criterion of proof of any system of knowledge instead of the current ideal of TEOS (The Experimental and Observational Science), "knowledge for its own sake out of curiosity" along with the misguided criterion of proof "PREDICTIONS tallying with results of experiments and/or observations", which don't even guarantee that so concluded LAWS OF NATURE won't cause new harms, let alone PREVENT existing ones or even PREDICT them accurately. PREVENTION of evil is not found even in the vocabulary of TEOS

Here is Einstein's new "thought experiment": 2 identical precision clocks are moving toward each other ... Clock 1 shouts out: "Hey clock 2, you are ticking SLOWER than i do" ... Clock 2 replies: "FALSE ... ! ... i am ticking FASTER than you do!" ... That is called a classical epistemeological CONTRADICTION, which final falsifies Einstein's theory of "Special Relativity", because clock 2 can NEVER ticking "slower" & "faster" at the SAME TIME than clock 1 ... ! ...