Видео

@@timbott22 The Latin is on hold before I finish other tasks but the writing is only getting better every day. Unfortunately it is mostly in Spanish, except for a couple of essays I have written on the side and an immense bilingual novel that is burying me alive in crumpled papers. But thank you for asking, I was just considering making a video about it :)

That would be an awesome idea. Hope to see more about your novel and writing soon.

@@davidnovakreadspoetry I did not intend to say that I prefer literature to philosophy, I actually don’t. I was only talking about them insofar as the values and cognitive dynamics implicit in their usage are mental exercises, and while I do love philosophy, I think it is very easy for it to take itself as gospel and to try to persuade the reader to surrender critical thinking to it as opposed to analyze and dissect it. Literature doesn’t require that extra strain of resistance in order to be enjoyed critically. But if one is able to read with a detached critical eye, then by all means even the most dogmatic philosophy is a great and fun exercise much like a game of chess. I don’t know what you think about this, but in my experience I’d place history halfway between these two disciplines.

@@jennyjaybles I see your point. In some way philosophy is thought and stays distant throughout, never being really embodied. But literature can feel like it is being lived on one’s own flesh, making it a lot more personal.

@@ToReadersItMayConcern Hard to respond when I agree with literally everything you said. Perhaps I would add that it is philosophers’ will to convert their readers both what makes reading philosophy a dangerous activity for a mind that wants to remain independent and simultaneously the opposite. For if one were to find himself without the right tools in front of a certain author, then it would be quite impossible to safeguard the detached impartiality required for critical analysis, but if one is aware of this and has a strong sense of cognitive integrity, then philosophy can build more mental resilience than anything else. Insofar as representing reality, I think it is a case to case basis and quite hard to compare since literature is more concerned with a phenomenological representation while philosophy is almost always committed to a synthetic epistemology. Nevertheless, as a writer I have found literature’s irreverent boundlessness to be a much more gratifying way to expand my inner world. I wouldn’t say I am or will ever be completely back in the way I was before, but I am also not leaving, I like this little community way too much :)

@@TriumphalReads I look forward to see what that is! Thank you!

@@jennyjaybles Well there comes the joy of rereading, you’ll get another chance to annotate it at some point haha. I‘d love to see what symbols you come up with! I am glad I could help :)

Oh you have made much more than just one video that I consider great my friend! I don’t know why it doesn’t surprise me that there are so many similitudes between your annotating choices and my own. I also have a similar story in relation to reading my mother’s notes in her books, but our relationship is not as symbiotic as your own seem to be ha, ha. Anyways, I am glad I was able to add my own footnote to your video! As for the Collin’s Sociology of Philosophies my plan of reading it goes way back to my first year in university. Back then, I was compulsively reading philosophy histories wherever I could find them, and right around then, a Spanish philosopher called Ernesto Castro said on an interview that he believed that book to be the very best History of Philosophy ever made and a while later he even made a series of videos about it. I tend to take his recommendations extremely seriously because despite having attended philosophy classes in multiple universities, he is the only person I ever considered a real teacher on the subject, his videos really saved me when I was working in construction with no friends or time to carve nice pictures in the cave systems of by inner world. Nevertheless, my very ‘practical mind’ decided that I had to read every other philosophy history on my TBR before getting to it, a task that I just finished three years later at the dawn of this 2025. You can probably tell I was the kind of kid who would leave the nice food on the plate for last. I hope you let me know when you start reading it! There are a few books that I would like to break down on my channel like I did with Adorno’s and Hegel’s, and this is probably the one I anticipate the most along with Spinoza’s. I look forward to our many discussions about it :)

@@materiagrix That's a great bit of background to your knowledge of that book. Thanks for explaining so thoroughly. I have a similar completionist impulse when it comes to reading: I anticipate some great work, then line-up necessary precursors, to the point that it's taken me years to read what I really want to read out of a self-made necessity. I'm glad to have found someone with equally odd tendencies-I'm not alone in my compulsions! I'll definitely keep you posted! We'll have to video chat, not for RUclips, just between us. Once we're both halfway through that work (and Solenoid, too) would be a great time. I'll let you know once I'm done with all my other readerly requirements. By the way, I've also toiled through a few different philosophy overviews (Russell, Grayling); I think the one that flowed how I wanted was Appiah's Thinking It Through, but that only covers contemporary philosophy in a textbook-like format. Are there any others that for you were positive experiences? Also, go ahead and send me an email so we can get in touch that way. Should be near the description for my profile, a little button to reveal email.

That sounds great. Of the books you mentioned I prefer Russell’s, but I haven’t read Appiah’s. I just finished Durant’s ‘Story of Philosophy’ and although the first half was amazingly written, and it is very good for some figures like Kant, Bacon and Spinoza, overall it felt way too partial, and incomplete. In Spain the one I hear about the most is Copleston’s (Ernesto Castro swears by it), but I have never read that one cover to cover. My preference is Anthony Kenny’s History of Western Philosophy; It is very rigorous and not entirely dry, but my favorite thing about it is the structure, the book is divided in half between a history of philosophical thought and a history of philosophers. For something that goes beyond the West, I think Collin’s might be it, but I also recommend the podcast ‘History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps’ as a more leisurely approach. I haven’t been able to find your email, maybe send me a message to this one: grixetc @ gmail . com

@@markodern789 Sorry! One sec I’ll fix that immediately! Just check :)

@@anotherbibliophilereads At the pace I’m going it will be 2035 hahaha. Nice to see you here though! I’ve been meaning to make a response to one of the tops you made on my absence!

@@joshuacreboreads AI is a whole new step in the wrong direction if you ask me. Not because it is a bad invention per se, I believe it could be an amazing advancement, but instead I just keep seeing people using it to do the thinking for them.

Exactly. At my university, we are allowed to have AI write 30% of our essays. Just ridiculous. What is the point of attending university if one doesn’t even write one’s own essays? It annoys me.

@@joshuacreboreads That’s horrific! This is why university degrees are worth nothing anymore. I know so many people who don’t write their essays at all, that I am starting to think those who do write them are becoming a minority.

@@Deej210 Glad to hear! There is a lot to gain with learning a new language. I have a second channel in Spanish if that interests you :)

@@davidnovakreadspoetry I kayaked through it hahaha

@@jesusdelcanto9715 Estupendamente! Me encantaría vivir en Argentina en algún momento pero soy Español. Tal vez te interese mi canal en Español @grixtraselespejo136 o Materia Grix. Gracias por tu comentario!

@@araucaria5173 Oh I am sure that if a mere tourist of the English language like I am, has found a way to dig up the beauty in Shakespeare, you also will sooner or later. But since you talk about the Greeks, I’d love to know if you have a favorite :)

@@joshuacreboreads Thanks to you for listening!

@@ShawnDStandfast Nice to be back! No, I am still still in sunny Canary Islands! But whenever I am back in England you will be the first to know, I am dying to see in person your new library arrangements!

@materiagrix Cool. Still a work in progress. But it's slowly getting there.

@@markodern789 Not in Siberia no, I haven’t done anything that crazy since Scotland… I rode a bicycle across Italy though.

@@joshuacreboreads Yes, the list of good poems is endless, but excellent writing makes the wrist pain quite bearable. Thank you!

@@germannino7909 Hmm… I’ve been drafting a Tag precisely about this topic. As a writer I would be flattered if somebody ever pirated a book of mine if I ever manage to publish one. But I’ll say more about this soon on a video :)

@@duyguturgut476 Thank you for the unbelievably nice comment, I have a lot more book talking coming your way soon!

@@greyfjr I agree, thank you for your appreciation, I am glad to be back.

@@Agyaat_annonymous That’s wonderful to hear! Thank you :)

@@NicholasOfAutrecourt Oh I could’ve been gone for a decade and we would still not be strangers! The love of books binds us all!

@@MaximusStetich Hey!

@@erik_carter_art Thank you haha!

@@TriumphalReads I was just watching one of your videos yesterday, Glad to be back!

@@anotherbibliophilereads Oh no… Booktube could not do without you!

No, I didn’t speak English at all until I was 19 years old :)

@@materiagrix Beautiful accent, by the way:)