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archduke

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29 year old philosopher in Indonesia

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archduke finished reading Broken Buddha

No rating

Wow, I assumed Theravada in Theravada-majority countries would be fairly corrupt, but I had no idea it was that bad. Author has some good ideas on how to address the issues.

archduke finished reading Blue & Brown Books by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Blue & Brown Books (Paperback, 1942, Harper Perennial)

One of the better introductions to Wittgensteinian thought

archduke finished reading Thus Spake Zarathustra: Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus Spake Zarathustra: Thus Spoke Zarathustra (2015)

Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None (German: Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch …

Brilliant philosophical fairy tale

archduke rated Ecotopia: 4 stars

Ecotopia (2014, Banyan Tree Books in association with Heyday Books)

Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach

"Twenty years have passed since Northern California, Oregon, and Washington seceded from the United States to create a new nation, …

archduke finished reading Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach

"Twenty years have passed since Northern California, Oregon, and Washington seceded from the United States …

Optimistic

archduke rated Abolition of Work and Other Essays: 5 stars

No cover — Abolition of Work and Other Essays (1986, Loompanics Unlimited)

Abolition of Work and Other Essays by Bob Black

In the essay Black argues for the abolition of the producer- and consumer-based society, where, Black contends, all of life …

archduke rated V: 4 stars

V by Thomas Pynchon

archduke rated Inherent vice: 4 stars

Inherent vice by Thomas Pynchon

archduke rated Bleeding Edge: 4 stars

Bleeding Edge (Hardcover, 2013, Penguin Press)

Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Pynchon brings us to New York in the early days of the internet

It is 2001 in New York …

archduke finished reading Critique of Pure Reason (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant) by Immanuel Kant

Critique of Pure Reason (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant) (Paperback, 1999, Cambridge University Press)

Worthy content but not very readable.

archduke rated Critique of Pure Reason (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant): 4 stars

Critique of Pure Reason (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant) by Immanuel Kant

archduke reviewed The world as will and representation. by Arthur Schopenhauer

The world as will and representation. (1958, Falcon's Wing Press)

Review

5 stars

All I can say is, wow. If you've read Kant, Hume, and other metaphysicians, you owe it to yourself to read this. Readable and covers a wide number of topics in a consistent way!