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Nice! Is there a repo? I might be interested in adding stuff like ISBN's or LOC (library of congress) call numbers. I think from that it might be straightforward to query for like page number (on some database...) and maybe use that instead of page counts which may differ from one printing to another.
Oo maybe the folks at prolewiki would be willing to host it? @[email protected] is one of the admins I think!
You've given me some calm, ok, I'll definitely try to go through at least some of it :3
Could I ask, how verbose or technical is Beer's stuff? I am more a natural sciences rather than a math/cs kinda person. Do you think for someone with a passing understanding there would be much to get out of it?
You can read The Presocratic Philosophers by Kirk & Raven to get a background which'll make the context of dialectics as introduced by Hegel make sense.
You can still read the major works which were taught, dialogues featuring Socrates (written by Plato & Xenophon), Plato's works (specifically Republic and Laws). By Aristotle, Poetics, Nicomachean & Eudaimonean Ethics, and Politics.
I think for me, reading dialogues helped quite a bit. I found the audiobook of the Socratic Dialogues published by Uemi books to be a great resource. I would stick to a dialogue for maybe a week, since I'd have to go back and re-listen to bits when I had the time. I would take notes, ask "Why did Socrates say this?" "Why didn't he say that?" "What was meant by the phrase...".
I really enjoyed Euthyphro, I am sorta learning Attic Greek so I can go through the dialogue in its original language. I often think I find myself in s similar situation, where the person I am engaging with sorta runs off.
For us ADHD or otherwise low attention-span folk, and in the interest of an economic estimate made before deciding what to read, would it make sense to 1. indicate the length somehow and 2. have essays or shorter works included so if one cant read a book at least they (i mean myself) can get some reading done!
Yo it's pretty good
I've found comrades IRL benefit from contemporary philosophy of science (why don't people align materialism? what is instrumentalism?) and would suggest Theory and Reality by Godfrey-Smith. It was the text I used in my upper year Phil Sci course and I find myself referring to it frequently.
I get that the kind of science in scientific socialism is a broader concept that what is employed in the profession of science, I still think it's useful to know some of it...
how does paul cockshotts work figure into this? his name was also associated with cybersyn.
appreciate the resources!
i had red grippy socks, wish they gave us slippers :/
I always thought the explanation of exploitation was precise, working from Engel's explanation of primitive communism with a historical understanding really clarifies things.
Slavery is definitely clear, not sure where that one came from. You got serfs, chattel slavery, domestic servitude, uhh others... look the US State Dept website has an explainer on modern slavery, if the historical stuff is a bit confusing.