mimi10v3Conceptual tools for living: play, reality, freedom, nature, value, and purpose after scarcity. The books matter when an abstraction changes the shape of an ordinary decision.
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Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility
About the bookJames P. Carse distinguishes between two fundamental modes of human engagement: finite games, which are played to win and have clear boundaries, and infinite games, which are played to…
8/10Meaning : PhilosophyWalden
About the bookWalden is a work of personal philosophy and natural history in which Henry David Thoreau recounts his two-year experiment in simple living at a cabin near Walden Pond in Concord, Massac…
7/10Meaning : PhilosophyThe Courtier and the Heretic
About the bookMatthew Stewart traces the intellectual rivalry between two of the seventeenth century's most brilliant minds: the excommunicated Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza and the young German…
2/10Meaning : PhilosophyThe Reason of Things: Living With Philosophy
About the bookA. C. Grayling, a prominent British philosopher and public intellectual, offers a collection of short essays that apply philosophical reasoning to the practical dilemmas of daily life.…
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| Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World | Nick Bostrom | 2024 | — | Unread | → |
| Fanged Noumena | Nick Land | 2011 | — | Unread | → |
| Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility | James P. Carse | 1986 | 8 | Read | → |
| The Courtier and the Heretic | Matthew Stewart | 2006 | 7 | Read | → |
| The Logic of Scientific Discovery | Karl Popper | 1934 | — | In catalog | → |
| The Reason of Things: Living With Philosophy | A. C. Grayling | 2001 | 2 | Read | → |
| Walden | Henry David Thoreau | 1854 | 8 | Read | → |
| Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | Robert M. Pirsig | 1974 | — | Read | → |