Hva er filosofi overview

In this blog post, I will write an overview of the book “Hva er filosofi” (What is philosophy?) by Lars Svendsen.

At a local bookstore, I bought a version that was translated into my native language. The translation isn’t the best, but I still finished the book as I found the content interesting and was able to get past the syntactical issues by ignoring them and merely focusing on the content 🙂 As a matter of fact, I think the syntactical issues were actually a good thing. I mostly write blog posts like this one because it helps me with crystallizing ideas, and when I try to explain parts of the book I can’t just copy/paste, I have to work on paraphrasing using (hopefully, what is) non-broken grammar.

I have read a couple of philosophy books in the past period, and I have to say that this book is probably the most meta of them all. I had one picture in mind as to what philosophy represents (argument+idea), but reading this book extended that view: philosophy is everything and nothing.

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Guest at the CodePub.dev podcast

I recently guested the CodePub podcast, hosted by a close friend of mine – Darko Bozhinovski. We talk about my start with computers and programming, programming languages, my previous and current interests, hackerspaces, etc. Make sure to check it out! 🙂

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GEB: An EGB overview (Part II)

This post is a follow-up to the first part.

However, before proceeding with the usual format as in the previous post, I will make a small comment.

I was very amazed by the first part of the book, so before starting the second part I viewed the book’s references. One book caught my attention: “What is the Name of this Book?”. So I ordered it and I read it. I found the book’s author’s style to be very similar to GEB’s style: puns, self-references, discussions about meaning, and paradoxes. So if you follow GEB’s references, you can almost see how GEB’s author’s style came to be.

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Spirit, Soul, Body

Similar to a previous book, I bought this book (1945) from the same Church, and in this blog post, I’ll write a short summary of the read. The author of the book is a medical doctor from the Russian Empire.

The book is a quick read, has about 140 pages, and reads very easily. It has a total of 9 chapters. It contains various verses and then explains them in medical layman’s terms.

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