Happy birthday to JRR Tolkien
Quick review on this week's readings:
Sep 23 “That To Philosophise Is To Learne How To Die” by Montaigne: 3/5 I worked with a John Florio. He did not write awkward translations.
Sep 24 Don Quixote by Cervantes: 3/5 Literature's greatest fanboy.
Sep 25 Themistocles by Plutarch: 2/5 This one felt more disjointed than a lot of the lives.
Sep 26 John Stuart Mills' Autobiography: 3/5 Dude really loved his wife.
Sep 27 "Thoughts" by Pascal: 0/5 Pascal makes Christianity look even worse than usual.
Sep 28 "Germ Theory..." by Pasteur: 3/5 Learning about germs and debate!
Sep 22 "The Sayings of Confucius": 3/5 Good as a companion to Meditations, etc. It's worth looking at similar texts from different cultures.
Average: 2.43 Great job, Pascal.
Overall Thoughts on The Project:
Pascal's take on Christianity is exhaustingly bad. I think that I'm overall a theistic-leaning agnostic, but nothing wants me want to be an atheist more than reading once every two weeks or so about how terrible humanity is and how we should all just give up and hope God will take mercy on us since we'll always be awful failures.
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