Is academia's fetish for primary sources just a relic from Protestant Reformation ideology?
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Replying to @lumenphosphor
They make sense for historians, but why do philosophy professors care so much about primary sources? Secondary summaries are usually better
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I strongly prefer consuming technical ideas in the context in which they were discovered
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it lends lots of signals toward "what was actually hard about this idea?" That get whitewashed out of e.g textbooks
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Replying to @BagelDaughter @lumenphosphor
will go along confused by a textbook explanation because it doesn't provide discussion of the philosophical hurdles involved
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Replying to @BagelDaughter @lumenphosphor
then read the original paper, or the notes, or arguments or discourse, and have my confusion validated and explained
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