I think my thinking style is anti-Straussian. I approach famous thinkers by making up minimum-viable caricatures to put on my own maps.
And i do so using recent secondary sources, rather than exploring their mind palaces with reverentially from inside, via original sources.
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Yeah but it is really really rare for me to decide that’s worth doing
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Two examples: I read Hayek's "Law, Legislation and Liberty" and Tocqueville's "Democracy in America", in both cases because I was forced to as a university student—and it was amazing!
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