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Exclusive Video 4: Dealing With Differences Between Summaries And The Actual Texts And Thinkers

what to do when the map you have doesn't reflect the actual philosophical territory

One way people get themselves into perplexities, confusion, and frustration when reading primary texts in philosophy is by approaching the text and author with fixed ideas about them in mind derived from secondary sources like summaries, textbooks, (inadequate) histories of philosophy, intro classes, and the like. They rightly note the discrepancy betwe…

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