Alex O'Connor
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard 25 May
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Agreed.
I think it's kind of the other way around.
I like that.
Yeah, I like that.
And I think that the best... Ludwig Wittgenstein, in his Tractatus, which is like a sort of very sort of mathematical, quite short work, has this introduction saying,
And the first words he writes are, this book may only be of use to people who already agree with its contents.
And I think that's so fair enough.
This might seem like a weird thing to say in response to your question, but I don't think people just read a philosophy and become convinced by it.
I think they hear somebody put something they already kind of think in the right words and they go, yes.
Yeah, that's what I think.
Which is why I think people are sometimes a little bit confused if they want to get into philosophy.
they look up the 100 best philosophers and they think, okay, let's go and learn about it.
And just out of the blue, it says, oh, you should go and read like Jean-Paul Sartre.
Okay, so they pick it up and they read it and they're like, I don't really get this, you know?
Oh, this doesn't make much sense to me.
They read Spinoza and they're like, what are you talking about?
It's a bit mathsy.
I don't really understand, right?
And it's because that's not how philosophy is supposed to be done.
People sometimes ask me, where would you recommend I start?
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