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Neuroticism
- The Neurotic Personality of Our Time– Karen Horney –Summary - Man’s Search For Himself – Rollo May –Summary YARPP List ### Related posts: 1. Will It Fly Summary (7/10) 2. Modern Man in Search of a Soul Summary (8/10) 3. Part 2: Stir Up The Transgressive and Taboo (The Art of Seduction) 4.
- The Neurotic Personality of Our Time– Karen Horney –Summary
- Man’s Search For Himself – Rollo May –Summary
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Related posts:
- Will It Fly Summary (7/10)
- Modern Man in Search of a Soul Summary (8/10)
- Part 2: Stir Up The Transgressive and Taboo (The Art of Seduction)
- Chapter 19: And They Lived Happily Every After (Sapiens)
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Chapter 3: The Manufacture of Virtue: barter, trust, and rules after 50,000 years ago (The Rational Optimist)
> Looking around the world, there are plainly societies which manage their citizens’ lives well with good rules and societies which manage their citizens’ lives badly with bad rules. Good rules reward exchange and specialization; bad rules reward confiscation and politicking.
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Either/Or Summary (8/10)
In ‘Either/Or’, Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard offers readers a detailed analysis of human existence, complete with various thought experiments and passages of dense prose. Kierkegaard opens the book with a distinction between two ways of life that he labels the aesthetic and the ethical.
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Chapter 16: The Capitalist Creed (Sapiens)
Credit allowed people who did not have wealth, to make money. It is one of the greatest human inventions, but credit did not have such a glorious past. At one point, it was believed that the total amount of wealth was limited. When someone got richer, it meant that someone else got poorer.
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How to Read Walter Benjamin
**Walter Benjamin** (1892-1940): A German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic, and essayist. Benjamin’s diverse body of work includes commentaries on literary and philosophical texts, fragments on the philosophy of history and linguistics, reflections on aesthetics, arts, and literature.