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Wants to read The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing

Rated Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion 4/10

The author presents some interesting ideas, but nothing extraordinary, mind-blowing or perspective-changing. He needs a lot of words to make a simple point: often, empathy can lead to bad decision-making (in a utilitarian context) when compared to using rationality. There. Probably anyone who reads this book already agrees on this, because we all know why most NGO commercials chooses to show a sad-looking child in favor of a bar graph showing how funding is most effectively spend. <br><br>The author quotes a wide range of other philosophers, and adds very little to the epistemology himself. I'd recommend you to skip this book in favor of books like Peter Singer's 'The Life You Can Save' or 'Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference' - especially if you are more interested in the practical side of the argument against empathy.

Rated De duistere school 6/10

Finished reading A Clash of Kings

Rated Blauwe maandag 6/10

Finished reading The Tainted Cup

Finished reading A Game of Thrones

Rated De vliegeraar 8/10

Reading My Ántonia

Rated Broertje 6/10

Rated Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race 6/10

Finished reading Dagen als vreemde symptomen

Rated De Cock en een strop voor Bobby 4/10

Finished reading De kapiteinsdochter

Finished reading The Sailor on the Seas of Fate

Finished reading City of Miracles

Wants to read The Real World of Technology

Finished reading To Green Angel Tower

Finished reading The Summer I Turned Pretty

Rated Carrie 6/10

Finished reading A God of Countless Guises

Wants to read Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980

Rated Meditations 10/10

There are very few books I consider to have changed my life. This is one of them. (like many good books, you have to meet them at the right time; this hit me the second time I read it).<br><br>What I love about it is the intimate struggle of a man, a powerful man, born 2000 years ago but struggling with the same things we fight everyday. From the trivial ones like get up from bed, meeting annoying people, meeting smelly people, but also the existential one like being a good man, how to live a good life, and the nature of life and death.<br><br>Moreover, this edition is excellent. It uses a very modern language, easy to follow for a modern reader without a classical literature degree, and without being artificially convoluted.

Wants to read Coldwire

Finished reading The Song of Rhiannon