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Books Many people have written to me asking what they

1. Brave New World Aldous Huxley
should read to properly educate themselves. Here
2. 1984 George Orwell
Podcast is a list of books that I found particularly inuential
3. Road To Wigan Pier George Orwell
in my intellectual development. I wrote number
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thirteen, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of 4. Crime And Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky

Speaking / Media Request Belief. It was published in 1999. It was heavily 5. Demons Fyodor Dostoevsky

inuenced by the authors of all the books listed 6. Beyond Good And Evil Friedrich Nietzsche
Reading Lists
below.
7. Ordinary Men Christopher Browning
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Trigger warning:These are the most terrifying 8. The PaintedBird Jerzy Kosinski

Classes booksI have encountered. 9. The Rape of Nanking Iris Chang

Research Papers 10. Gulag Archipelago (Vol. 1, Vol. 2, & Vol. 3)

In the lecture I includedwith this post (see below) I Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Self Authoring discuss the suIering inextricably associated with

11. Mans Search for Meaning Viktor Frankl
life,attributing some of it to tragedy, a necessary
Asera Dynamics 12. Modern Man in Search of A Soul Carl Jung
consequence of human limitation, and the
13. Maps Of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
Bible Series remainder to evil, the conscious and malevolent
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attempt to worsen Being. I suggest that human
14. A History of Religious Ideas (Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol.
beings can tolerate tragedy even triumph over it,
3) Mircea Eliade
if they are guided by truth but that evil is a far
15.AIective Neuroscience Jaak Panksepp
more insidious, subtle and damaging force.

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