I recently got interested about the Age of Enlightenment, and more specifically Voltaire - and would like to read some of his works to understand him better....
While waiting for someone who's more familiar with Voltaire, Nicholas Cronk's interview provides some context to Voltaire's career and gives some book recommendations. The two primary works he recommends are Candide and A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary. He explains his reasoning for both pretty well.
Fwiw, if you're just looking to start reading Voltaire, I don't think you'd go wrong reading the Candide. It's an enjoyable, short, and funny satire. The only context you may want first is Voltaire is largely responding to a view around in his time commonly called 'the best of all possible worlds'. This article explains that a bit better
If you're looking specifically for his philosophy, the SEP contextualizes what Voltaire has written and where. Its bibliography has primary sources, so you could always start with the one that you find most interesting
So here is the issue, I use Google Drive because I am a writer who does a lot of writing. And I thought the cloud was a reliable way to store my writing, however now Google is looking through it’s to train their ai. And I’m worried about that, especially since I have written a lot of questionable content, porn and the like....
Others have already mentioned other cloud storage options, which are good because they both synchronize your writing and also give you a backup in case something goes wrong.
If you already have a backup solution, you could consider syncthing. It keeps folders on several different devices up to date without storing a copy in the cloud somewhere. It's free but takes some setting up
You could also compress your files into a zip, add a password, and then store it in google drive. You can't do online writing and it'd be a hassle to re-encrypt them each time you make a change but google wouldn't be able to scan your docs and you could restore your writing if something goes wrong on your local computer
Some thoughts about using the Microblog functionality in kbin and why, controversially, I think it might actually beat Mastodon at it's own game - browsing toots....
This is working great -- didn't know subscribed had a microblog feature, thanks.
I've been playing with subscribing to gup.pe groups as well, and they show up in subscribed microblog. E.g. subscribing histodons@gup.pe pulls in most mastodon posts for history.
In this lecture Bergo presents a really interesting survey of how anxiety has been understood through the history of philosophy. Special attention to how Schopenhauer and Darwin use the term. the audio is bad, but I found it worthwhile....
Voltaire 101
I recently got interested about the Age of Enlightenment, and more specifically Voltaire - and would like to read some of his works to understand him better....
google drive, getting away
So here is the issue, I use Google Drive because I am a writer who does a lot of writing. And I thought the cloud was a reliable way to store my writing, however now Google is looking through it’s to train their ai. And I’m worried about that, especially since I have written a lot of questionable content, porn and the like....
Browsing the wider fediverse from kbin
Some thoughts about using the Microblog functionality in kbin and why, controversially, I think it might actually beat Mastodon at it's own game - browsing toots....
Bettina Bergo: The Ambiguity of Anxiety" (www.youtube.com)
In this lecture Bergo presents a really interesting survey of how anxiety has been understood through the history of philosophy. Special attention to how Schopenhauer and Darwin use the term. the audio is bad, but I found it worthwhile....