📚 3 Books mentioned in "Ronald Sullivan: The Ideal of Justice in the Face of Controversy and Evil | Lex Fridman Podcast #170" of Lex Fridman Podcast

but the the other book i was going to say is dostoevsky's crime and punishment and uh i mean i've always wanted to go to saint pete's uh just to sort of see with my own eyes what the word pictures that dostoevsky created in crime and punishment

The guest recommends this book by Dostoevsky, mentioning how it captured him as a teenager and is a text he returns to often.

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so uh i i'll give you a a couple uh so one is uh contingency irony and solidarity by richard wardy he's a he's passed away now but was a philosopher at some of our major institutions princeton harvard stanford um contingency irony and solidarity at least that's a book that really helped me work through um a series of thoughts

The guest, Ronald Sullivan, recommends this book by Richard Rorty (mispronounced as Wardy) as one that helped him work through philosophical thoughts about deeply held beliefs being contingent.

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and you know i love others of this stuff too the brothers care and myself and so forth but crime and punishment i first read in high school as a junior or senior and it is a deep and profound meditation on uh the the both the meaning and the measure of our lives

The guest mentions this book by Dostoevsky along with Crime and Punishment, indicating he loves it. The transcript seems to have misinterpreted the title.

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