Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2021-03-22
Books mentioned on #170 – Ronald Sullivan: The Ideal of Justice in the Face of Controversy and Evil
Ronald Sullivan is a law professor at Harvard and previously a lawyer for Harvey Weinstein and Aaron Hernandez. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Brooklinen: https://brooklinen.
Ronald Sullivan recommended Prophets of Human Solidarity by Richard J. Carbray, Contingency, irony, and solidarity by Richard Rorty, The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, and The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Prophets of Human Solidarity
Prophets of Human Solidarity by Richard J.
Recommended“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”
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Contingency, irony, and solidarity
Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity by Richard Rorty is a philosophical work that explores how liberal societies can maintain moral solidarity while abandoning absolute foundational truths in favor of radical contingency.
Recommended“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”
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The Souls of Black Folk
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Recommended“souls of black folk by w.b du bois uh was absolutely pivotal pivotal in my intellectual development uh one of the uh premier uh set of essays in the western literary tradition”
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Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a profound psychological novel that explores guilt, morality, and the severe consequences of moral relativism and nihilism.
Recommended“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”
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The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a complex philosophical novel that delves deeply into faith, doubt, free will, and morality through the turbulent relationships of the Karamazov family.
Recommended“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”
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