I dont like cold approach

[Nilsi]

14 minutes ago, Ulax said:

@Nilsi First, note that I said it is a presumption, so it can be rebutted, and I'm open to being rebutted. 

Second, can you link me or let me know of a way to find a source about Tristan reading 1000s of book?

Thirdly, btw, I wouldn't see Peter Ralston and Byron Kate as necessarily people I would presume are well intellectually educated. And I wouldn't say that reading them helps one get more anything but nominally more intellectually educated.

Fourthly, I don't understand what worldview you are referring to in the phrase "strong grasp on this worldview" or what you mean by "shallow aspects of psychology".

Fifthly, I personally don't think its reasonable to assume he has read stuff like the books you describe. Why do you think it is very likely?

Further, even if one does read the 3 books you mentioned I still don't think that grounds a well rounded worldview. I think "The Selfish Gene" and "thinking fast and slow" could give high level perspectives in certain areas of empirical thought, but many more texts/ lectures from many for areas would need to be studied for me to see them as having a well developed world view. So they are no doubt part of developing a well developed worldview but cannot alone be seen as comprising one.

And I don't think the fountainhead adds, in the way its usually read, to much to the development of a well developed worldview as it presents only one philosophical view on the world, via the use of  philosophical fiction. I don't think that philosophy gives you a reliable understanding of how the world works, as that would, for me, be a matter to use empirical works to understand, rather than using a rationalist work. I think the fountainhead could certainly help improve one's worldview if seen as a means by which to understand a certain ideology that people use to understand the world.

 

I'm just naming some classic materialist books. I don't know what exactly they've read. Likely books on sales & marketing, popular science, self-help - stuff like that.

The worldview I'm talking about is some kind of social-darwinism/objectivism/utilitarianism - whatever you want to call it.

Also here's the clip:

 

[Ulax]

@Nilsi Okay I would lower the strength of presumption based on that clip for Tristan. I would like to know what books he read for I think he is an exception to the presumed view I made.

Okay, I understand now what set of beliefs you were referring to by worldview. I don't see how utilitarianism fits though. But that's a nominal point.

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