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An intellectually stimulating book. He prefaced it with a “post-script/afterthought/retrospection” and mentioned what had escaped him in writing this book. I sense powerful insights from the way in which he composes sections. His understanding of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, et. al.

A bloody book!

We’re ruled by ideas;
Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Thomas R. Malthus;
The income of the people will hedge the line that is the necessary minimum level for survival & subsistence

Great quotations:
“ liberalism was a fabric which could not be raveled without being rent.“
“ every society must be protected from a to facile flow of thought.”
“Therefore we adhere, as though to a raft, to those ideas which represent our understanding… For a vested interest in understanding is more preciously guarded than any other treasure.”
Advocacy for originality is a substitute for originality.

Brutal

Good writing

4 Books of Hadith: 1) al-Kafi 2) Faqih 3) Tahdhib 4) Istibsar
Different Kinds of Acts: obligatory, prohibited, desirable, disliked, permissible
Hadith helps to understand how to balance human feelings & intentions

This was recommended to me by a friend, a PE coach in, and I am going to listen to the audiobook, excited and especially relieve after working through a long and extensive book from David Hume.

I will finish this by noon

Latin is so weird!