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Untamed by Glennon Doyle

Untamed by Glennon Doyle is very underwhelming. Although it is touted as disrupting the status quo and rejecting the programming little girls experience to fit into a patriarchal society, it does not. It is written in neat anecdotes that use cliched prompts of living bravely and finding freedom which works fine for a particular demographicContinue reading “Untamed by Glennon Doyle”

The Enigma of Reason by Hugo Mercier, Dan Sperber

This book contends with the question of what makes us human by taking us through the history of philosophical ponderings from Descartes to Martin Luther King, from Hermann von Helmholtz to Nietzsche. The authors step us through their theory regarding the purpose of reason and why it developed in humans. Examples demonstrate why we workContinue reading “The Enigma of Reason by Hugo Mercier, Dan Sperber”