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Daniel Stride
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Daniel Stride writes A Phuulish Fellow, a personal blog at phuulishfellow.wordpress.com about culture and writing. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Daniel Stride's blog is linked in comments that do not discuss its writing. The threads concern philosophy reading advice, Tolkien's politics and Plato's 'noble lie', which suggests the posts cover these topics.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Daniel Stride's Blog
Most-linked posts?
- /2019/08/18/a-platonic-reading-order/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-12-05
What Hacker News says?
There really aren't any must-read books, except for certain areas there are a bunch of must-read books, and none of them make a good entry point to the study and practice of philosophy. Like most mature fields, philosophy has a well developed body of theory, and jargon for discussing it, and understanding it often requires a decent knowledge of the history of philosophy (most philosophy is done in reaction to earlie…
Comment linking /2019/08/18/a-platonic-reading-order/
on “Ask HN: Learning about philosophy”Submitted Defending George R.R. Martin: A Reply to Reading Tolkien as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> Wasn't Tolkien also butt-hurt by the decline of the British Empire? In typical Russian apologist style (as evident by your comments), you resort to whataboutism, even without actually checking your accusations. Tolkien was conservative, but he was an anti-imperialist. "I love England not Great Britain and certainly not the British Commonwealth" – Letter 53 – December 1943 "I know nothing about British or American…
Comment linking /2017/04/12/tolkien-and-empire/
on “New Tolkien book, The Fall of Númenor, to be published”Essentially Plato is saying there is a concept of a "Noble Lie" that while untrue, could be told to society that results in a net improvement. His example is telling society that each person is imbued with the talent of Gold, Silver, and Bronze. The lie is that if people don't have the proper talent (soul) in each position, then their society will be overthrown. (eventually true but not as direct as told) So Silver…
Comment linking /2019/08/18/a-platonic-reading-order/
on “Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-optional push grows”