Textbook Sleep #35: Hegel's History of Philosophy

Welcome to Textbook Sleep, the Maximum-Strength Sleep Aid, where we read aloud boring public-domain textbooks to help you fall asleep.We have a doozy for you tonight—it’s going to be an especial challenge to stay awake as I read it.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s History of Philosophy is impenetrable. And it includes his opinions on all the most boring philosophers who ever picked up a quill. Descartes, Spinoza, Locke, Hobbes, Hume. It’s a soporific smorgasbord of dull.We begin by ringing the official Textbook Sleep bronze bell three times. It’s the signal that it is time to sleep—and soon, you will have no free will in the matter.This recording will end quietly. Get full access to Pieces of Jim at jimnolan1.substack.com/subscribe