Q&A: Reading Order
Reading Order
Question
I bought several of your books, and I wanted to ask whether in your opinion it is better to read them in the order they were published, or by topic as follows?
From what I understood from some of the posts here in the responsa section, the books that form the philosophical basis of your approach (which I also now own) are: 1) Two Carts, 2) Truth and Unstable, 3) That Which Exists and That Which Does Not, 4) Man Is Like Grass, 5) The Science of Freedom, 6) God Plays Dice (with a patach the meaning fits the intent of the book, while with a sheva the meaning is reversed—the opposite of the intent 🙂 ), 7) The First Existent.
What do you think of the above order? Will I miss something / understand less well if I read them this way?
Answer
The foundational ones are Two Carts and Truth and Unstable (there is quite a bit of overlap between them. Truth and Unstable also contains quite a bit from That Which Exists). Man Is Like Grass is similar to The Science of Freedom (the latter is more systematic). If you’re already reading all this, leave Truth and Unstable until after 4. The rest as usual.