Q&A: The Analytic-Synthetic Quartet
The Analytic-Synthetic Quartet
Question
Hello Rabbi,
If I’ve read the Trilogy of Thought, my Yedioth books, and many columns here on the site, is there still a point in reading the Analytic-Synthetic Quartet? Or would the points that feel new to me only be sporadic?
Answer
The basic overall move will be familiar to you. But most of the quartet deals with implications and ramifications. I don’t know how to answer.
Discussion on Answer
In my opinion the quartet is very highly recommended (and at the top of the list is the first book). It doesn’t seem to me to overlap all that much with the trilogy. Two Wagons is richer and more explicit than Truth and Stability. For That Which Is Present there isn’t really much of a parallel (Playing with Dice is different). The Sciences of Freedom perhaps makes it possible to skip Humanity Is as the Grass. The Spirit of Law has no parallel.
Anyone from the audience who read the quartet after the trilogy and the Yedioth books?