Nagel’s writing style is down to earth and plain, and he is easily understandable. However, I struggled to get through the introductory text, just like I struggled to get through philosophy classes in college. The reason is that Nagel writes in an academic, quasi-detached tone, and I find this fundamentally boring. I want to read someone who has suffered in the knowledge he has gained, bled and shed tears over it; Nagel is too antiseptic, he has not been initiated through pain in the problems he discusses - and for that, the beating heart and soul of what would make the material interesting is missing to me.

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