This strikes me as a good sort of constructive feedback, but one that didn’t apply in my case, and I’ll try to explain why. Thinking real instead of fake seems like a canonical example of rationality that is especially contingent upon emotions and subjective experience, and intervening on that level is extremely tricky and fraught.
In my case, the copious examples, explanations of why the examples are relevant, pointers to ways of avoiding the bad/getting at the good, etc. mostly seemed helpful in conveying the right pre-rational mental patterns for allowing the relevant rational thoughts to occur (either by getting out of the way or by participating in the generation of rational thought directly).
It was also simply enjoyable throughout, in a way that harkened back a little to when I would read C.S. Lewis as a still-religious teenager. Not imitation of Lewis’s writing, but rather pointing in the direction Lewis was trying to point (toward truth, beauty and goodness). This last element seems potentially load bearing, in that I don’t know whether I’d have found the continuous details helpful if I hadn’t found them intellectually pleasant in this particular way.
This strikes me as a good sort of constructive feedback, but one that didn’t apply in my case, and I’ll try to explain why. Thinking real instead of fake seems like a canonical example of rationality that is especially contingent upon emotions and subjective experience, and intervening on that level is extremely tricky and fraught.
In my case, the copious examples, explanations of why the examples are relevant, pointers to ways of avoiding the bad/getting at the good, etc. mostly seemed helpful in conveying the right pre-rational mental patterns for allowing the relevant rational thoughts to occur (either by getting out of the way or by participating in the generation of rational thought directly).
It was also simply enjoyable throughout, in a way that harkened back a little to when I would read C.S. Lewis as a still-religious teenager. Not imitation of Lewis’s writing, but rather pointing in the direction Lewis was trying to point (toward truth, beauty and goodness). This last element seems potentially load bearing, in that I don’t know whether I’d have found the continuous details helpful if I hadn’t found them intellectually pleasant in this particular way.