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  1. Aug 2025
    1. Yacob opens up an enlightened discourse on the subjectivity of religion, while still believing in some kind of universal Creator. His discussion of whether or not there is a God is more open-minded than Descartes’s, and possibly more accessible to modern-day readers, as when he incorporates existentialist perspectives

      It's interesting to see how Yacob had this religious view in his life even though it feels like such a modern way of thinking.

    2. Henry David Thoreau was to describe a similar solitary life a couple of centuries later

      I would be really interested to know if there are more similarities between Yacob and Thoreau's ideas or experiences in their lives