What's Motivating You With All This?

The preface is unhelpful. Don't you think the translator's introduction was helpful? Yes, ye didn't read that either. Oh, really. It was a good secondary source to set up what this essay was and places it in the context of the broader stream of his thought. Maybe next time when we circle back around in this west, you can read it. But you know, mark, what? This puts me in mind of how many times have we read something that were lectures that were transcribed, and said, oh, my god, if only so and so had written their master work in this style,. why do philosophers even write books? Why don't they just