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17 Mar 2011, 3:20 pm

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Given your penchant for childish emotionalism, you and Hume make good partners.

Any philosopher who could drive Kant around the bend is not to be disregarded.

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17 Mar 2011, 3:25 pm

What do you mean by 'drive Kant around the bend'?

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17 Mar 2011, 3:37 pm

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What do you mean by 'drive Kant around the bend'?

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason was a response to Hume's Inquiry on Human Understanding.

Hume caused Kant to go bonkers. We know that Kant did, because he come up with the bogus notion of the synthetic a priori.

All synthetic statements are derived from experience and are therefore a posteriori

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17 Mar 2011, 3:41 pm

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What does that have to do with Peikoff?

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17 Mar 2011, 3:41 pm

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I never understood why that book is so popular. It's an interesting read, but it didn't make much of a lasting impression on me

I think it depends on the individual. I have been into military history and strategy for a long time, and I find that the lessons of The Art of War are applicable to real life situations. Its a lot of metaphor I suppose, but I rather like it.

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17 Mar 2011, 3:56 pm

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I never understood why that book is so popular. It's an interesting read, but it didn't make much of a lasting impression on me

Oh okay, that makes sense. From that point of view the book should be fantastic.

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All synthetic statements are derived from experience and are therefore a posteriori

I still think that our existence is an a posteriori which can be known with a priori certainty.

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17 Mar 2011, 5:10 pm

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What does that have to do with Peikoff?

Read L.P.'s essay "The Analytic-Synthetic Dichotomy"

L.P. is not even a first rate second rate philosopher. He is a third rate second rate philosopher.

Ayn Rand was a first rate second rate philosopher.

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17 Mar 2011, 5:21 pm

@ruveyn:

What does the relationship between Kant and Hume, as you describe it, have to do with Peikoff?

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L.P. is not even a first rate second rate philosopher. He is a third rate second rate philosopher.

Ayn Rand was a first rate second rate philosopher.

I am not interested in your opinions. If you care to make a statement that is debatable, I'm all for it; but I could care less about baseless statements, that add no value to the subject of discussion.

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17 Mar 2011, 5:30 pm

Vigilans wrote:

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I never understood why that book is so popular. It's an interesting read, but it didn't make much of a lasting impression on me

If you are looking a truly awesome work on military history I recommend 'A History of Warfare' by Montgomery of Alamein. He was not a particularly good general but his work was pretty much the manual for conventional warfare for the modern officer.

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17 Mar 2011, 9:49 pm

1) Ai. How that man did what he did without anyone knowing, is a masterstroke. That and marrying 'the most beautiful woman to ever live'. Full marks.

2) Does Kierkegaard count?

3) Dostoyevsky every moment of every day. An excellent choice, my friend. Find a better novel than any of the five greats he wrote, and I'll laugh at you.

4) The Rolling Stones, Beethoven, Toscanini, Yeats, Carson McCullers - rightly considered the female Dostoyevsky

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18 Mar 2011, 3:17 am

I am my own hero.

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18 Mar 2011, 3:45 am

Ooh, so many good and interesting answers.
1-4)Carl Sagan.
3)Also Barbara Kingsolver, who writes beautifully and with heart.

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18 Mar 2011, 7:55 pm

1. Who is your secular hero?

Ruveyn

2. Who is your religious hero?

Iamnotaparakeet, Angelrho

3. Who is your literary hero?

Frank Baum

4. Anyone else for special mention?

Hans Asperger

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