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- From: tp0x+@cs.cmu.edu (Thomas Price)
- Subject: Re: intro to phil
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.194038.251721@cs.cmu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 19:40:38 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul22.215955.11057@cis.umassd.edu> pmsc13sg@UMASSD.EDU writes:
- > article 1486 discusses a good intro to philosophy. I recommend
- >Atlas Shrugged and For the New intellectual by Ayn Rand, a contemporary
- >neo-aristotelian in radical opposition to Kantian nihilism and the use of
- >philosophy to symbolize misery. Her colleague, Leonard Peikoff, in his
- >Ominous Parallels, clearly outlines the basics of the history of philos-
- >ophy as part of his comparison bet/contemp. America and pre-Nazi Ger.
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- For a comparison between Weimar Germany & associated philosophy, and
- contemporary America, try also Allan Bloom's _Closing of the American Mind_.
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- > Mainstream of contemp. phil. is product of mind not connected to
- >real, like drunk in sleazy bar.
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- Is all such profound that I've forgotten how to use articles or noun forms.
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- >This is accurate, not wild.
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- !!
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- > Kant-I have limited knowledge therefore, to make room for faith.
- > Rand-Something exists of which I am conscious. i must discover its
- >identity.
- > make your choice
- > Caution-consider tart observation
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- Girl-watching is a fine third option.
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- Tom
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