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| Dec 14, 2013 at 19:27 | comment | added | John | Your last paragraph implies that in order to do real philosophy you have to understand other philosophers first - which is of course nonsensical as there had to be a first one. - Personally I reject Kant for another reason (I didn't even know that he said what you argue about in your text.): His duty-ethics. I'm pretty sure that this bit was way more instrumental for the disasters of the German idealist tradition than musings on the objectivity of reality. | |
| Sep 13, 2013 at 5:59 | comment | added | RationalGeek | You spend a lot of time debating between Aristotle and Kant, and then end by saying Rand is not internally consistent, without offering an example. Where is the internal inconsistency? | |
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| Sep 12, 2013 at 1:19 | history | answered | Gustav Decimus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |