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From: Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid>
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Subject: Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned
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On Sat, 31 May 2025 11:57:05 -0400 (EDT), kludge@panix.com (Scott
Dorsey) wrote:

>Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>>I read Kant when I read the collection known as /The Great Books of
>>the Western World/. It took a while, but eventually it became clear:
>>he was propping up Western culture on a secular basis. This is why he
>>ends up with the same-old same-old ethics.
>
>I don't think that is bad if they are good ethics. =20
>
>But I was not talking about his discussion of ethics, but his discussion
>of reality vs. perception and the phenomenal vs. nouminal world.

Indeed.

But those also appeared to me to be attempts to replace, say,
Aristotle with modern terminology. To re-base everything, without
changing anything.=20

But I could be very wrong, who can say?
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"