Bastard Grandson Adolf Hitler - Father of NAZI Racism

Submitted by Robert (United States), Nov 28, 2022 at 09:10

Paul Saunders, I did not understand where you were coming from until I reached Ayan Rand in your narrative.

I consider her a 3rd rate philosopher at best. She did not know much beyond Aristotle, as I vaguely recall that she admitted.

The philosophical wave in Germany was quite Rational, rather than Empirical as it was in England or the United Kingdom, and there was no philosophy on this Rational level in France or anywhere else. You confuse a single accident in German Austrian history with the Irrationality of of Philosophical History. Imagine if that particular Sperm had not linked up with the Egg of one of Hitler's ancestors, what would the world be like?

Instead of just reading Ayan Rand, and subscribing to her philosophical school of Objectivism I recommend that you actually read not only Kant, but his six predecessors, the three Empiricists and the three Rationalists (Lock, Berkeley, and Hume; and Spinoza, Descartes, and Leibniz). And also, I might add, another Empiricist Brit, Hobbes. Did I get the order correctly?

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