Sometimes, these just come to me. Mostly because I disagree with something, and like to use words.
Monday, March 27, 2006
idealism vs realism
Ironically, Kant's " idealism" is more empirically grounded than his "realism" which seems much more speculative, being, as it is, based on imagination.
Philosophy/Political Thought on my shelf: On Law, Morality, and Politics, St. Thomas Aquinas Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle The Politics, Aristotle Confessions, St. Augustine Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes The Division of Labor in Society, Durkheim The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, Durkheim Leviathan, Hobbes An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Hume Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime, Kant Two Treatises of Government, Locke A Letter Concerning Toleration, Locke The Prince, Machiavelli The Marx-Engels Reader Essays, Montaigne Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche On the Geneology of Morals, Nietzsche The Republic (two copies), Plato Five Dialogues, Plato The Discourses, Rousseau The Social Contract, Rousseau The Wealth of Nations, Smith Deomcracy in America, de Tocqueville The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism, Weber
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