Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned

On Fri, 30 May 2025 11:53:55 -0400 (EDT), kludge@panix.com (Scott
Dorsey) wrote:

Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

>
OK. Why would what I merely /consider/ to be reality have to be
factual? It isn't as if I am claiming it really is reality, only  that
I consider it to be. Or do you want me to prove that I really do
consider to be reality what I consider to be reality?

>
Immanuel Kant addressed this subject very effectively nearly two centuries
ago, and his work is worth looking up.  Schopenhauer expanded on it as
well.  It's not worth rehashing on Usenet.

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.

Still, in many places, it was well worth reading.

Whether it would satisfy lar3ryca <larry@invalid.ca>, whom I was
responding to, is a different question.
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Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"