Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned

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.

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I don't think that is bad if they are good ethics. 
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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.

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