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PaperclipPerfector  10mo ago (text post)   3429 thread views

Small-Scale Question Sunday for June 25, 2023

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Would there be interest in a book review or summary of kantian philosophy and/or john locke's treatises? The goal would be to relate them to our current political situations under my own personal lens.

I find them to be incredibly prescient, even hundreds of years later, and the online material which covers them is only what can be gleamed by browsing wikipedia, and therefore rather shallow.

As long as the takes make some sense, I'd be delighted.

I’d love this, especially if it were written SSC style: plain English with actually insightful analysis that does more than summarize

I’m all for it.

Yes definitely. I don't know much about Kant or Locke myself but since they are rarely discussed here I'd imagine more people than you might expect will come out of the woodwork to discuss.

Yes, very much so.

Sure! In Eastern Europe and former Soviet countries people are familiar with Kant a bit better, as he influenced Hegel, which had a great influence on communism and dialectic materialism. In comparison, Locke, I feel, is much more influential in the anglo world (him being English and contributing to the early liberalism), so I'd like to read about his philosophy.

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