Does Einzige remind you of jmfcst?

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I generally try to read Einzige's posts. He has a way with language. His only real problem is that he probably cares too much.

^^^^^

He's probably overeducated aswell. But I'm like that too; except I don't think Max Stirner if someone worth basing one's ideas on.

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I generally try to read Einzige's posts. He has a way with language. His only real problem is that he probably cares too much.

Did you read this?

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=94689.msg1963512#msg1963512

I did now.

You made it through that whole post? I couldn't make through the first paragraph. More unreadable than ANYTHING I had to read in college.

Yeah, at first I was like... no way... but then I gave it a shot. His basic ideas are actually pretty simple and not really new. He just chooses to use a lot of flowery language. He's still probably a better writer than 85% of the people on here though and we have some decent ones.

Actually yeah, he is a very good writer. Among other things.

I would disagree with this (very strongly; the world doesn't work like that), but he is a better arguer than most people here; well at least when he wants to be.

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Btw, BRTD what books exactly did you read in college?

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I'm referring mostly to textbooks that included compilations of a lot of writings from various people. I did read a few "classics" of course, Plato's Republic, Machiavelli's Prince, but that's not what I'm referring to here.

I'm amazed that Einzige's commentary was the most difficult thing you've read... for god sake man, don't they get you to read 20th Century Philosophy or literature these days.

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I'm referring mostly to textbooks that included compilations of a lot of writings from various people. I did read a few "classics" of course, Plato's Republic, Machiavelli's Prince, but that's not what I'm referring to here.

I'm amazed that Einzige's commentary was the most difficult thing you've read... for good sake man, don't they get to read 20th Century Philosophy or literature these days.

     I know. Rorty is much harder to read than anything I've seen on this forum.

I've not read Rorty, but for this case I would recommend Heidegger and Derrida as perfect light reading... lol.

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I'm referring mostly to textbooks that included compilations of a lot of writings from various people. I did read a few "classics" of course, Plato's Republic, Machiavelli's Prince, but that's not what I'm referring to here.

I'm amazed that Einzige's commentary was the most difficult thing you've read... for good sake man, don't they get to read 20th Century Philosophy or literature these days.

     I know. Rorty is much harder to read than anything I've seen on this forum.

I've not read Rorty, but for this case I would recommend Heidegger and Derrida as perfect light reading... lol.

Those fellows aren't exactly popular in American Philosophy departments, though literary critics like them a lot.

People like Hilary Putnam and John Searle are much easier reads.

I know (and social scientists except economics); but as I've been trailing the roads of the philosophy of
social science recently, they are some that are mentioned. Though Searle is aswell; I have The Construction of Social Reality with me, though I admit with work I haven't got a chance to read it yet.