Worth the wait probably, maybe he shouldn't spoil the non-idea of reading the shitty translation now.

Then again he can probably read Germany anyways and is familiar enough with Hegelian concepts to not need help understanding.

Can only read English and Spanish. I was able to speak pretty decent German (child's level probably) when I was stationed there, but I was illiterate and there was absolutely no connection when hearing the words and seeing the words. I remember one of my very linguistic Dutch friends telling me how similar Dutch was to English and just not seeing it at all.

I'm pretty sure I'm done with languages. If anything I'll try to practice my Spanish enough to be more fluent. It has a lot more practical use than reading German for philosophy

Although, Nietzsche was a philologist by vocation and he said that the Germans, Greeks, and Indians we able to do such sophisticated philosophy so easily because they had languages more conducive to it than other cultures.

That is what I'm getting most interested in now, as far as topics to learn about goes, is language, its role in determining reality, and its use in ideology and particular in marketing and mass communication. My career is taking a very unexpected, entrepreneurial turn, and I think learning about marketing and mass communication is very important.

And I knows me some Hegel. We go way back. I actually read something recently that gave me a better understanding of what it was he was going on about. Still weird stuff in there, and I do think he was smuggling essence back into philosophy, which I think is what Stirner was talking about replacing gods with state and society, as Hegel practically deified the state as the agency people realize their freedom through...very authoritarian vision.

Oh, and I try to stick to Walter Kaufmann translations of Germans.

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Seems like a win-win. Each side should just be enabled to keep fighting until one punch-drunk boxer is left.

Repost but w/e hahaha

loooooooooooool

In other words ad hom, dodge, intellectual laziness, you cant refute the claims made. You are a constant pick 4 winner.



I never suggested they were all perfectly free countries without oppressive governments you support and want to emulate.
However they are not third world countries in absolute poverty as claimed, nor are the results of their differing economic policies negated due to that fact.
Graphing their results is not an endorsement of those countries governments..

I found your bit about rounding people up interesting.
Your hero was responsible for ACTUALLY rounding up minorities and throwing them in concentration camps. (you can choose which one, im sure there were a few, but i was alluding to FDR)

Lol, accusing somebody of lazyness while posting studies from Heritage. If you actually were interested in the subject and not just confirmation bias you would take a few courses in how to apply academic rigor and do an actual literature search on the subject.