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To: Dayuhan who wrote (13611)	5/16/2001 8:32:52 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

How can you possibly say what "deep thought" was for Hegel or Kant and who told you they were "great thinkers". There is no way to contribute an "original perspective" to something as concrete and moribund as the thinking of Hegel and Kant. Of course if you believe they are great by the amount of corpses left in the wake of their ideas I'd have to agree with you. Rousseau and his social contract led to a little tiff called the French Revolution, that blood bath may have been justified.

To: Dayuhan who wrote (13611)	5/17/2001 12:32:36 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I agree that if one can contribute something original, that is good. I also agree that regurgitation is not the same as thinking through the implications of something. Finally, I agree that even someone who is wrongheaded in many respects may make positive contributions by raising the right issues or embedding suggestive but underdeveloped ideas in his work. All that I object to is making originality the touchstone of the value of an idea when truth is more important.......