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To: Neocon who wrote (4196)	4/17/1999 11:09:00 AM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

<<I confess that I have a singular fondness for him, although I am "post- Kantian". I once wrote a paper on the affinities between Thomas Aquinas and Kant, by the way, and then discovered that there is actually a group calling themselves Transcendental Thomists... I have been too influenced by the existentialists to be a purist, but Kant is indispensable to any serious student of philosophy>> Kant is very difficult if not impossible to simply brush aside philosophically, I have to admit he is one of my favorites. The Second Formulation of the Categorical Imperative is one of the best moral formulations in history, IMHO. As to the Thomist connection, I think you'd be surprised at the influence the Catholic Fathers had upon philosophy. I have a History written by Bertrand Russel that first brought the connection to my attention. The Catholics are, as a whole, rarely touched upon unfortunately (unless you go to a Catholic university maybe ;). I myself tend to be influenced more by the British Empiricists than the Idealists, but Kant is as you said, indispensable. Ive never been much in for existentialism, except for a smidge of Sartre (radical responsibility), and he isnt properly an existentialist (and keep the real ones and their phenomenologist friends away, Heiddeger? Ack). I have a soft spot for Nietzsche, who had such a gift for clarity (though not in his writing style). Always stimulates me to think from a different perspective. Nietzsche's Truth and Lies in the Ultramoral Sense is particularly interesting in its implications (perception as deception? A lie which allows one to know greater truths? What a guy!) I could go on for pages, so I'll stop now. :)