Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: HorowitzianConservative
. . .which Peikoff calls D2, i.e., the form of Kantianism that gave us non-objective art, quantum mechanics, and progressive education.

If this represents Peikoff's actual views, he is provably an idiot: quantum mechanics has nothing to do with Kantianism, non-objective art, or "progressive" education, except in the minds of muddleheaded post-modernists who don't understand it and erroneously think of it, on the basis of after-the-fact popularized descriptions, as denying the existence of objective reality.

It was certainly not "given" to us by Kantianism of any sort, but by objective reality itself: it's the best mathematical model we have of how weird matter and energy really are.

Again, assuming Peikoff's views are being faithfully reported, he seems the sort of nitwit who was taken in by Alan Sokal's Social Text hoax article.

11 posted on 07/23/2010 7:44:48 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: The_Reader_David

So I guess you disagree with Einstein then?


22 posted on 07/23/2010 8:03:50 PM PDT by NYCslicker
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies ]

To: The_Reader_David

Leonard Peikoff is Ayn Rand without the sense of humor.


69 posted on 07/24/2010 8:43:13 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (A woman is like an artichoke; you have to do a bit of work to get to her heart ~Insp. Clouseau)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson