[lit-ideas] Re: Most Influential Persons in History
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 20:51:00 -0400
> [Original Message]
> From: joerg benesch <jgruel@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> Date: 9/9/2006 11:38:10 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Most Influential Persons in History
>
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> "...Vernunft & Wissenschaft, des Menschen allerhöchste Kraft", says
> Goethe, "reason and science, Man's utmost power".
Science maybe. Reason is in a lock box buried under some kryponite in the
ice palace, and the key went missing. Don't have to worry about it being
unleashed on humanity anytime soon.
>What would Old
> Europe look like without the godlike Platon? and the astounding Kant?
>
Mmm, given that Old Europe wound up with some pretty major family feuds, it
doesn't seem like they could have done much worse without them.
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