"Malachias Invictus" <capt_malachias@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Lizard" <lizard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On 10 Sep 2006 09:22:03 -0700, "Bill Wayne" <HWayne@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> wrotC:DRIVE_E
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>>>I never quite understood this. Who in their right minds would get their
>>>views on life from a *movie*?
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>> Who in their right minds would get their views on life from a 4000
>> year old book?
>
> Excellent retort, sir.
Not really but I expect such mediocrity from you, Invictus.
Neither extreme age nor being in a book disqualifies excellence in
philosophy, even if it comes from a religious text. One can, after all,
take many insights about human life and culture from a great work of
literature like the Bible without believing in its theology, indeed, even
if one has a negative view of its ethics. The works of Shakespeare, the
Tao
Te Ching, and the Nicomachean Ethics, for example, are greater materials
to
build a worldview than the teachings of many parents and the pabulum that
comes out of many public, business, and law schools.
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