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A Commentary on the Passing Scene by Robert Paul Wolff rwolff@afroam.umass.edu
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The following books by Robert Paul Wolff are available on Amazon.com as e-books: KANT'S THEORY OF MENTAL ACTIVITY, THE AUTONOMY OF REASON, UNDERSTANDING MARX, UNDERSTANDING RAWLS, THE POVERTY OF LIBERALISM, A LIFE IN THE ACADEMY, MONEYBAGS MUST BE SO LUCKY, AN INTRODUCTION TO THE USE OF FORMAL METHODS IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY.
Now Available: Volumes I, II, III, and IV of the Collected Published and Unpublished Papers.
Now Available: Volumes I, II, III, and IV of the Collected Published and Unpublished Papers.
NOW AVAILABLE ON YOUTUBE: LECTURES ON KANT'S CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON. To view the lectures, go to YouTube and search for "Robert Paul Wolff Kant." There they will be.
NOW AVAILABLE ON YOUTUBE: LECTURES ON THE THOUGHT OF KARL MARX. To view the lectures, go to YouTube and search for Robert Paul Wolff Marx."
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- As I observed in one of my books, in politics I am an anarchist, in religion I am an atheist, and in economics I am a Marxist. I am also, rather more importantly, a husband, a father, a grandfather, and a violist.
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It's spam, just as in e-mail. The spammers are hoping that you'll be less likely to delete the links if they say nice things. You should be like Socrates in the Gorgias, though, and have no mercy for flattery.
If you're referring to my comment the other day - it was gushy, I'll admit, but I am not advertising anything! For some reason your blog that day just provoked this gushy and somewhat vague response in me. I am a long-time reader and admirer of your blog. And I am a real person!
Tim, I am suitably chastened! I was in fact not referring to you, but to a whole lot of such comments that end with a link to something or other. This modern world is really weird. I am accustomed to seeing and hearing the people I am talking with. I guess that just shows how old fashioned I am. Now, if you will excuse me, I have to go out back to the outhouse, and then get a block of ice for my icebox. :)
Ah, OK. At any rate, scepticism about what people are saying to you online is warranted and sensible..
You shouldn't keep your icebox in the outhouse. That's unsanitary, that is.
The first time I got one of those, I fell for it and replied politely. Then a fellow blogger set me straight. Ways to deal with the freeloaders are: (1) delete, delete, delete (which gets boring); (2) make people jump through hoops to leave comments (which discourages many of them; (3) tighten your spam filter. Look under Posts and Comments in the section called Settings. Spammers are an aggravation, and who needs more aggravation?
(I gushed over your blog to the friend who originally sent me a link, but you'll never know what we said in our e-mail!)
I confirm that these types of spam comments is one of the usual pitfalls of blogging.
Be careful of clicking on the links too. You could be sent to a virus or rootkit trap that could do damage to your computer. The best way to check an internet address put up by one of these spammers is to put it in google. That will tell you what they're peddling if that's what they're doing and allow you to make an informed decision about whether to delete it. But I'd be wary of clicking on any old link. I've gotten viruses and rootkits that way.
Even little ole me gets these gushy things on my blog. According to my computer guru, these gushy (and they are, generally, quite general) as in "That was great!" - are efforts to get their web site linked to another web site of substance. Not sure how you handle comments, but I just refuse to accept them as legitimate commentary. In my case, they seem to come in bunches!!
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