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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Now Available: Volumes I, II, III, and IV of the Collected Published and Unpublished Papers.
Now Available: Volumes I, II, III, and IV of the Collected Published and Unpublished Papers.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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About Me
- Robert Paul Wolff
- 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.
4 comments:
You have my sympathy, although compared to you I’m just a kid—a mere 78. My daily memory crisis revolves around whether I’ve taken my bedtime pills. I can take them, and five minutes later not recall whether I did or not. Most of them aren’t all that critical, but a blood thinner is. If I screw that up, they start tinkering with the with dosage and the phlebotomists come after me as if I were a piñata.
I hope you have more comments on Rawls. The discussion already is way over my head (I thought Cardinal referred to a ball team in St.Louis), but I hope to learn from it. Intuitively I like Rawls. I think public policy in this country would be much better off if policy makers put themselves in the original position before deciding an issue. I also wish Rawls had had a good editor. If his former student, Thomas Nagel, had written Theory, it would have been one-third the length and much more readable.
"First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down".
Leo Rosenberg
Somebody told me to say, "Taking my pills" out loud. Works like a charm.
Thanks for the tip. I'll try it.
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