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Chriss Hammerschmidt's avatar

I can't wait for the curriculum. I need a high school to teach at. I've been reading the book, "America on Trial: A Defense of the Founding" by Robert Reilly, and he is following a similar path at the beginning of the book. First of all, why people leaned on mythology, then how the philosophers started changing the course with the idea of reason, and finally how Christianity was able to combine the idea of a God with the rational ideas of Socrates, Plato, etc. Very fascinating.

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Dave Walden's avatar

As you likely understand, Tom, you and I are in fundamental agreement on the importance of philosophy!

I discovered the knowledge that led to this understanding through reading Rand. Her fiction first, but then, seeking to understand the values of the various characters in her fiction, her body of work on philosophy. Her metaphysics, epistemology, morality, politics, and esthetics - particularly her ESSENTIAL INSIGHT(s) on morality!

From what I have thus far discovered, she is the first philosopher who has provided a moral defense for the political ideas we share. A rational moral defense of Jefferson's "right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness."

Keep up the good, needed, and unflinchingly NECESSARY work! If there is anything I might do to help in that regard, please let me know.

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