THE MEANINGFUL THINKERS Plato ->(the evil) …………..-> (theologians) ……

THE MEANINGFUL THINKERS

Plato ->(the evil)

…………..-> (theologians)

…………………………………-> Kant

…………………………………………….-> Continentals (post-theologians)

…………………………………………………………………..-> Postmoderns

……….Aristotle -> (the good)

……………………-> (empiricists et al)

……………………-> Hume/Smith

………………………………………….-> Durkheim/Weber/Pareto

…………………………………………………………………………………-> Hayek

……………………-> Machiavelli..-> (machiavellians)

……………………-> (scientists of all sorts)

Seriously, in retrospect, you can eliminate everyone other than Aristotle/Machiavelli/Locke/Smith/Hume/Durkhiem/Weber/Pareto/Hayek in the study of man.

(IMPORTANT)

I am increasingly influenced by the Ying/Yang between those who generate opportunities (positives) and those who generate limits (negatives). And since all positives are hypothetical and only negatives testably true, it would make sense that over time, those who study limits would survive and those who envision opportunities decay with their times.

This is probably one of the more useful insights in the study of the history of thought: positives are temporal and particular, and negatives are intertemporal and universal.

Curt Doolittle

The Propertarian Institute

Kiev, Ukraine.