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Originally Posted by JJRousseau
The Social Contract made the most sense to me. I know my Libertarian brothers would spit up their exploited-worker-made-wine and tell me to read more Nietzsche, but I guess that's why I'm only a 2.5 on the Economic scale...
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Well, th Social Contract is not a perfect treatise, but the clarity with which he puts forth the concepts makes the work worthy of, at least, consideration.
As for your friends and Nietzsche, it is possible to mix philosophy with political science and sociology as they are not uncomfortable bedfellows. In fact, here is one of my favourite quotes by Nietzsche that, I think, fits here:
"Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is so timid and dislikes going into the water."
-The Gay Science
Yet the Scoial Contract is both clarity defined, and so deep as not to have a visible bottom, so therein lies an interesting paradox.
Anyway, this is now WAY off topic, but I just can't help myself when these fantastic threads appear, or others like the Lament of a Nation thread erlier. I could see myself talking about this stuff over a good single-malt with JJ, Ace, Charlatan, Antikarma and a bunch of others someday. Who knows?
Peace,
Pierre