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Azathoth123 comments on Rationality Quotes October 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Azathoth123 04 October 2014 07:24:59PM 6 points [-]

A "grand mistake" in philosophy has little ill effects.

Um, they've been known to result in up to a quarter of the world's population living under totalitarian dictatorships.

Comment author: Stabilizer 08 October 2014 07:43:34AM *  1 point [-]

Fair enough. Good examples: Hegel --> Marx --> Soviet Union/China. Hegel --> Husserl --> Heidegger <---> Nazism.