Adapted from New Statesman and Society.
1. What two books or authors had the greatest influence on your philosophical development?
2. Name one profound film, book, play, poem, and/or song that you would most like everyone to see, hear, or read.
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3. Which three philosophers, living or dead, do you most admire?
4. If you could visit any time in history for one week, which would you choose and why?
5. If you could pass or repeal one law, what would it be?
Feel welcome to cut and paste the questions with your answers in the comments.
1. Early influences? Aquinas and Sartre. Later? Aristotle and Heidegger.
2. I recommend :
– 12 Rules for Life (Peterson)
– The Road to Serfdom (Hayek)
– Two Treatises on Government (Locke)
– The Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
– Scaramouche (Sabatini)
Play: The Screwtape Letters
Poet: Wallace Stevens
Music: RUSH, 2112
3. I admire Ayn Rand & Whitehead.
4. I’d knock some sense into myself in 1994.
5. If I could pass or repeal one law, it would be The Capital Punishment For Oath Breakers and Vote Takers Act.