The comparisons
Objectivism next to
Every one of these was written under the same rule: state the other side well enough that somebody who holds it would nod. A strawman convinces nobody, and a reader who can tell we have not understood the philosophy we are dismissing will assume we have not understood the one we are selling either.
StoicismFree, all four parts
They agree on more than either camp admits, then split three ways. Twenty-two Stoic ideas, sorted into what matches, what is the same fact used backwards, and what cannot both be true.
Nietzsche
The most frequently mistaken ally. They admire the same person and disagree about what built him: he fills the empty place with will, she fills it with reason.
Utilitarianism
The greatest good for the greatest number means nothing until you say who is being billed. You cannot add up lives, because nobody experiences the total.
Marx
Alienation names something real and the labour theory of value does not survive contact with it. Hold the effort constant and the value still moves.
Postmodernism
Not the claim that nothing is true. The claim that our access to truth runs through language and power we did not choose — which is Kant's barrier, relocated.
Kant
He answered a real crisis, then treated how you see as a reason to doubt what you see — and treated benefiting from a good act as a reason to doubt it was good.
Four more are written and not yet published here: existentialism, nihilism, religious traditionalism, and the case against Objectivism itself.
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