My favourite part about this site is not only do they have summaries that you can read in 30 minutes or so. But they have a super-compressed (or “very squashed”) version of the text, which is basically one large paragraph.
Check it out, learn something about philosophy today: Squashed Philosophers
(image from Squashed Philosopher’s site)
[tags]philosophy, Aristotle, Confucius, Ayn Rand[/tags]
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I’m appalled that you mentioned Aristotle and Confucius in the same breath as Ayn Rand. You can get a PhD in philosophy without ever mentioning or hearing Ayn Rand’s name. It’s a joke to put her on the same list as Aristotle, Plato, Hobbes, Newton, Kant, Turing…well, you get the picture.
That’s a really good site, much better than Sparknotes or Wikipedia. I never came across anything like that when I was in school. The closest I came were the Stanford and University of Tennessee encyclopedias in philosophy, but they’re actual articles.
I thought it was interesting that the author listed her as well, so I thought I would put it out there. Luckily it bothered you enough to comment, which means other people will be bothered too.
You’re right, it’s really the author’s problem, not yours. Sorry.