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I received two insightful comments by direct mail, and I'd like to share my responses:

Armstrong's bin and Schopenhauer's comments are both a sweet kind of sarcasm, only slightly sharper than Socrates.

Schopenhauer was a contemporary of Hegel, who was rockstar-famous at the time. Somewhere in his writings he actually called Hegel a charlatan. I think his comments about self-interest as the strongest argument had Hegel's dialectical nonsense in mind. Schopenhauer has been important to Nietzsche, Freud, and Einstein. And me as well, which puts me in awfully good company. He successfully brought the wisdom of the Hindu Vedas into Western philosophy. https://wegway.substack.com/p/armstrongs-bin

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