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From: mjr@well.UUCP (Matthew Rapaport)
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Subject: Re: The Impact of Inventions
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Except that one cannot predict before hand WHICH philosphers thoughts
(or which thoughts of any given philosopher) will so grab the times
as to have a major impact in the first place...  How could one predict
that the world was ready for Marx back in the late 19th century.  Why
did Dewy and James have such a strong influence on American education
and not Whitehead?  Why did Komenhi have such an influence on his
people while Teilhard and Buber harldy affected anyone outside
academic circles, etc...