Call me a blasphemous amateur, it won't stop me from saying that in Western thinking the Continental Idealists and the Anglo-sphere of analytic empiricism all claim the testament to their heritage is in the Ancient Greece of Plato and Aristotle. So be wary of Greeks bearing Gifts. But there are distinctions to be made. From the Swedes, south through the People's Land of Germany and the novelists of Russia and Poland to La Belle Dame Sans Merci of Revolutionary France, these are The Continental Thinkers. The second theme is the small Island of Britannia, its attachments and memories, including the landmass of North America. These are the shopkeepers and chamber of commerce thinkers, practical minds that prefer not to talk with their hands and who would rather everyone else learn English. Chomsky is an Analytic Philosopher from the Americas who may have emerged from a clash between Behaviorism and the peculiar faiths of Anarchism, who found solace in humility and a distant contact with Kant's understanding of transcendence. Kant's transcendence submits us people to a structure that gives the phrase "I can't Help it" to both Lili Marleen's search for love, Chomsky's grasp of grammar or syntax and Kant's own understanding of morality.
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