Who is admired by Fidel Castro?

[Jester]

Kind of different. Obama is a leader of a country and so is Fidel, or was. This is different from Fidel liking a phylosopher, artist or actor as they are both of the same profession.

I can't see how. Your argument has nothing to do with professions. And in any case, Fidel is now retired, and spends his days putzing around and writing articles. Raul has taken control of everything that matters.

Gee, I wonder if that was the reason Hitler liked him? Naaaah, can't be.

BTW, is that why you like him also?

I didn't actually say I liked Schopenhauer, but thanks anyway for the cheap shot. I said that Hitler admiring him does not change my opinion of him. People are to be judged on *themselves*, not on what other people think of them.

Schopenhauer's ideas were not particularly strange for his time. His anti-semitism would have been widely shared, and not just by crazies like Hitler. Finding Europeans who did not have some idea of a hierarchy of races and civilizations in the early 19th century was rare, and he was at least anti-Slavery, a position that puts him alongside Lincoln or Darwin. And almost all of these same themes (notably without the anti-Semitism) can be found in Nietzsche, whom Hitler didn't like. Would Hitler's dislike change your opinion of Nietzsche?

This all seems like a very empty exercise.

-Jester