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Famous professional wrestler with an interest in philosophy dies–and it turns out he was a moron!

Philosopher Justin Tiehen (Puget Sound) writes to share this curious story:

You might be aware that the Ultimate Warrior, an extremely famous professional wrestler, died yesterday. (It's been in the news, and the guy was famous enough that people who don't follow wrestling at all are still sometimes vaguely aware of him.) Anyway, after retiring from wrestling he became a motivational speaker and life coach. For reasons that are somewhat opaque, this involved him creating a website where he posted a glossary of "the world's philosophies," with entries on behaviorism, consequentialism, deontology, existentailism, general semantics, and on and on. Just to give you a sense, here is the entry on Kantianism.

    "This is the exact opposite of Objectivism. It's epistemology is faith-eaten and mystic-    appeasing. It's metaphysics is subjective, it's ethics are altruistic and it's politics are     collectivistic. Kant created the exact opposite of what constitutes a philosophy based on     reason. His "argument" consists of equivocations, elaborate straw-men (the entire     Critique of Pure Reason for example), etc. He was quite an evil person."

As you can gather, the Ultimate Warrior was apparently a Randian. Many of his other entries also come from a Randian perspective.

And here is the Deadspin article where I learned about this all.

 

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