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           so-called knowledge and perception is based on the mental
           platform. On that mental platform, one is simply pulled this
           or that  way by the material senses.  Therefore,  this talk of
           liberalism, open-mindedness, being free is just a royal edition
           of animals, as Śrīla Prabhupāda said.
           Western philosophy is nothing but footnotes of Plato’s
           philosophy. He was an atheist, especially when it came to
           moral law. Plato claimed that morality is not a law given by
           a personal God, and that ideal behaviour of people can be
           discovered  through  intelligence  as  there  is  no  authority  to
           teach us.

           The problem with this is when one is speculating and is not yet
           purified then from his heart comes all kinds of material desires
           and nasty things, and these influence one’s thoughts (lust,
           anger, greed, illusion, envy, and madness). Post-modernism
           especially considers that everything is what you make out of
           it by yourself.
           Nietzsche  (probably  the  first  post-modern  philosopher)  said
           that modern man has to remake his soul. It means everyone
           has to make an identity for oneself out of nothing. In other
           words it means – we become God. These concepts are of the
           modern dominant philosophy known as New Age, which
           considers Truth to be something you yourself discover by your
           own process.

           Jean Paul Sartre wrote a book ‘Being Out of Nothingness,’ and
           his girlfriend Simone de Beauvoir (the prototype of feminism)
           wrote a book ‘The Second Sex,’ but actually she drew her
           inspiration from Friedrich Nietzsche.

           Nietzsche said that people should be adventurous, experimental,
           dangerous and they should celebrate the body. In his moral
           system good is what heightens the feeling of power. And
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