User:Justinian of Byzantium

Influences: Voltaire, Thomas Paine, Friedrich Nietzsche,  Karl Marx,   Alexis de Tocqueville, Benedict de Spinoza, Bertrand Russell, Arthur Schopenhauer, Thomas Aquinas, Jean - Paul Sartre, Hannah Arendt, Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Cicero, Edmund Burke, G.W.F. Hegel, John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, H.L. Mencken, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Niccolo Machiavelli, Cesare Beccaria, Sigmund Freud, C.Wright Mills, John Maynard Keynes, John Locke, David Hume, Marcus Aurelius, John Dewey, William James, Emma Goldman, Dante Alligheri

My Beliefs: 

I am an Atheist and Empiricist

I am convinced the Religious Right in the United States are promoting a Fascist agenda

I love and strive to learn as much as I can about history

I have a very bleak view of Human Nature

I consider myself a Democratic Socialist and truly distrust Libertarians like Ron Paul

I also believe that a Majority of the American People are stupid

I need evidence to be convinced of something

I believe that the United States Constitution is a living document that adapts to changing values in a society

I believe in the absolute Seperation of Church and State

My Heroes:

Friedrich Nietzsche: he helped me become aware of the Herd mentality and my distrust of the masses

Bertrand Russell: his essay called "Why I am not a Christian", led me to become an Atheist

Voltaire: He inspired me to speak out, no matter what the risks are

C. Wright Mills: he made me aware of the power elite in this country

<p style="font-size:14.44444465637207px;">H.L. Mencken: His essays led me to become more cynical and distrustful of authority

<p style="font-size:14.44444465637207px;">Edmund Burke: He instilled a bit of Conservatism in me, and has given my pessismism of human nature

<p style="font-size:14.44444465637207px;">Karl Marx: He led me to socialism

<p style="font-size:14.44444465637207px;">My hobbies and Favorite Subjects:

<p style="font-size:14.44444465637207px;">Hobbies:

<p style="font-size:14.44444465637207px;"> Video Games

<p style="font-size:14.44444465637207px;"> Reading Nonfiction Books

<p style="font-size:14.44444465637207px;"> Reading Alternate History

<p style="font-size:14.44444465637207px;">Favorite Subjects:

<p style="font-size:14.44444465637207px;">Philosophy

<p style="font-size:14.44444465637207px;">History

<p style="font-size:14.44444465637207px;">My Favorite Historical Subjects:

<p style="font-size:14.44444465637207px;">Byzantine History

<p style="font-size:14.44444465637207px;">Chinese History

<p style="font-size:14.44444465637207px;">Greek History

<p style="font-size:14.44444465637207px;">French History

<p style="font-size:14.44444465637207px;">Russian History

<p style="font-size:14.44444465637207px;">My Interests in Philosophy:

<p style="font-size:14.44444465637207px;">Existentialism

<p style="font-size:14.44444465637207px;">Political Philosophy

<p style="font-size:14.44444465637207px;">Social Philosophy

<p style="font-size:14.44444465637207px;">Philosophy of Religion

<p style="font-size:14.44444465637207px;">Philosophy of History

<p style="font-size:14.44444465637207px;">Ethics

<p style="font-size:14.44444465637207px;">Metaphysics

<p style="font-size:14.44444465637207px;">Epistemology

<p style="font-size:14.44444465637207px;">Economic Philosophy