About Me
My name is Sascha Settegast, I am a 21 year old student of philosophy and history at the University of Trier, Germany. Additionally, I am a participant in the OAC’s undergraduate program.
I was born in April 1986 in Stralsund, a town near the Isle of Ruegen, in the communist German Democratic Republic. After the Downfall of Communism, my family moved to Southern Germany, where I went to school. I graduated in 2005 and went on to study philosophy and history, which I have been doing ever since.
My first encounter with the philosophy of Ayn Rand was while reading her “Capitalism: The Unkown Ideal” sometime in the fall of 2003, I believe. I have committed a great deal of time and effort since then, in order to grasp her system and apply it to my own life.
A special interest of mine lies with the theory of civilization. It is such a complex and all encompassing subject, integrating immense sums of knowledge from all possible fields, that I feel it to be a worthy challenge.
The purpose of this blog is to share some of my thoughts and philosophic ideas. Usually, I blog with an Objectivist frame of reference. I do not and cannot, however, claim to be representative of Ayn Rand’s philosophy, since I am just a student of Objectivism so far, and still got much to learn.
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johannmayr | February 3, 2008 at 11:03 am
Say, visiting your own blog every day?
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Sascha Settegast | February 3, 2008 at 2:38 pm
No. However, I get a message everytime someone leaves something here.
I guess, the best thing, then, really would be the correspond via email.
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Burgess Laughlin | March 23, 2008 at 5:01 pm
Congratulations, on two counts:
1. For choosing a fascinating double field of study: philosophy and history, the realm of the widest abstractions and the realm of the narrowest particulars.
2. For integrating them, if I have understood you correctly, into a clear central purpose in life–to study theories of civilization, and formulate your own someday.
A CPL based on such an integration is breathtaking and perfectly logical.
I wish you well and a long-life. With the years, knowledge accumulates, and the range of one’s vision–of the past, present, and perhaps even the future–expands accordingly.