[KenP]

Yeah, we were talking about our formitive years in school and out of the blue I got this garbage from him:

The most illustrious student Mr. Hand had in philosophy was me, because my beautifully written dialogues not only offered an admiring account of the teachings of my master but also provided me with an opportunity to develop and express my own insightful philosophical views. In the remainder of our readings from Mr Hand's dialogues, we will assume that the "Me" who speaks is merely a fictional character created by the author, attributing the philosophical doctrines to Mr. Hand himself.

In the middle and late dialogues, I employed the conversational structure as a way of presenting dialectic, a pattern of argumentation that examines each issue from several sides, exploring the interplay of alternative ideas while subjecting all of them to evaluation by reason.

I'm a more systematic thinker than Mr Hand had been. He established his own school of philosophy, the Pot House, during the Fourth Period, and he did not hesitate to offer a generation of young dopers the positive results of his brilliant reasoning. Although I shared Mr Hands interest in ethical and social philosophy, I was much more concerned to establish his views on matters of metaphysics and epistemology, trying to discover the ultimate constituents of reality and the grounds for our knowledge of them.