In the history of ideas, that line of "common sense philosophy" leads straight from Voltaire to the modern preachers and prophets of this perversion.
In it, he draws on history, political philosophy and straight economics to point out that higher alcohol taxes would fit squarely in the American tradition.
DC punks overwhelmingly subscribed to a temperance philosophy called "Straight Edge" which was promulgated by a band called Minor Threat who urged their followers to defy the socially mandated manhood rituals of alcohol and LSD consumption.
These patients were treated using the Roth gnathologic treatment philosophy and straight-wire appliance.
After all, it seems that his leadership philosophies are straight out of Africa.
This is why I dig hardcore and dumb-shit pop-punk the most, and don't care about the rest of it: it's very "work hard, then hang out" even if two philosophies like "straight-edge" and "drink beer, pull down your friend's pants, watch TV" are in conflict.
In the hands of the French existentialists, this means, as Bakewell puts it, a philosophy that goes "straight to life".
These sorts of philosophical concerns have continually infused his work, but when he published his book of straight philosophy, Constructions, in 1974, it met with a rather po-faced response from professional philosophers.
From a philosophical perspective you could try Antony Flew's "God and Philosophy", or go straight for the classics like Karl ("religion is the opiate of the masses") Marx, Friedrich ("God is dead") Nietzsche, Michael Martin, or Bertrand ("Why I am not a Christian") Russell.
My philosophy is serving straight-forward food using flavors and combinations that are both crazy and familiar.
