ON THE VALIDITY OF THE BIBLICAL TEXT
Thomas Jefferson:
But the whole history of these books is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute inquiry into it: and such tricks have been plaid with their text, and with the texts of other books relating to them, that we have a right, from that cause, to entertain much doubt what parts of them are genuine.
WHITEHEAD ON READING KANT
Charles Hartshorne:
Whitehead once said that Kant’s Critiques should have been written in reverse order. This is because … Whitehead held that experiencing is primarily and primitively enjoying-suffering and only in special cases knowing; so that the theory of feeling, and hence aesthetics, not epistemology, is primary.
HUMAN "PROGRESS" AND NATURE
Charles Hartshorne:
“Are we making progress?” should not reduce entirely to “Are we coming to own more things?
RANDOM THOUGHTS WHILE READING ELISA GABBERT
Last fall my wife and I drove from Colorado into New Mexico. The direct route would have taken us over a high mountain pass; a predicted snow storm led us to drive a more circuitous route through Utah.
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G.E.M. Anscombe:
[Ludwig Wittgenstein] once greeted me with the question, “Why do people say that it was natural to think that the sun went round the earth rather than that the earth turned on its axis?
2023 BOOKS OF SUMMER
Cathy of 746books.com invites people to make a list of 20 (or 10 or 15) books that they plan to read during the summer months.
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