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The Hindu emphasis on inner life seems to many leaders of our generation, apostles of success and efficiency, a sheer waste of time. We are asked to go out and
The Hindu emphasis on inner life seems to many leaders of our generation, apostles of success and efficiency, a sheer waste of time. We are asked to go out and
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. (Poetics)
He who exercises his reason and cultivates it seems to be both in the best state of mind and most dear to the gods. For if the gods have any
Thus the One is in truth beyond all statement: any affirmation is of a thing; but ‘all-transcending, resting above even the most august divine Mind’ [Plato Republic] – this is
If there is no One, the others neither are, nor can be imagined to be, one or many. Nor yet, if there is no One, can the others be or
It is well to repeat constantly that man is a being who is full of contradictions and that he is in a state of conflict with himself. Man seeks freedom.
The Gospel is essentially – not accidentally – controversial. It is an attack on man who is his own centre. Divine truth wrestles with human falsehood, and man conceals himself
If we consider the philosophy generally predominant in the universities of today, we are struck by the miserable role that many philosophers themselves consign to philosophy. We are thinking of
It may be objected that philosophy cannot possibly have been rejected when there are today so many academic philosophers, so many intellectuals who are called philosophers, and so many books
It is at first sight a paradox but in reality it is the basis of the whole system, the ‘key’ and the ‘secret’: on the one hand, according to postmodernism,
In contemporary Western culture philosophy is in a state of collapse. This does not mean that philosophy has altogether died and is incapable of resuscitation. If that were so, if
The campaign against the ‘old’ conception of philosophy began in earnest four hundred years ago. At that time Francis Bacon made a radical proposal for altering the meaning of ‘philosophy’.