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The dream of a Liberal (arts) education—which is the scaled, democratic form of the Keatsian ideal of negative capability—cannot hold up when liberalism itself is held to be suspect.
Zohar Atkins • The Liberal Arts Are Dying Because Liberalism is Dying
“science is not a collection of truths,” but rather “a continuing exploration of mysteries.”
the hedgehog review • Mystery
Discourse on Method.
William B. Irvine • A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
I count myself among a growing number of scientists who believe that the construction of self identity is not much better than the Lo-fi representations of other people we hold in our heads.
Gregory Berns • The Self Delusion
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Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do
Those who choose to continue to see a person as a single monolithic entity held to high standards of coherence will only ever be responding to a fraction of the World of a person.
Ian Cheng • Emissary's Guide To Worlding
The psychoanalyst Philip M. Bromberg wrote, “Health is the ability to stand in the spaces between realities without losing any of them.
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
Stanford, I had the good fortune to study with Richard Rorty,