It’s a clear and mild spring afternoon. Sitting beside the stream and delighting in the smells, sights and sounds of early spring, the senses attune to the present, and become…
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Immanuel Kant
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In 1784 Immanuel Kant, responding to a general challenge by a clergyman and official in the Prussian government, wrote an essay entitled, “What Is Enlightenment?” Kant’s essay had great and…
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Even when I was in grad school in philosophy, I stayed away from Kant. Most philosophers think of him as the Everest of Western philosophy; my instincts told me that…
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“We are all Greeks,” the saying goes. It means that the Western mind was stamped in ancient Athens, and we cannot escape our heritage. Only by understanding its present movement…
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Since the beginning of civilization, and probably before, sages have said, “know yourself.” There is no truism more common, yet also more commonly ignored. Just what is self-knowing, and why…