tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post3557094283894791754..comments2024-03-29T08:19:26.011-07:00Comments on Edward Feser: The Newspeak of the modernsEdward Feserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13643921537838616224noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-14955298431101857592009-02-12T13:38:00.000-08:002009-02-12T13:38:00.000-08:00Nice post. Reading your blog has reminded me of m...Nice post. Reading your blog has reminded me of my long-time interest in Mortimer Adler--though I confess that as a busy general studies college teacher I have lacked the motivation to spend much time in the actual writings of Aristotle and Aquinas. <BR/><BR/>From Adler's first autobiography: <BR/><BR/>"All of the philosophical puzzles, paradoxes and pseudo problems that linguistic or analytical philosophy and therapeutic positivism have focussed their attention on in this century, and have tried to eliminate by inventing philosophical devices designed for that purpose, would never have arisen in the first place if the little errors in the beginning, made by Locke and Hume, had not gone unnoticed, but had been explicitly rejected" <BR/><BR/>Modern philosophy has never recovered from its false start. Like men floundering in quicksand who compound their difficulties by struggling to extricate themselves, Kant and his successors have multiplied the difficulties and perplexities of modern philosophy by the very strenuousness—and even ingenuity—of their efforts to extricate themselves from the muddle left in their path by Descartes, Lock and Hume. To make a fresh start, it is only necessary to open the great philosophical books of the past (especially those written by Aristotle and in his tradition) and to read them with the effort of understanding that they deserve. The recovery of basic truths, long hidden from view, would eradicate errors that have had such disastrous consequences in modern times." <BR/><BR/>Mortimer Adler, Mortimer Adler: Philosopher at Large (New York: Macmillan, 1977), 303-304).Ken Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08885690580428315349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-48515458087017215242009-02-11T09:52:00.000-08:002009-02-11T09:52:00.000-08:00Double plus good words about double ungood modern ...Double plus good words about double ungood modern philtinkering.Codgitator (Cadgertator)https://www.blogger.com/profile/00872093788960965392noreply@blogger.com