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>From: michael@psych.toronto.edu (Michael Gemar)
Subject: Re: MUST Philosopy be a Waste of Time?
Message-ID: <1992Feb9.205758.15155@psych.toronto.edu>
Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
References: <DIRISH.92Feb3142812@jeeves.math.utah.edu> <1992Feb4.213314.6821@psych.toronto.edu> <1992Feb9.041820.24110@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1992 20:57:58 GMT

>In article <DIRISH.92Feb3142812@jeeves.math.utah.edu> dirish@math.utah.edu (Dudley Irish) writes:
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>	Philosophy bakes no bread.

"Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.
It works in the minutest crannies and it opens out the widest vistas.  It
'bakes no bread,' as has been said, but it can inspire our souls with courage;
and repugnant as its manners, its doubting and challenging, its quibbling and
dialectics, often are to common people, no one of us can get along without
the far-flashing beams of light it sends over the world's perspectives.  These
illuminations at least, and the contrast-effects of darkness and mystery that
accompany them, give to what it says an interest that is much more than
professional."

William James, "Pragmatism", 1907

 

- michael



