Wisdom is the fumbling substitute for perfect knowledge. [The American Story by Garet Garret, Henry Regnery Company, 1955 and made available as a pdf file on lewrockwell.com through the generosity of Lew Rockwell and his associates.] Ahhh, but what does it mean to know? In the old testament, “to know your wife” meant “to have … [Read more…]
I’m stumbling along with my project to enlarge and enrich our moral discourse by drawing upon the modern mountains of partially processed empirical knowledge, including some disturbing information about our inability to anticipate or prevent the development of evil in our own societies. I’m learning or relearning — at an elementary level — some of … [Read more…]
I’m slowly reading Hume’s A Treatise on Human Nature and trying to determine why I’m sympathetic to his general train of thought though I’m in opposition to some of his most important lines of thought. Maybe. It’s hard to say because he was trying hard to respond to empirical reality but he was somewhat entangled … [Read more…]