Oakeshott on Science as a Mode of Experience
ZYGON — Vo. 44. Issue 1, pp. 169-196. Byron Kaldisexperience and its modesIdealismMichael Oakeshottscience and religion
ZYGON — Vo. 44. Issue 1, pp. 169-196. Byron Kaldisexperience and its modesIdealismMichael Oakeshottscience and religion
Very nice indeed. I was expecting something cloying sweet and too heavy for a blistering day — this was just right with what seemed like a sherry finish. alcoholBeerLickinghole Creek
He reproached me for two other things: my absentmindedness and my tendency to laugh at the most serious matters. When it came to absentmindedness, he differed from me because he kept a little notebook in which he jotted down everything he wanted to remember, reviewing its pages several times daily. In this way he thought…
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Until recent years, I read only “fundamental” books, that is, key books on key subjects, such as War and Peace, the novel of novels; A Study of History, the solution of the problem of time; Schroedinger’s What is Life?, Einstein’s The Universe as I See It, and such. During those years I stood outside the…
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The zeitgeist. 1984big brotherDavid Bowieorwell
ZYGON — Vo. 44. Issue 1, pp. 153-167. CervantesDon Quixoteexperience and its modesF. H. BradleyGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelIdealismMichael OakeshottMontaignescience and religionstoicismTimothy Fuller
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As a true paterfamilias, my father knew how to defend his peace and quiet. He possessed this peace and quiet both in his house and in his soul. The only books he read were bland and moral, not out of hypocrisy on his part, but from the most genuine conviction: I think he felt deeply…