Epstein Secrets

wledge known only to you involves relying on com- monly known rules about causation. What about prediction? You can believe that New York will beat Philadelphia in football. You can predict it based on evidence. You can explain the cause and effect that have made you come to this point of view. But, after New

elligence All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. —Immanuel Kant What is school for? A common answer is, to make people more knowl- edgeable. Another is, to socialize them and prepare them for living with others.

stmas of December of 1787, Thomas Jefferson sat down in Paris to write a letter to James Madison.*? Madison was on the other side of the Atlantic, in Philadelphia, and struggling with refinements to the new American constitution, which had been drafted in the spring and summer just passed. The two men were freq

nced confidently (and absurdly) at the Council of Trent in response to Luther’s Reformation. But there was no turning back. As the German philosopher Immanuel Kant wrote, the motto of the era could best be summarized as: Dare to know! “The Enlightenment,” he explained, “requires nothing but freedom.” This, it e

stein, Aristotle’s Children (New York: Harcourt, Inc., 2003) ‘Edward Scribner Ames, Religion (Chicago: Holt, 1929). *Anders Nygren, Agape and Eros (Philadelphia, PA.: Westminster Press, 1953). 'Tbid., p. 57, 121-122. "Tbid., p. 101. "William Hamilton, “The Genetical Evolution of Social Behavior, IT” Journal

k: Basic Books, 1968), Bk. 5, pp. 461- 465. ** Aristotle, Politics, Bk. 2, chpt. 3. °° Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles, 3, i1, p. 115. Page |39 **Tmmanuel Kant, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals (New York: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1959), p. 49. *7Stephen Pope, “The Order of Love in Recent Roman Catholic Et