Epstein Secrets

ics as an unde=graduate. So I was first enticed, almost forced, to study Kant by Alan Mon=efiore. Then after I had done that, with Charles I studied Aristotle and Hegel, and then with Stuart Hampshire, Spi=oza. All of these thinkers were in a way counter-cultural, at odds w=th the mainstream. I found it a

=graduate. So I was first enticed, almost forced, to study Kant by Alan Mon=efiore. Then after I had done that, with Charles I studied Aristotle and Hegel, and then with Stuart Hampshire, Spi=oza. All of these thinkers were in a way counter-cultural, at odds w=th the mainstream. I found it all fascina

nt of the student council and captain of the debate team. Reading became my passion: literature (Dostoyevski, Shakespeare, Bellow); philosophy (Kant, Aristotle, Plato, Neitsche; history ( ) and politics ( ). Lloved arguing with my professors. One of my favorites was John Hope Franklin, the first African Amer

ring to his extensive background in philosophy, a subject in which he had a PhD. He would always begin his statements by saying, “Kant would say” or “Hegel would say.” One day we were going to be studying an essay by one of the great contemporary philosophers, Robert Nozick. I knew that this particular s

in the same sense as Galileo, if by this term one describes those who tear down the dictates of the authorities who came before, as Galileo had for Aristotle. Einstein did just the opposite. He knew that rules that had been established on the basis of experiment could not easily be tossed aside, and it w

adiation, Planck stated, 1 am unable to understand Jeans's stubbornness—he is an example of a theoretician as should never be existing, the same as Hegel was for philosophy. So much the worse for the facts if they don't fit" (Just to be clear, in case readers are moved to write me letters, Planck ca