The Philosopher's Stone

A Commentary on the Passing Scene by Robert Paul Wolff rwolff@afroam.umass.edu

Monday, May 30, 2022

MILESTONES

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Just short of six years ago, in August 2016, I began what became a series of nine lectures on Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason . Thr...
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Saturday, May 28, 2022

THERE ARE NO WORDS

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Eight, nine, ten-year-old children trapped in a classroom with a crazed 18-year-old armed with an assault rifle. Children desperately callin...
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Thursday, May 26, 2022

A RESPONSE

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My intuition was correct that Jerry Fresia would understand what I was trying inadequately to express. Clearly his experience as an artist i...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2022

APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUA

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I have taught countlessly many works of philosophy, politics, sociology, economics, history, literature, and Afro-American studies since I e...
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Monday, May 23, 2022

SENIOR MOMENTS

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A senior moment is a momentary mental lapse of the sort that people in my age bracket experience all too often. Forgetting where one put the...
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Sunday, May 22, 2022

TRANSLATIONS

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Thank you, Stephen Darling, for the accurate translation. Taking all in all, I think we can say that he finds me lame, silly, trifling, otio...
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Friday, May 20, 2022

TRANSLATION

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Marc asked for a translation. Here is my feeble effort: Dear Sir, I have just come from examining a bit your work: it is pretty silly; we do...
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As I observed in one of my books, in politics I am an anarchist, in religion I am an atheist, and in economics I am a Marxist. I am also, rather more importantly, a husband, a father, a grandfather, and a violist.
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