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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dennis O'Bell who wrote (89595)	2/17/2001 9:19:15 AM
From: Tommaso	Respond to of 132070

Dennis, you are talking about contemporary "philosophers," who are mostly either arrogant or timid academic hacks and yes, give me Feynman any day, despite his occasional wise-ass manner. Best I can tell, most "philosophy" now is a kind of linguistic chess club. Some exceptions. The Late Hao Wang of MIT had a broad and comprehensive outlook as well as being very focused. Santayana is unfortunately completely out of fashion, being viewed as an effete aesthetician with fascist symnpathies, but he assimilated more kinds of philosophy than anyone ever has, and respected math and science though he did not do them.