Daniel: I received Taylor's book this week. It was a fantastic surprise!! Thank you!! It brought a fresh air of nostalgia from my "doctoral" years. He was a student at my alma mater, the University of Kansas, around five years before me. Three of his teachers and mentors were mine, especially Dr. Quinn and Dr. Hillesheim, even though Quinn, in the 1990s, was only teaching "regular" classes. The IHP was already destroyed and gone. He also mentioned Dr. Ivan Barrientos, a Guatemalan whom I met during my first week at K.U. He was assigned to me because my English then was too limited. Alas, he suddenly passed away a year after that. I still have an old "photocopy" of John Senior's paper, "What is really the question," given by Quinn. He asked me to memorize it. When I chose to write my dissertation on Maritain and asked him to be part of my committee, Quinn was thrilled but said: no, I can't be part of the committee. If I am part of it, you will be in trouble and may not finish your work. Please call Hillesheim - continued - who may not be Catholic but is open to the classical mode of knowing. Prof Hillesheim, a Nietzsche scholar, was a soft Nietzschean. Knowledge is not about fact, he often quipped. There are other things, but I will stop now. Nostalgia gives a heavy heart too. Keep musing
Thanks, Daniel. I am surprised I re-discovered in the forest of the internet. So it seems that the crisis of education is abandoning the idea that education is an art, not a science or a method. An encounter that triggers imitation. Bendecido Corpus Christi
Great to be back in touch with you, Mario. I completely agree with your assessment. Do you know James S. Taylor’s book, Poetic Knowledge? With McGilchrist, excellent on these same themes.
Daniel: I received Taylor's book this week. It was a fantastic surprise!! Thank you!! It brought a fresh air of nostalgia from my "doctoral" years. He was a student at my alma mater, the University of Kansas, around five years before me. Three of his teachers and mentors were mine, especially Dr. Quinn and Dr. Hillesheim, even though Quinn, in the 1990s, was only teaching "regular" classes. The IHP was already destroyed and gone. He also mentioned Dr. Ivan Barrientos, a Guatemalan whom I met during my first week at K.U. He was assigned to me because my English then was too limited. Alas, he suddenly passed away a year after that. I still have an old "photocopy" of John Senior's paper, "What is really the question," given by Quinn. He asked me to memorize it. When I chose to write my dissertation on Maritain and asked him to be part of my committee, Quinn was thrilled but said: no, I can't be part of the committee. If I am part of it, you will be in trouble and may not finish your work. Please call Hillesheim - continued - who may not be Catholic but is open to the classical mode of knowing. Prof Hillesheim, a Nietzsche scholar, was a soft Nietzschean. Knowledge is not about fact, he often quipped. There are other things, but I will stop now. Nostalgia gives a heavy heart too. Keep musing
Un abrazo
Mario
I did not read Taylor's book. I will now
M
Thanks, Daniel. I am surprised I re-discovered in the forest of the internet. So it seems that the crisis of education is abandoning the idea that education is an art, not a science or a method. An encounter that triggers imitation. Bendecido Corpus Christi
Great to be back in touch with you, Mario. I completely agree with your assessment. Do you know James S. Taylor’s book, Poetic Knowledge? With McGilchrist, excellent on these same themes.