“Do you know,” asks Emerson, “the secret of the true scholar? In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him and In that I am his pupil.” Specifically, philosophy means and includes five fields of study and discourse: logic, esthetics, ethics, politics, and metaphysics. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom. Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair. These book notes are mostly excerpts of interesting thoughts, they’re all direct quotations from the book.Īnalysis belongs to science, and gives us knowledge philosophy must provide a synthesis for wisdom.Įvery science begins as philosophy and ends as art it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
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