Stanley Cavell on external world skepticism “How do we learn that what we need is not more knowledge but the willingness to forgo knowing? For this sounds to us as though we are being asked to abandon reason for irrationality (for we know what these are and we know these are alternatives), or to trade […]
A Pascal Miscellany 136 I have often said that the sole cause of man’s unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room. 924 It is true that there is something painful in beginning to practice piety, but this pain does not arise from the beginnings of piety within us, […]
Nicholas Lash on divine and human knowledge “The supposition that there could be a single ‘basic sense’ of ‘know,’ held constant ‘across the divine-human gap,’ risks giving the impression that bodiliness is, in the last analysis, incidental to what, in human beings, knowledge means, and to how we come to know things. It is, after […]
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