tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7887698867600652582.post7184160546143344398..comments2018-07-18T10:31:04.232+01:00Comments on 192 192 - optimistic but sceptical: Scepticism: it's a tough job, but someone has to do itJay Derrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10999064697991884311noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7887698867600652582.post-39282287140297708792012-10-10T16:13:03.626+01:002012-10-10T16:13:03.626+01:00A volume will be placed upon your shelves on the 2...A volume will be placed upon your shelves on the 26th of October - when I hope to be granted a floor in your houseThe nowness of everythinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10040083545709948117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7887698867600652582.post-6351663029243332102012-10-10T15:17:01.930+01:002012-10-10T15:17:01.930+01:00Thanks for this Chris, glad you like it! The Dide...Thanks for this Chris, glad you like it! The Diderot stuff I'm reading is terrific - an obscure selection of his early writing published in 1916. After Philosophic Thoughts which consists of about 60 short pieces like the one quoted above, I'm now on Letter on the Blind, which fundamentally deals with the same issues not from a moral and philosophical but from a perceptual perspective - once again anticipating Nietzsche that seeing and knowing unavoidably involve interpretation of our perceptions. Blind people don't have limited faculties so much as different ones....it's a wonderful and sophisticated discussion - I can't understand why he isn't better known and more widely read in the UK. <br /><br />Have you finished the Scrope (pronounced Scroop) biography? I'd very much like to read that at some point if you have....Jay Derrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10999064697991884311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7887698867600652582.post-64867648951467904962012-10-09T21:19:16.292+01:002012-10-09T21:19:16.292+01:00Peradventure my own spectacles require fresh lense...Peradventure my own spectacles require fresh lenses - I really enjoyed reading this quotation from Diderot. <br />I am presently reading a biography of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, who died tragically in 1798 following the crushing of the United Irishmen - his charm and idealism shine through in the letters quoted - his cousin was Charles James Fox, that louche whig and gambler<br />The nowness of everythinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10040083545709948117noreply@blogger.com