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The American Soul…Philosophy Professor Jacob Needleman, of San Francisco State University, says that the great purpose of America is to “protect the individual search for soul.” He delivered the keynote address, “The American Soul,” for the Public Affairs Conference at Missouri State University today.
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Your students didn’t seem very impressed—-what say you?
I was a bit more impressed. Methinks their unimpressitude flows from a lack of understanding
The guy pulled off a neat trick: He made an effective argument for Platonic dialectic and grounded it in Enlightenment idealism.