To imagine that we are our own gods is the most life-affirming of philosophy, not its denial. It is a sign of the facile and weak-minded brand of critique to say we live in a nihilisitc culture. Talk about a cliche. In the future, let's show some rigor and not fall into such trivial platitudes like "it's heartening to witness a scientific movement that pronounces certitude in that old school 'age of enlightenment' style." I didn't know lynne Cheney and Hilton Kramer wrote for NYW.


-Pete


P.S. I hope my tone wasn't too nasty. It wasn't meant to be but I'm on the threshold of graduating and what's just become the most popular major at my college? Economics. I despise the leveling that's taking place in
our culture and i think among the worst offenders are self-professed post-modernists who spout slogans but don't have a clue what they're talking about. I hold their vacuousness in large part responsible for letting conservatives turn people like Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida and Wittgenstein into caricatures so that their very powerful and compelling ideas can be dismissed out of hand.


P.P.S. Are you interested in hiring an imminent graduate from Columbia College with a degree in Philosophy?