The first complete Robert C. Pollock lecture online is about William James at http://www.mediamax.com/gmosesx/Hosted/pollock_james.mp3
“If you really want a good slam-banging of American intellectuals read Noam Chomsky.”
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Time magazine recently profiled David Hartman, the Israeli philosopher. In that full three-page profile Hartman is described as “perhaps Israel’s paramount religious philosopher. . . . For these Jews, Hartman is a Rebbe, a particularly wise teacher.” The article goes on to say that Hartman went to Fordham University for five years
Read More. . . knocking heads with the Jesuits. It was there that he encountered the great Roman Catholic philosopher, Robert C. Pollock [emphasis mine]. And there that he abandoned religious absolutism. Under Pollock’s tutelage, Hartman developed the respect for religious tolerance that infuses his beliefs, and came to appreciate the American pluralistic experience as expressed in the writings of William James and John Dewey. (Time, April 30, 1990. p. 90)
By Greg Moses
February, 2001
NOTE: Audio clips not yet imported.
In this lecture at Manhattanville College on March 24, 1964, Pollock argues that an evolutionary view of consciousness would help us to see how humanity in the 20th century is emerging into a new era of awareness, with particular results for moral life.
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