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Audio Tapes of Robert C. Pollock

By Thomas W. Casey

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

. . . 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)