Quote of the day
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Charles Hartshorne
Born: June 5, 1897
Died: October 9, 2000 (aged 103)
Bio: Charles Hartshorne was an American philosopher who concentrated primarily on the philosophy of religion and metaphysics. He developed the neoclassical idea of God and produced a modal proof of the existence of God that was a development of St.
Known for:
- Omnipotence and other theological mistakes (1984)
- Divine Relativity (1948)
- Creativity in American philosophy (1984)
- Creative synthesis and philosophic method (1970)