Quote of the day
Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
Herbert Fingarette
Born: January 20, 1921
Died: November 2, 2018 (aged 97)
Bio: Herbert Fingarette was an American philosopher and emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his PhD at the University of California, Los Angeles under the direction of Donald Piatt.
Known for:
- Confucius--the secular as sacred (1972)
- Heavy Drinking (1988)
- Self-deception (1969)
- The meaning of criminal insanity (1972)
- Death: Philosophical Soundings (1996)