Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
Lewis White Beck

Born: September 26, 1913
Died: June 7, 1997 (aged 83)
Bio: Lewis White Beck was an American philosopher and scholar of German philosophy. Beck was Burbank Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy at the University of Rochester and served as the Philosophy Department chair there from 1949 to 1966.
Known for:
- Early German Philosophy (1969)
- Selected Essays on Kant