Quote of the day
Good authors, too, who once knew better words
Now only use four-letter words
Writing prose —
Anything goes.
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