Quote of the day
Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Robert B. Pippin
Born: September 14, 1948 (age 75)
Bio: Robert Buford Pippin is an American philosopher. He is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the College at the University of Chicago.
Known for:
- Modernism as a philosophical problem (1991)
- Hegel's idealism (1989)
- Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy (2010)