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WT Sharpe · 01-23-2011, 08:35 AM

.....The philosophical spirit is too important to be left to the narrow preserve of the specialist. It ought to be the common possession of every educated person. It is difficult to overestimate the rate of social and cultural transformation that is occurring—and the need of a reflective response to it.
..........— Paul Kurtz (1925 - ), prominent American skeptic of the paranormal and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo who has sometimes been called "the father of secular humanism." The Transcendental Temptation: A Critique of Religion and the Paranormal (1986).

01-23-2011, 08:35 AM	#1132
WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,072 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	.....The philosophical spirit is too important to be left to the narrow preserve of the specialist. It ought to be the common possession of every educated person. It is difficult to overestimate the rate of social and cultural transformation that is occurring—and the need of a reflective response to it. ..........— Paul Kurtz (1925 - ), prominent American skeptic of the paranormal and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo who has sometimes been called "the father of secular humanism." *The Transcendental Temptation: A Critique of Religion and the Paranormal* (1986).