QUOTE: I never cease to find this Richard Rorty quote amusing:
"This substitution would let us disentangle Christ's suggestion that love matters more than knowledge from the neo-Platonic suggestions that knowledge of the truth will make us free."
I find it amusing because I'm aware of no spot in the Bible in which Christ suggests anything the the first statement. I also find it amusing because the suggestion he takes to be neo-Platonic actually comes from Jesus.
Richard Rorty: reads a lot, doesn't really pay attention to it.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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