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8 - A Symposium

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Paul Schollmeier
Affiliation:
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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After my philosophical sojourn I was walking down the street one day toward the university and was greeted by a colleague.

  1. You're back! he said.

  2. – Yes, I replied. Back to the land of the living.

  3. – Are you sure? You hesitated.

  4. – Well, I'm not so sure I can come back.

  5. – Can't come back? Don't tell me you found another job.

  6. – No. But things have changed.

  7. – They haven't changed much, have they?

  8. – Perhaps not. But enough so that I can't quite get my bearings.

  9. – It's the same old place, don't worry. You'll be back in the swing of things soon enough.

  10. – Maybe. But I almost feel like a stranger. It'll take some imagination to figure everything out again.

  11. – Oh, you won't need any imagination to figure this place out.

  12. – But I can't rely on memory anymore. Or at least not as much as I used to.

  13. – Going senile, are you? Doesn't matter. All you have to do is keep your eyes open. Things will be obvious enough.

  14. – Ah, but there's more than meets the eye, my friend.

  15. – Good god, you're not getting paranoid, are you?

  16. – No, I'm only my usual skeptical self. Without any memory or imagination we'd be confined to an itty-bitty here and now.

  17. – All right, all right. You've gone philosophical on me. And at this hour. I haven't even had my coffee yet.

  18. – But I just got back from sabbatical. Besides, a little imagination never hurt anybody.

  19. […]

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Human Goodness
Pragmatic Variations on Platonic Themes
, pp. 274 - 288
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2006

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  • A Symposium
  • Paul Schollmeier, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  • Book: Human Goodness
  • Online publication: 28 July 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511498688.010
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  • A Symposium
  • Paul Schollmeier, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  • Book: Human Goodness
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  • A Symposium
  • Paul Schollmeier, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  • Book: Human Goodness
  • Online publication: 28 July 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511498688.010
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