New Ideas from Old Ones
It was my philosophy class, and we were talking about a particular book that—as Hart says—“Marion understood to be a simple work in the history of philosophy. Everyone else saw it as a major theoretical advance. This should be instructive for us.” It should be instructive for us, he said, because we often want to wait around for our great idea to fall from the sky—but great ideas are almost always the fruit of seeing new connections between ideas that have already been thought, sensing some disconnect in the way stories have been told in the past. New ideas come from re-telling stories.
6 April 2007 |
tags: Method
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