Most of our contemporaries think that, at bottom, being a p… - Étienne Gilson

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Most of our contemporaries think that, at bottom, being a philosopher and adopting an idealist method are one and the same thing.

Étienne Gilson

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Étienne Gilson (13 June 1884–19 September 1978) was a French philosopher and historian of philosophy.

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Alternative Names: Étienne Henry Gilson

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We can only choose between two kinds of life, the active and the contemplative.

Reality can be grasped at levels of different depths. It is immediately given to us in a kind of block form, which is simply the "apprehended reality".

I maintain, therefore, that just as there is in Cartesianism a methodical idealism, the kind that starts with nosse [knowing], there can be a methodical realism, the kind that starts with esse [being].

Most of our contemporaries think that, at bottom, being a philosopher and adopting an idealist method are one and the same thing. - Étienne Gilson

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