Philosophy is an everlasting fire, sometimes damped down by… - David Wood

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Philosophy is an everlasting fire, sometimes damped down by setting itself limits, then flaring into new life as it consumes them. Every field of inquiry is limited, but philosophy has an essential relation to the question of limits, to its own limits.

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David Wood (born 1946, Oxford) is a professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University. Wood has taught philosophy in Europe and the United States for over thirty years and has published 16 books.

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