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Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Sailing from Byzantium
Read a New York Times Magazine article at work today on Antony Flew, a British philosopher who made a name for himself 50 years ago arguing for atheism who's now embracing belief. From the article:
I guess what is true of contemporary poets is true of contemporary philosophers, too:
There's too much internet porn in the world to waste time with theological arguments.
But is Flew’s conversion what it seems to be? Depending on whom you ask, Antony Flew is either a true convert whose lifelong intellectual searchings finally brought him to God or a senescent scholar possibly being exploited by his associates.
I guess what is true of contemporary poets is true of contemporary philosophers, too:
Byzantium is no place for old poets. That's long been understood. When a poet is ready to collect his laurels, he slouches toward Bethlehem.
There's too much internet porn in the world to waste time with theological arguments.
