"The Unity of Philosophical Experience" is an incredibly boring book by leading "Neo"-Thomist expositor Etienne Gilson. But then, have you ever read a *fun* book by a Thomist? I didn't think so either.
Like an ersatz pope, Gilson speaks ex cathedra, knows all the philosophical
answers (imagine that!) and attacks everyone else, including fellow Catholics
such as St. Bonaventure, Thomas à Kempis or Meister Eckhart. Brother Etienne
hath spoken, the matter is settled?
When finished, our knight-errant have valiantly defeated the Platonists,
Nominalists, Cartesians, Kantians, Hegelians, Marxists and one Giovanni
Gentile. Despite this, we are not any wiser than when we started the journey.
Besides, what on earth is the *point* of philosophy, if all important issues
are known only through revelation, anyway?
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