Maverick Philosopher

Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Doxastic Voluntarism

  • Are You a Natural-Born Scribbler? Take the Gide Test

    Here is an interesting passage from André Gide's last work, written shortly before his death in 1951, So Be It or The Chips Are Down, tr. Justin O'Brien, Alfred Knopf, 1959, pp. 145-146, bolding added, italics in original. Brief commentary follows. It is certain that the man who wonders as he takes up his pen:…