{"id":8795,"date":"2013-05-09T20:02:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T20:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/05\/09\/dallas-willard-1935-2013\/"},"modified":"2013-05-09T20:02:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T20:02:14","slug":"dallas-willard-1935-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/05\/09\/dallas-willard-1935-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Willard (1935-2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I met Dallas Willard only once, at an A. P. A. meeting in San Francisco in the early '90s.  I had sent him a paper on Husserl and Heidegger and we had plans to get together over dinner to discuss it.  Unfortunately, the plans fell through when a son of Willard showed up.  But we did speak briefly and I still recall his kindness and his words, "I'll help you any way I can."  In the few minutes I was with him I became aware of his depth and his goodness.<\/span><\/p>\n

My only serious engagement with Professor Willard's work was via a long and intricate paper I published in Philosophia Christi<\/em>, "The Moreland-Willard-Lotze Thesis on Being," vol. 6, no. 1 (2004), pp. 27-58.<\/span><\/p>\n

A search of this site turns up only one post on Willard, Knowledge Without Belief: a Dallas Willard-Josef Pieper Connection<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

We have it on good authority that death is the muse of philosophy. The muse reminds us that our time is short and to be well used.  I expect Willard would approve of the following lines from St Augustine's Confessions<\/em>, Book VI, Chapter 11, Ryan trans.:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Let us put away these vain and empty concerns.  Let us turn ourselves only to a search for truth.  Life is hard, and death is uncertain.  It may carry us away suddenly.  In what state shall we leave this world?  Where must we learn what we have neglected here?  Or rather, must we not endure punishment for our negligence?  What if death itself should cut off and put an end to all care, along with sensation itself?  This too must be investigated.<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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