From Bart Schulz’s outstanding SEP entry on Henry Sidgwick:
Sidgwick’s versatile and many-sided intellect—not to mention his keen wit—are typically better displayed in his essays and letters than in his best-known academic books. He was in fact much loved for his gentle humor (or “Sidgwickedness”) and sympathetic conversation, and his philosophical students prized him for his condor.
I wonder who gave him the bird.
[insert Endangered Species Act joke here]
I wonder who gave him the bird.
[insert Endangered Species Act joke here]
I’d prize anyone who could keep a bird that big in Oxford, too. Maybe caring for it all the time was the reason he only ever taught one term. That said, I’m reading _Methods of Ethics_ now and must highly recommend it if you’ve not read it. Though the jokes are few it’s really enjoyable in the way that very good philosophy can be, and helps make clear how much of what’s written on the same topics is really crap.
I’d prize anyone who could keep a bird that big in Oxford, too. Maybe caring for it all the time was the reason he only ever taught one term. That said, I’m reading _Methods of Ethics_ now and must highly recommend it if you’ve not read it. Though the jokes are few it’s really enjoyable in the way that very good philosophy can be, and helps make clear how much of what’s written on the same topics is really crap.
That’s not a typo — his students were given to philosophising in the college vegetable gardens, but were much interrupted by rabbits until Sidgwick obtained the Condor.
That’s not a typo — his students were given to philosophising in the college vegetable gardens, but were much interrupted by rabbits until Sidgwick obtained the Condor.
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