The goal of education should be to dismantle the Middle Pole view, not to reinforce it in the name of the need for a grounding in one's own civilisation. — Jay L. Garfield Copy Share Image
To take philosophy seriously is to engage with it philosophically. — Jay L. Garfield Copy Share Image
I think that parochialism is built into many kinds of nationalism and educational institutions in which children are brought up to treat their own… — Jay L. Garfield Copy Share Image
We take Aristotle seriously not when we write about his ideas, but when we take his ideas as part of our discussions. — Jay L. Garfield Copy Share Image
When I went to college I knew what I wanted to study, and what career I wanted to pursue. I wanted to study psychology… — Jay L. Garfield Copy Share Image
In the USA, we learn "art history" as Western art history, and the history of Asian, or African art is a special case; we… — Jay L. Garfield Copy Share Image
Western philosophers gained access to Asian and African traditions initially by noting similarities and differences. But that, as A.C. Mukerji, of Allahabad, was to… — Jay L. Garfield Copy Share Image
When we translate, we always to some extent betray the text we are translating. That is why translation is so hard and thankless. All… — Jay L. Garfield Copy Share Image
The goal of education should be to dismantle the Middle Pole view, not to reinforce it in the name of the need for a… — Jay L. Garfield Copy Share Image
Buddhist epistemologists do argue that rational analysis leads to the conclusion that rational analysis cannot give us infallible access to truth, including that one.… — Jay L. Garfield Copy Share Image
