I think that parochialism is built into many kinds of nationalism and educational institutions in which children are brought up to treat their own culture as the unmarked case, and to mark the products of other culture. — 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
