Philosophy Quote by David Bentley Hart

““between mind and world, rather than just a fortuitous and functional liaison forged by evolution—then there are many philosophical questions that the reasoning mind may address fruitfully, and the philosopher who is attentive to those questions, and who discusses them without instinctively resorting to some canon of philosophical dogma, is engaged””

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