The Difference

Between my undergraduate education and the experience undergraduates here in philosophy courses have.... This is more to the point, and more intellectually rigorous (in terms of the material presented); there is more 'analysis' in what the students hear, since they're hearing it from professional analysts. But there's a kind of reverence that isn't. I miss the sense that each book could be expected to have something to say to my soul, and that I needed to be able to hear it when it did. Being trusted to figure something out on your own confers a sense of honor and responsibility.

I like feeling like there is a way of thinking that I need to find, and that finding it will require all my faculties--empathetic, intellectual, aesthetic--to be open, and which itself might involve all of them.