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Frederick Smith

S. Toulmin, Philosopher and Educator - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Frederick Smith on 30 Dec 09
     
    Philosopher advocating pragmatic, contextual reasoning - favored Montaigne over Descartes.
Frederick Smith

John Edwin Smith, Philosopher and Author, Dies at 88 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Philosopher interested in American pragmatists (James, Pierce, Dewey), Josiah Royce, and religion (including Jonathan Edwards!" "The search for truth, he argued, was an inherently social, communitarian enterprise."
Frederick Smith

Obit by Allan Kozinn - 0 views

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  • Frederick Smith on 18 Nov 13
     
    After he became a follower of Russian Orthodox Christianity, he spoke critically of Western Christian beliefs, and of the sacred music they yielded, including the works of Bach. In recent years this view softened: in 2007, he told a New York Times interviewer that he had reconsidered some of his beliefs and had returned to playing Bach on the organ. "I reached a point where everything I wrote was terribly austere and hidebound by the tonal system of the Orthodox Church," he said, "and I felt the need, in my music at least, to become more universalist: to take in other colors, other languages."
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