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Sarah Broadie, Whitelead Lectures

She will be delivering two WHitehad lectures at Harvard University at 4 P.M. on May 10 and 11.

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10 May 2007 Sarah Broadie
St. Andrews Nature & divinity in Plato's Timaeus
Whitehead Lecture
Emerson 210

11 May 2007 Sarah Broadie
St. Andrews Nature & divinity in Aristotle's cosmology
Whitehead Lecture
Emerson 210

Harvard University Department of Philosophy public lectures

Liberalism and the infinite

Not sure what to make of this:

The self-liberation envisaged by liberalism is precisely that man may experience very tangibly the material infinity experienced theoretically by the modern physicist, and free himself from the world of common experience--the world from which the physicist never succeeds in freeing himself. If modern physics were taken to mean, indeed, that the human intellect by becoming aware of its own infinity through measuring its powers by the infinite universe, reaches things as they really are in nature so that nature be considered "operable" in itself, modern social science means that in the world produced by human effort, man is freed from the imaginary boundaries of 'indefectible principles" and "natural associations" so that he may experience practically and not merely theoretically the generic nature of his being: a shadow world of facts that have about them indeed the quality of myth and magic.

Charles N. R. McCoy, The Structure of Political Thought, 255.