Comments on: Overheard at Yale: Pomocon Ontology (I)

By: Ralph Hancock

Ralph Hancock — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 01:49:19 +0000

Who knew it was so provocative to mention Yale — even ironically, as a Harvard man must?…
But while I’m on the topic, let me add that I was impressed by the hospitality there, and by the engagement by faculty and grad students of fundamental political-philosophical questions.

By: Carl Eric Scott

Carl Eric Scott — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 14:59:19 +0000

John, I admit that among the handful of Yale grad students I’ve met in my life I remember several who made an impression of arrogance, but good night!

I suppose Richard Nixon would like your comment, though.

By: John Presnall

John Presnall — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 06:59:07 +0000

Congrats to prof. Hancock for climbing the ivy walls of Yale. I suppose you have made it when you can present a paper to the Ivy League.

Far be it for me to pooh pooh such achievement. I too wish I were taken seriously by Yale, but never having attended such an illustrious institution I suspect that whatver I have to say it moot as best. Everyone knows that when it comes from Yale it must be authoritative. So in my jealousy, I must congratulate Prof. Hancock in his philosophical ruminations.

The other night I was drinking a beer with a colleague. We both lamented the fact that we were not nor had been Yale grad students. It may as well as been Yale because it could have been Harvard, Chicago, Berkeley. Yes it is true me and my friend are losers in that we teach at community colleges. Our ideas are not as profound as Prof. Hancock’s at Yale.

So let me say that I must learn my subordinate position to such a genius who teaches at Yale. I’m g;ad he lets us know that he he is now taken seriously by the credentialized genii.

This may sound like I’m bitter. I may be and I may be not. But at least I don’t make Yale a point of interest.

By: Carl Eric Scott

Carl Eric Scott — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 19:41:32 +0000

A little dismayed/intimidated by all this postmoderny talk of axes configuring dimensions and what-not, but here are a golden couple of sentences: “Our openness to the whole takes place in space and time, in a given language, and it is therefore fundamentally political. An account of the whole is of necessity built on a politically charged vocabulary.”

We are looking forward to it, Ralph. It will be well worth the money.

By: Clifford

Clifford — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 20:35:00 +0000

Ralph I will order your book for xmas.. but its rather pricy….. I loved your Calvin book… even with my reservations and criticism–and it was one of the very few books that addressed Calvin’s political thought seriously and from a serious and critical prespective–without the hostility that the Voegelians and their fellow travelers often have.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 14:14:10 +0000

Thanks for this summary, and I wish that I had read it before meeting up with some friends last evening who hold that nothing good happened until The Enlightenment and that there is no such thing as objective truth.

Looking forward to Part II.

Wondering if the Yale reading was videotaped and online anywhere…