Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

"I think that, when we read philosophy, we often forget that philosophers live in particular times and those times affect the thoughts and ideas of those philosophers. In one sense, the job of the philosopher is to explain the times to the people of the times. Of course, they tend to do it in the form of timeless principles, which are really not, in reality, timeless." -- fidhle, 2004-07-27 [Note: a few specific examples of what he's talking about are listed in the entry from which this was quoted.]