A COSMOPOLITAN LAWYER: JUST SOME READINGS I HAVE ENJOYED LATELY

First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.

Wednesday, January 6, 2016

TEACH THE UNLEARNED

Meister Eckhart, Selected Writings, selected and translated from the German by Oliver Davies (New York: Penguin Books, 1994) ("A pagan master, Seneca, says: 'We should speak of things that are great and sublime with minds that are great and sublime and with an exalted soul.' They will say that such teachings should not be spoken and written down for unlearned people. To this I say that if we do not teach the unlearned, then no one will be learned and no one will be able to speak or write. The unlearned are taught so that they may become learned. If there were nothing new, then there could be nothing that is old. " Id. at 94.).