tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619743764213415433.post1133051657701085587..comments2023-11-03T07:07:55.456-05:00Comments on CoPhilosophy: Was Henry James "the most intelligent man of his generation?"Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619743764213415433.post-33363712655192458852017-07-22T18:57:32.828-05:002017-07-22T18:57:32.828-05:00Sounds so simple,to just attend to what you see an...Sounds so simple,to just attend to what you see and report it faithfully. It's no so simple, obviously. Henry was a Master at it. It's interesting that his brother, who thought his own sensibility so much more direct and straightforward, is now remembered as the philosopher of Pure Experience and Radical Empiricism - a philosophy that urges our close attention and honest reporting of what we see. <br /><br />Henry's intelligence was of the form that resists ideological compromise. Say what you see, not what you'd prefer to see: how many of us manage that, consistently? <br /><br />The advice to writers is excellent. Always carry a notebook - Moleskine, or the equivalent - and write stuff down. Big stuff, little stuff, ephemera, fleeting perceptions and notions.... Emerson knew that too, and told Thoreau: keep a journal.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com