...representation, a sort of double, of what is already there. I was dying, I mused, to hear edifying philosophers keep space open for the sense of wonder which poets can sometimes evoke- wonder that there is something new under the sun, something which is not just a duplicate of...

...Systematic philosophers want to put their subject on the secure path of science. Edifying philosophers want to keep space open for the sense of wonder which poets can someti mes cause — wonder that there is something new under the sun which is not an accurate representation...

...terms. It is so because it fulfills one of Rorty's requirements for his edifying philosophy; it wants "to keep space open for the sense of wonder which poets can sometimes cause—wonder that there is something new under the sun, something which is not an accurate representation...

...generation." Systematic philosophers are engaged in the quest for certainty, but edifying philosophers "want to keep space open for the sense of wonder which poets...the moment) cannot be explained and can barely be described."34 Rorty suggests that if we lose this sense of wonder, if we answer all questions definitively,...

...philosophers want to put their subject on the secure path of a science. Edifying philosophers want to keep space open for the sense of wonder which poets...wonder that there is something new under the sun.... 74 There is no indication that Rorty is acquainted with Hamann; but it is interesting that his list...

...Systematic philosophers want to put their subject on the secure path of science. Edifying philosophers want to keep space open for the sense of wonder which poets...the moment) cannot be explained and can barely be described.14 And what is the payoff we realize in adopting these changes? What is the point of a philosophy...

...philosophers want to put their subject on the secure path of a science. Edifying philosophers want to keep space open for the sense of wonder which poets can sometimes cause—wonder that there is something new under the sun, something which is not an accurate representation...

...intervals, that new dialogue emerges.40 Furthermore as Rorty suggests: "Edifying philosophers want to keep space open for the sense of wonder which poets...was already there, something which (at least for the momentl cannot be explained and can barely be described."41 The middle way of Buddhism with its reliance...

...substitutes "the notion of BHdung . . . for that of knowledge as the goal of thinking.'"17 Hermeneutics can "keep space open for the sense of wonder which poets can sometimes cause.'"* As Rorty would have it. "the cultural role of [such] edifying philosophy is to help us avoid the self-deception...

...poetic of Wallace Stevens, one of whose aspirations, like that of Rorty's "edifying philosophers" was: to keep space open for the sense of wonder which poets can sometimes cause—wonder that there is something new under the sun, something which is not an accurate representation...