Jay L. Garfield Quotes

• Buddhist epistemologists do argue that rational analysis leads to the conclusion that rational analysis cannot give us infallible access to truth, including that one. That's not self-defeating, though; it only induces an important kind of epistemic humility and a clearer view of what we do when we reason. We engage in one more fallible human activity among many.

  Jay L. Garfield

  Buddhist, Humility, Self

  "Buddhist howls". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. December 28, 2012.

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• We take Aristotle seriously not when we write about his ideas, but when we take his ideas as part of our discussions.

  Jay L. Garfield

  Writing, Ideas, Discussion

  "Buddhist howls". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. December 28, 2012.

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• When we translate, we always to some extent betray the text we are translating. That is why translation is so hard and thankless. All you can do is to fail in the least egregious way possible.

  Jay L. Garfield

  Way, Failing, Betray

  "Buddhist howls". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. December 28, 2012..

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• The goal of education should be to dismantle the Middle Pole view, not to reinforce it in the name of the need for a grounding in one's own civilisation.

  Jay L. Garfield

  Views, Names, Goal

  "Buddhist howls". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. December 28, 2012.

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• Western philosophers gained access to Asian and African traditions initially by noting similarities and differences. But that, as A.C. Mukerji, of Allahabad, was to note in 1932, is not to do philosophy, but is at best a preparation.

  Jay L. Garfield

  Philosophy, Differences, Preparation

  "Buddhist howls". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. December 28, 2012.

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• To take philosophy seriously is to engage with it philosophically.

  Jay L. Garfield

  Filosofía

  "Buddhist howls". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. December 28, 2012.

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• Creo que el parroquialismo está incorporado en muchos tipos de nacionalismo e instituciones educativas en las que se educa a los niños para que traten su propia cultura como el caso no marcado, y para que marquen los productos de otra cultura.

  Jay L. Garfield

  Children, Educational, Thinking

  "Buddhist howls". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. December 28, 2012.

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• When I went to college I knew what I wanted to study, and what career I wanted to pursue. I wanted to study psychology in order to become a clinical psychologist.

  Jay L. Garfield

  College, Order, Careers

  "Buddhist howls". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. December 28, 2012.

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• In the USA, we learn "art history" as Western art history, and the history of Asian, or African art is a special case; we learn politics by examining our own government system, and consider other systems special cases, and the same is true of philosophy.

  Jay L. Garfield

  Art, Philosophy, Government

  "Buddhist howls". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. December 28, 2012.

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