Q & A:
I wrote my dissertation on him. I was only third person to write on him and I actually wrote him a letter and said can I actually talk to you. And it’s really weird, you know, when you’ve actually spent days in a library reading everything this man has ever written and then you get to meet him.
I had the last chapter not written because I knew what I wanted to talk to him about which was religion actually. And I finally found him. He lived in a slate cottage on the edge of a cliff in Dorsett in England.
This is a man who turned down a knighthood from the queen, has no interest in worldly honors or fame. He was interested in thinking. He was a real philosopher.
And he took me inside and he made a fire and we sat down for one of the most wonderful afternoons of my life, and talked about God, and politics, and faith. And his work, undoubtedly, has profoundly affected me and I’ll tell you in so many different ways. But one of them, one fundamental one that he insisted upon was that – was that there was a distinction between what you know in theory and how the world works in practice.
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