Kenyon College - Reveille Yearbook (Gambier, OH)

 - Class of 1957

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DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY VIRGIL C. ALDRICH The shadow of Phil Rico's absence from our Department is still upon it. A fine tribute was paid to his memory — a photograph underwritten by John Crowe Ransom — in the last Reveille. So we turn to the present, as all men must. In the last three decades, the tree of philosophy has developed two main branches growing in different directions. The one extending out over British and American territory has cast the spell of the analytical and linguistic method over tno philosophers underneath. Tho other, reaching out over the European continent, has made men dialectical and metaphysical in The effort to reach a dramatic synthesis. Unfortunately, many philosophers under one branch think of those under the other branch as being in its shadow. The philosophers in the Kenyon department take a less dim view of the situation. Though Professor Desan is of continental extraction and an expert in its method of dialectical involvements. and though Professor Aldrich meets easily with the analysts on and in their own terms, both are concerned not only about the excellent inter- mediatr- philosophical positions between the two mighty opposites just mentioned, but are convinced that philosophy is on the threshold of a new statement of the whole case which will be fainer to all the parts including the extremes. VIRGIL C. ALDRICH Professor of Philosophy WILFRID D. DESAN Aitocialr Profouor of Philosophy We are happy to find that this sort of concern is attractive to Kenyon students. Plato is our introduction to philosophy, with Aristotle and Kant and Mill having their classic say in the ethics of the second semester. Of course, this is the occasion for each of the professors to indoctrinate his students with a slight bias, the one in favor of metaphysics in the grand manner, the other in favor of closer analysis. T£ie results, combined, are just right. h°r example, among our majots we have Bill Wainwright who has become incredibly ambidextrous. He can simultaneously crack both whips, the cutting one of the new language analysis, and the heavy one that staggors a man with the impact of metaphysical innuendoes. (We shall have to wait for the future to find out if his right hand knows what his left hand is doing.) Then there are Messrs. Abbott and Payton who are critically examining some of the intermediate positions. Vernon Woodward graduated in the middle of the year, primed for action in a theological seminary. Our junior majors, Messrs. Davis, Ehrbar, McLaren, Morrow, Risley Titchener, are keeping, their poise as they feel their way past the initiation barriers into the temple, each of course bracing himself-to defend the truth as he is going to see it. They are spreading out in a fairly even

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PHILIP PAYTON Louisville, Kentucky Beta Thete Pi WILLIAM MORROW Reeding for honors WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT Kirkwood, Missouri Beta Theta Pi Reeding for honors JOHN M. TITCHENER Reading for honors Not pictured: V. POWELL WOODWARD Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania ROBERT M. EHRBAR Reading for honors LEE RISLEY Reading for honors JOHN DAVIS Reading for honors distribution under the great dome in the sky that shelter philosophers. The shadow of this sort of thing is the finest light in the world for seeing — a gray north light in' which the colors of things are seen to best advantage. Our Department is also happy to be in the shadow of the other Departments at Kenyon. We feel it as a benign influence and will always have things to say in our philosophy classes that remind us of the fundamental kinship which it is the genius of our College to feature, without succumbing to sentimentality or giving up the right to protest as among friends. WILLIAM RAYMOND ABBOTT Columbus, Ohio Archon RONALD E. McLaren Reading for honors Page Seventeen

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