Maverick Philosopher

Paul Roubiczek

A while back I supplied a reader's demand for a list of Obscure, Neglected, and Underrated Philosophers.  But I forgot to mention Paul Roubiczek.  I have read a couple of his works, and this morning I started  in on Thinking Towards Religion which Mr. Amazon was kind enough to deposit upon my doorstep yesterday afternoon.  The service this company provides is unbelievably good.  This particular volume arrived two days ahead of shedule.  Is this the sort of operation that gets off the ground in NoKo or Kooba?  Whaddya think, Bernie?

Hard Childhood, Strong Man

Emmanuel Lasker, Die Philosophie des Unvollendbar, 1919, p. x:

Aber eine harte Kindheit macht einen starken Mann.

But a hard childhood makes a strong man.

In the '80s I read a chunk of Lasker's Philosophy of the Incompletable and concluded that the grandmaster of chess was not one of philosophy. But I didn't read much of it and it was a long time ago.  Now available in a paperback reprint via Amazon.com.  I am tempted to take another look.

Too many in philosophy and other fields confine themselves to the horizon of the contemporary. Explore, get lost, discover.

A marvellous sublunary trinity: chess, philosophy, and a cigar.