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It is said that one must write what one knows. For the mid-twentieth century American philosopher Henry Bugbee, one must think where one is—with the goal being roughly the same: honesty. Honest about who one is and honest in our attempt to express this understanding to the world.
Today, Koinos is proud to release the first of our eight-part seminar on The Inward Morning: A Philosophic Exploration in Journal Form by Henry Bugbee. It is not an easy book, yet it is all complete common sense. Before diving into the episode, I would highly recommend watching our interview with his student, Professor James Hatley, or read the introductory essay Thinker, Wanderer, Fly-Fishermen by our good friend Joseph Keegin.
The book, a beautiful prose poem about the nature of being, was written while on paid sabbatical at Harvard in 1952-53 — instead of the expected academic treatise. As a result, Bugbee became one of the early victims of the "publish or perish" paradigm now plaguing higher education.
Henry Bugbee can rightly be considered both the greatest American philosopher AND poet of the last century — yet he remains in almost complete obscurity. We hope to do some small part in changing that.
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