Abstract

One must be grateful to Anthony O. Simon for collecting and editing these essays by his distinguished father. Any one of them would be worth the purchase of the book. In an essay entitled “The Philosopher's Calling,” Simon declares, “Generally speaking, the human mind is not at its best in philosophy.” That said, as if to refute his dictum, Simon goes on to show his readers what a mind respectful of a tradition that dates to Plato and Aristotle can say about the human condition. Successive chapters, among others, are entitled “The Concept of Work,” “Nature and the Process of Mathematicalion,” “On Order in Analogical Sets,” and “An Essay on Sensation.”