List of Figures Preface Acknowledgments Prologue 1. THE AUTHOR INTRODUCES HIMSELF Thoughts on Memory The I and the Me Geographical More Personal than Modest A Frustrating but Constructive Philosophical Dream 2. A SHELTERED CHILDHOOD (1897-1911) Earliest Recollections A Noble Friend Marguerite Haughton Hartshorne Francis Cope Hartshorne My Four Brothers Male Chauvinism? Public School 3. A BOARDING SCHOOL IN THE COUNTRY (1911-1915) Dr. Gardiner Some Other Boarding School Teachers School Life Appendicitis and Poetry 4. SOME PLAYMATES AND RELATIVES Small Town Society Sister Frances, Cousin Emily, Some Aunts Aunt Amy and Lillie Zietz Professor J. Duncan Spaeth 5. HAVERFORD COLLEGE (1915-1917) Choosing a College in 1915 Some Classmates: Frank Morley and Evan Phillips Some Upper Classmen Some Haverford Teachers 6. LIFE IN AN ARMY MEDICAL CORPS (1917-1919) Volunteer - or Be Conscripted? A Base Hospital and Its Nurses and Patients Some Professional Soldiers Commanding Officers and Psychosomatic Eye Trouble My Life is Saved; Fellow Orderlies, Alcoholism Religious - Philosophical Experiences The Thrill of Youth 7. HARVARD, EUROPE, HARVARD (1919-1928) Some Fellow Students (1919-1923) Some Professors Two Roommates Some Landladies Volunteer Work in a Camp for Boys A Traveling Fellowship (1923-1925) Some Letters and F. C. Hartshorne's Last Public Address 8. SOME YOUTHFUL EXPERIENCES WITH WOMEN An Old-Fashioned Way of Learning About Love Social Relations of a Wandering Student What Makes Life Together Endurable? Homo- and Heterosexuality 9. THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (1928-1955) "She Was a Phantom of Delight" Hutchins, Adler, McKeon The X Club Carnap Students Theologians and Metaphysicians Lecturing in German (1948-1949) Why Leave a Great University? 10. SOME FRIENDS IN CHICAGO, AND ELSEWHERE My Admirable Relatives-in-Law Kurt Riezler A Neighborhood Institution "Bird Friends Are Good Friends" Three Russian Aristocrats Some Excellent Household Helpers "E. L." - A Southern Gentleman of a New School 11. THE MOVE TO THE SOUTH (1955-1962) The Era of Civil Rights Begins Emory: A Small but Good University Lecturing in Seattle and Kyoto 12. THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS (1962- ) John Silber A Great Naturalist Texas Philosophers 13. RECOLLECTIONS OF FAMOUS PHILOSOPHERS - AND OTHER IMPORTANT PERSONS 14. SOME OTHER PHILOSOPHERS Heinrich Rickert Kallen, Feigl, Langford Bag Fuller and E. S. Brightman Norman Malcolm Morris Cohen Max Otto Eustace Hayden 15. ODDS AND ENDS Violence and Some Nonacademic Jobs The Deaths of Dear Ones Mentally Disturbed Students Opportunity, Genius, and Ambition What's Wrong with Everybody? What Is There to Regret? "Life is Unfair" Wordsworth's Vision Epilogue Name Index Topic Index
Charles Hartshorne is Ashbel Smith Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Creativity in American Philosophy, Insights and Oversights of Great Thinkers, Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes, and Wisdom as Moderation all published by SUNY Press.
"Charles Hartshorne is our one living example of an American who is a world class philosopher..." - The Modern Schoolman "Thought by many to be the dean of living American philosophers..." - Choice
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