...if there were such things. When I was a kid the Holy Grail of baseball cards was Rocky Colavito's, the Cleveland Indians' best player in those days. I finally got one, after years of trying, that still sits in a frame in my former bedroom in my parents' house. Man, that was the best bubble gum I ever had. It was the gum of victory.
I may have found what is for me the Rocky Colavito of philosophy: Roger Scruton. He is a contemporary philosopher, an aestheticist, who writes some of the most wonderful common sense; which, after all, is what philosophy is supposed to be.
I think we'll feature a daily dose of Scruton during the days of Lent. Here's a nice place to start:
"Contemporary atheism is the desire to escape from the eye of judgement. You escape from the eye of judgement by blotting out the face - most assertively the Face of God."
Now I want his autograph.