We may speculate, and it is interesting that we do speculate, because I think the questions do not ultimately make sense – not the sense that seems to be intended anyway, whereby something can be got for nothing.
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Note added October 16, 2018: Here I compare two projects of re-examining the philosophical tradition named in my title. The projects are those of
R. G. Collingwood in An Essay on Philosophical Method (Oxford, 1933);
Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan at St John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland, beginning in 1937.
I review
how I ended up as a student at St John’s;
how Collingwood has been read (or not read) by myself and others, notably Simon Blackburn;
how Collingwood’s Essay is based on the hypothesis of the “overlap of classes.”
Polytropy