{"id":48676,"date":"2013-04-11T07:25:17","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T15:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=48676"},"modified":"2013-04-11T07:25:17","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T15:25:17","slug":"dennis-prager-vs-sidney-morgenbesser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=48676","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Prager vs Sidney Morgenbesser"},"content":{"rendered":"

On his show April 10, 2013, Dennis said: “I wrote a paper for a
\nMarxist. One of my professors was Sidney
\nMorgenbesser<\/a> [an ordained rabbi]. He wasn’t a communist. I liked him personally.
\nI’ll never forget I wrote a paper for him comparing Judaism with
\nMarxism as philosophies of life. I knew that had he lived another 100
\nyears, he would not have gotten another paper like that at Columbia. I
\nknew he wondered how I got in — that I actually believed in religion
\nand thought it was superior to Marxism. To his credit, he gave me a B.
\nI’m sure he wanted to give me a D but it was too well-researched. I was
\nlike a sort of extra-terrestrial. I felt that way at graduate school.”<\/p>\n

According to
\nWikipedia<\/a>: “Sidney Morgenbesser (September 22, 1921 \u2013 August
\n1, 2004) was a Columbia University philosopher. Born in New York City,
\nhe undertook philosophical study at the City College of New York and
\nrabbinical study at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, then
\npursued graduate study in philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania,
\nwhere he wrote his Ph.D. thesis under the direction of Nelson Goodman.
\nMorgenbesser returned to Columbia to teach in 1953 and, in 1975, was
\nnamed the John Dewey Professor of Philosophy there. Morgenbesser was
\nknown particularly for his sharp witticisms and humor, which often
\npenetrated to the heart of the philosophical issue at hand. He
\npublished little, and established no school, but was revered for his
\nextraordinary intelligence and moral seriousness. He was a famously
\ninfluential teacher; his former students include Jerry Fodor, Raymond
\nGeuss, Robert Nozick, and Derek Parfit.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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