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One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the fates they deserve.
Biography
Nicholas Rescher (born July 15, 1928) is an American philosopher and professor at the University of Pittsburgh.
He was born in Hagen, Westphalia, in Germany. One of the most prolific authors in modern philosophy, he has published some eighty-odd books and numerous papers. Most of his work has centered on the development of a system of pragmatic idealism, in which the activity of the human mind makes a positive and constitutive contribution to knowledge and "valid" knowledge contributes to practical success. Rescher also defends a coherence theory of truth but his defense thereof differs somewhat from that of classical idealism; see e.g. his exchange with philosopher Brand Blanshard in The Philosophy of Brand Blanshard (in the Library of Living Philosophers series).
