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Jacob Needleman

AMP Advisory Council

Jacob Needleman is Professor of philosophy emeritus at San Francisco State University.  He was educated in philosophy at Harvard University, Yale University and the University of Freiburg, Germany. He is the author of numerous books including Money and the Meaning of Life, Lost Christianity, The Heart of Philosophy, The American Soul, Why Can’t We Be Good?, What Is God?, and, most recently, An Unknown World: Notes on the Meaning of the Earth, among others.

Set aside the usual associations with the word ‘soul’…Set aside the religious and philosophical cliches surrounding [it] and recognize that what it refers to is a deep, hidden power of consciousness and moral power within every human being, a force, an intensity of feeling and knowing that defines us as human beings, that defines our place in nature, on earth and with each other.

from The American Soul, by Jacob Needleman, page 333.

 

We need to rediscover the meaning of the American idea of independence as an invitation to the individual and the community to love and serve the common good under freely chosen obedience to a higher law.

from The American Soul by Jacob Needleman, page 337.

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