Learned the hard way, arguing from a borrowed European framework that fit Spain badly, that every idea is a view from somewhere and pretending otherwise just hides the somewhere. A mentor's copy of the old Revista de Occidente, water-stained, sits on the desk as a reminder that widening a view took real work and real risk, not just better footnotes. Holds court most afternoons on a terrace on the Paseo del Prado, arguing that the paintings inside the Prado are philosophy that happens to hang on a wall.
IACSInt'l Academy for Consciousness Studies