Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski died a last month.
I really haven’t read a lot of his stuff, but the stuff I have read has been very smart and very dense.
I dig this quote on the cultural role of philosophy (from here):
In a noted lecture in 1982, Mr. Kolakowski said the cultural role of philosophy was “never to let the inquisitive energy of mind go to sleep, never to stop questioning what appears to be obvious and definitive, always to defy the seemingly intact resources of common sense” and “never to forget that there are questions that lie beyond the legitimate horizon of science and are nonetheless crucially important to the survival of humanity as we know it.”
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