Richard Schain

Philosophical Potpourri Richard Schain

Philosophical Potpourri is a group of writings expressing the author's thoughts on the perennial problems of philosophy: the self, the world, and God. At the conclusion of the section entitled Metaphysical Night Thoughts, Schain summarizes his intuitions by stating that an evolving God "augments" his own Being through the higher consciousness of individual human beings. To some, this might seem to be a blasphemous idea, but it is the settled conviction of the author. Other sections are entitled Confession of Faith of a Misanthropic Philosopher, Metaphysics of the Literary Impulse, Poor America, and a long poem The Last Transport.