I want to say hello to Professor Cornel West and the great Tricia Rose, whom I did not have the honor to be a colleague of when I was at Brown University before her arrival. I am sure that if Professor Rose were in that department, I and her would have been fantastic friends and she would have fought for me to

stay. There were those who fought for me to stay because I love Brown, I loved the department,

I did not want to go anywhere, but fate had it that I parted company from a university that

I fell in love with. It's a great honor to be with both of you.

That is true.

You know, I was really struck in both of your comments about this, you know, the rationality, the mind as the rule,

the ruler, right? And they drive toward the belief that everything that needs to be captured

can be captured rationally. And that, and that drive, you know, really creates a hierarchy of

different kinds of knowledge

and a hierarchy about what kinds of elements of the human soul and being can be valued,

you know, in an important way. But when you interviewed Cornell, Professor Kuros, you said, you all talked a bit about this core concept of the love supreme, which would be a black, new world, African American combination of this element of these two traditions.

I'm going to invite Cornell and then have, you know, you follow up, you know,

Professor Curus on this because I think there's something interesting there that's coming right out of what this really

terrific conversation book is trying to get to.

May I, Professor Ross, would it give me an opportunity to share with you a court a short quote from new Roberts precisely on this theme and if you have noticed what is incredible about the small book is I don don't know about the importance of the roles,

but I have never read four words and introductions

as extensive and as powerful as these two pieces

by two giants, Neil Roberts, an emerging young scholar,

and of course the great Georgians himself.

So may have the honor of quoting just a short paragraph from New Roberts.

For West, he says, a love supreme is the efforts that enables us to confront the absurd.

A love supreme is the secular, the spiritual, the psychological, and the metaphysical all together.

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