#237: “The Love of Wisdom”

“For, the moment one loses the “aristocracy” of the love of wisdom, one loses what one can control — one’s mind, one’s thoughts, one’s soul — and one deteriorates progressively to being ruled by what one can never control at all — honors, wealth, reputation, and other human beings.”*

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*Uemura, Joseph Norio. Uemura’s Reflections on the Mind of Plato (p. 99). Saga Egmont International. Kindle Edition.

Joseph Norio Uemura - “Age 89, of Burnsville, passed away March 3, 2016. ... Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Hamline University and retired United Methodist minister.” | from https://www.startribune.com/obituaries/detail/126210/
Also see: https://www.apaonline.org/page/memorial_minutes2016#uemura
“His remarkable life had two major aspects. The first is recorded in words and visual images in his autobiography published under the title The Insatiable Search for Truth [IST] (edited by Steve LeBeau, Autobiography, Inc., Saint Paul, Minnesota, 2015). His account of the experience of the Japanese-Americans who suffered so much and so unjustly in the twentieth century ... The second aspect spawned his career as a professor of philosophy and a mentor to dozens of us who were fortunate to be his students.”