So much, of course, can be said about the significance of Barack Obama’s capturing the Democratic nomination for the presidency of the United States. I simply want to mark the moment by appealing to a single line from the speech he gave in Minnesota on Tuesday:
… this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal …
I was surprised to find myself moved most by this fragment of a very inspiring speech. Perhaps it is in part because the book I am writing, The Saying of Things: The Nature of Truth and the Truth of Nature in Aristotle, has developed into a study of how human-being exists as a natural being in and with the world of nature.