A friend recently sent me this following essay with the above title:

Cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulacity uesdnatnrd what I was rdanieg. Tihs is the phaomnmeal pweor of the hmuan mnid. Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabridge Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oerdr the ltteers in a word are, the only iprmoatnt thnig is that the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. This is bcuseae the hmuan mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by itself, but the wrod as a whohe. Amzanig, huh? And I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! My screen is filled with red squiggly lines--how about yours?

However smart we may feel about now, we're all about to challenge our IQs considerably. This week we will consider what may be the most formative mind in modern Western history. What he did was so significant and influential that his ideas are still the intellectual air we breathe this morning. Many historians of Western culture suggest that the story is Plato, Aristotle, and Kant. I agree, and not in that order.

Let's see why.