ABSTRACT
I will start this memoir by recollecting some of my experiences of Andrew in these ‘five phases’, and then use this to lead briefly into a short résumé of his intellectual achievement. But when I say ‘intellectual achievement’, a word of caution is necessary. For Andrew is no mere intellectual and his intellectual concerns always follow from his practical engagements in life. We shall see how he gradually developed a comprehensive realist philosophical position, which could comprehend the unity and totality of life, in a still-evolving system which is a form of differentiated realist monism. This is a totality he exemplifies in his own life, itself a totality he always feels free to draw on in the theoretical articulation of philosophy.
