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Tag: philosophy

277. (Sebastian Rödl)

In his Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life, Jonathan Lear reckons with what, it seems, is a long-standing unease … More

Aristotle, Jonathan Lear, philosophy, Sebastian Rödl

276. (Sebastian Rödl )

It’s one thing to say, as a general principle of literary art, that a work must get within its judgments … More

Aristotle, Jonathan Lear, philosophy, plato, Poetry, Sebastian Rödl

237. (Irad Kimhi)

I was alerted to Irad Kimhi’s Thinking and Being before its publication by way of a note in Sebastian Rödl’s … More

Irad Kimhi, metaphysics, philosophy, Sebastian Rödl

212. (Sebastian Rödl )

Sebastian Rödl is not in this post, but he is behind it. It takes off from his Categories of the Temporal, and contains … More

Gadamer, philosophy, Sebastian Rödl

203. (Aristotle)

Aristotle begins his Art of Rhetoric How do we reason in general about what is possible, probable, not necessary; he … More

Aristotle, philosophy, rhetoric

190. (Sebastian Rödl)

Close kin in to his near-simultaneous monograph Self- Consciousness, Sebastian Rödl’s Categories of the Temporal: An Inquiry into the Forms of the Finite Intellect (publ. … More

Aristotle, Kant, metaphysics, philosophy, plato, Sebastian Rödl

167. (Henry James)

The other day, I wrote a post on Henry James that now seems extraordinarily muddled. I didn’t recognize the puzzle … More

Henry James, Nelson Goodman, philosophy, the novel

165. (Henry James)

The post below I now see is muddled. Please see post 167 for a clearer statement. I detect in Nelson … More

American Literature, Henry James, Nelson Goodman, philosophy

156. (Hannah Ginsborg)

My limited experience reading contemporary philosophers has convinced me that Wittgenstein, Kant, and Aristotle need to be read alongside one … More

aesthetics, Criticism, John McDowell, Kant, philosophy, Sebastian Rödl

153. (Charles Sanders Peirce)

He has almost no interest in the field of aesthetics, and though his theory of semiotics might be thought most … More

aesthetics, Charles Sanders Peirce, philosophy, Philosophy and Poetry

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