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Cogito
Cogito
I overthink, or at least I think I do; therefore, I am.
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Cogito
More 1232 Madison
More 1232 Madison
In 1926, Lawrence Buermeyer, who taught philosophy at New York University, resided at 1232 Madison Avenue, where he was soundly beaten by his friend Joseph Carson, who taught philosophy at Columbia University.
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More 1232 Madison
Gorgias in our time
Gorgias in our time
“The orator need have no knowledge of the truth about things; it is enough for him to have discovered a knack of persuading the ignorant that he seems to know more than the experts.”
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Gorgias in our time
Pete Buttigieg and Seneca
Pete Buttigieg and Seneca
I think Buttigieg must be describing the Penguin Great Ideas paperback On the Shortness of Life (2005).
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Pete Buttigieg and Seneca
Senecan advice for travelers
Senecan advice for travelers
“Do you want to know why your running away doesn’t help? You take yourself along. Your mental burden must be put down before any place will satisfy you.”
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Senecan advice for travelers
Senecan advice for liberal-arts types
Senecan advice for liberal-arts types
“I devoted myself to the liberal arts. Although my poverty urged me to do otherwise and tempted my talents towards a field where there is an immediate profit from study, I turned aside to unremunerative poetry and dedicated myself to the wholesome study of philosophy. . . .”
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Senecan advice for liberal-arts types
“It wears a person out”
“It wears a person out”
Mrs. Fosdick offers an addition to the philosopher H.P. Grice’s principles of conversation. From Sarah Orne Jewett’s The Country of the Pointed Fir.
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“It wears a person out”
Stanley Cavell (1926–2018)
Stanley Cavell (1926–2018)
Stanley Cavell on watching tragic drama: “Now I can give one answer to the question: Why do I do nothing, faced with tragic events?”
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Stanley Cavell (1926–2018)
The sense of wonder
The sense of wonder
Joseph Pieper: “To perceive all that is unusual and exceptional, all that is wonderful, in the midst of the ordinary things of everyday life, is the beginning of philosophy.”
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The sense of wonder
Politics and theory
Politics and theory
If I doubt the reality of Donald Trump’s lost “great” America, it’s not because of “critique.” It’s because I’m aware of too many elements in our history — call them facts — that contradict any simple claim to greatness.
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Politics and theory
Grice
Grice
“When I was in grad school, in the mid-1980s, reading lots of ‘theory,’ the Dickensian name Grice was much in the air.”
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Grice
“Was Wittgenstein Right?”
“Was Wittgenstein Right?”
Paul Horwich on Ludwig Wittgenstein: “[T]he usual view these days is that his writing is self-indulgently obscure and that behind the catchy slogans there is little of intellectual value. But this dismissal disguises what is pretty clearly the real cause of Wittgenstein’s unpopularity within departments of philosophy.”
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“Was Wittgenstein Right?”
Frankfurt on bullshit
Frankfurt on bullshit
Philosopher Harry Frankfurt: “For the bullshitter, however, all these bets are off: he is neither on the side of the true nor on the side of the false.”
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Frankfurt on bullshit