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Discourse on Method.
William B. Irvine • A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
Bennett Gilbert • On hope, philosophical personalism and Martin Luther King Jr | Aeon Essays
Luke Burgis • Everything Is Fast
Principle of Self-Understanding.
Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do
Principle of Self-Understanding.
Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do
Man is not a combination of an impersonal rational thinker and a personal will.
Iris Murdoch • The Sovereignty of Good (Routledge Great Minds)
There, she argued that the question of the relationship between our physical constraints and the assertion of our freedom is not a ‘problem’ requiring a solution. It is simply the way human beings are. Our condition is to be ambiguous to the core, and our task is to learn to manage the movement and uncertainty in our existence, not to banish it.
Sarah Bakewell • At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others
As Husserl appreciated, such a distinction cannot eliminate the single individual who ultimately is responsible for choosing to enact and uphold the distinction, and who in turn must attempt to somehow understand himself in light of it.