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Saint Anselm was, like Lanfranc, an Italian, a monk at Bee, and archbishop of Canterbury (1093-1109), in which capacity he followed the principles of Gregory VII and quarrelled with the king. He is chiefly known to fame as the inventor of the “ontological argument” for the existence of God. As he put it, the argument is as follows: We define “God”
... See moreBertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
Certainly, small feet and perfectly turned shoulders aid the impression of refined manners, and the right thing said seems quite astonishingly right when it is accompanied with exquisite curves of lip and eyelid. And Rosamond could say the right thing; for she was clever with that sort of cleverness which catches every tone except the humorous. Hap
... See moreRosemary Ashton • Middlemarch
Augustine and Pascal would have an answer:
Carl Trueman • Our Secular Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor
Policy-making does, however, often require Aristotelian phronesis, particularly the ability to recognize salient facts that require invoking the exception clause of a guiding picture.
Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do
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Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do
Our load-bearing answers to untimely questions tend to give rise to predictions that specify what needs to be true in the future in order for my answer to guide my action in the present.
Agnes Callard • Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life
What “remains,” Aristotle concludes, is “a sort of active (praktike) life of that which possesses reason (logos)”
Eric Salem • In Pursuit of the Good
Meister Eckhart was both a brilliant speculative theologian and a majestically gifted writer. He was also given to expressing his more difficult ideas in almost willfully audacious language.