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between logical and physical possibility and between phenomenal and psychological consciousness.

Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do

There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers. Yet it is admirable to profess because it was once admirable to live. To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.

Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)

We were to read Thomas Hobbes in the first seminar I attended. Strauss began without further ado to say that we would read only the first two parts of the Leviathan, that this was "disgraceful" but that we would have our hands full doing justice to even that much. After that, he turned unceremoniously to some introductory remarks.

The first

Our example, though, requires explanations, the kind the Founders gave to the world. And this is where we are failing: the dominant schools in American universities can tell the Chinese students only that they should avoid Eurocentrism, that rationalism has failed, that they should study non-Western cultures, and that bourgeois liberalism is the... See more

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If we break out of the epistemic circle and begin to look at things from our opponents’ point of view, we have a chance to craft a better argument. Here, the philosophical Principle of Charity becomes relevant.

Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do

Most philosophers since Descartes have attached importance to the theory of knowledge, and their doing so is largely due to him. “I think, therefore I am” makes mind more certain than matter, and my mind (for me) more certain than the minds of others.

Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy

D’autres universitaires n’ont pas cédé sur le caractère utile de la philosophie aujourd’hui, comme Pierre Hadot ou Martha Nussbaum. J’ai contribué à diriger un groupe de philosophie, le London philosophy club, auquel ont participé de nombreux universitaires, partageant ainsi avec nous leur savoir, gratuitement. La philosophie dans la rue et la

Jules Evans • La philo, c'est la vie ! (Poche) (French Edition)

Ce relativisme moral post-moderne atteint un sommet dans les années 1980. À ce moment-là, des philosophes se mettent alors à déterrer Aristote et remettent au goût du jour cette croyance selon laquelle certains modes de vie sont simplement meilleurs que d’autres et que le rôle (et même le devoir) de l’État est d’encourager l’épanouissement des

Jules Evans • La philo, c'est la vie ! (Poche) (French Edition)

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.