Sublime

Merold Westphal,

Mais, en substance, il explique que celui qui cherche la vérité doit se soumettre à une analyse psychologique personnelle, qu’il appelle “dissection morale”. Il va jusqu’à dire que les erreurs des philosophes, y compris des plus grands, sont dues au fait qu’ils ignorent leurs propres ressorts. Puis il déclare que celui qui veut découvrir la vérité

Since Auerbach’s measure of stylistic maturity values writing to the extent that it penetrates through local and individual human purpose to historicist truth, he naturally discounts the individual purposes of writers as impediments to the representation of truth. The more a writer includes and the less he selects according to his own purpose, the

Philosophy begins, and in my view must end, as an attempt to answer real questions asked by real people.

Before the 20th century, reflection on truth in Western intellectual and spiritual traditions usually exalted it. ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty