Sublime

Paul Ricoeur and the Task of Political Philosophy

Percy argues that most go through life witnessing not the actual world but their preconceptions of it.

Thinking is a creative act that can disclose or discover new meanings in old stories, even if the way they are read departs from the interpretations of the scholars who have assumed ownership of the material.

Ainsi se succèdent les essais nouveaux de rédaction, les reprises des mêmes formules, les variations sans fin sur les mêmes thèmes – ceux d'Épictète. Il s'agit de réactualiser, de rallumer, de réveiller sans cesse un état intérieur qui risque sans cesse de s'assoupir et de s'éteindre. Toujours, à nouveau, il s'agit de remettre en ordre un discours

Reason acquired a life of its own, quite out of proportion with everything else, which was pretty much the criticism that Nietzsche made of Socrates.

the perception of meaning, as I see it, more specifically boils down to

a theo-poetics—as opposed to a “theo-logic,”

We’ll be guided, as we always are in moments of confusion in thought and life, by what remains in terms of new truths, or, in my terminology, of generic procedures made possible by some event.