Sublime

Earlier traditions usually formulated their theories in terms of stories. Modern science uses mathematics.

It is possible for Auerbach to see a particular writer such as Saint-Simon as an almost miraculous mutation exhibiting the shape of the future: “In his level of style, Saint-Simon is a precursor of modern and ultra-modern forms of conceiving and representing life.” Truth, for Auerbach, is not the property of an individual, indeed not essentially

A second area of questioning concerns the relationship of ethics to the structure of the polis. If a good deal of the detail of Aristotle’s account of the virtues presupposes the now-long-vanished context of the social relationships of the ancient city-state, how can Aristotelianism be formulated so as to be a moral presence in a world in which

Big losers in the South Sea Bubble included Isaac Newton, who is reported to have said, “I can calculate the motions of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.”