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it always involves a metaphysics of transcendence.
Kieran Setiya • Life Is Hard
He saw the whole enterprise as about enabling individuals to refind their own language, develop their own cosmologies.
Sonu Shamdasani • Lament of the Dead
key issue of suffering is loss of meaning.
Sonu Shamdasani • Lament of the Dead
“If our need for status is a fixed thing, we nevertheless retain all say over where we will fulfil that need. We are at liberty to ensure that our worries about being disgraced will arise principally in relation to an audience whose methods of judgement we both understand and respect. Status anxiety may be defined as problematic only insofar as it
... See moreThe idea that human life can be free of moral concerns is a fantasy.
Jordan B. Peterson • 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
lecture courses on Plato in the early 1930s that dealt centrally
Graeme Nicholson • Heidegger on Truth: Its Essence and Its Fate (New Studies in Phenomenology and Hermeneutics)
In the wake of the complete breakdown of European norms in World War I, which was tragically compounded by World War II and the Holocaust, it became easy to treat Hegel as, at best, a joke and, at worst, precisely the type of rationalization for domination that the twentieth century had been eager to expose.