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Gary

['Member']Joined: August 27, 2021 at 08:16Last active: August 29, 2021 at 07:43None discussions4 comments
Location: Germany

Bio

Originally from Kentucky, I have lived in Germany since 1993. I have been a member of the English department at the University of Potsdam since 2003.

Favourite Philosopher

Plato, Wittgenstein, Gadamer, Arendt, Murdoch, Gaita

Favourite Quotations

The reason why philosophers and poets are related it this: both are inspired by wonder. – Thomas Aquinas

I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that's a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn't insane. We are only doing philosophy. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

Comments

More charitably, apart from any reading of his metaphysics, I guess one could see in this passage the recognition of a common humanity in a community ...
August 29, 2021 at 07:54
I agree with the last comment. In this passage I find everything I love and hate in Schopenhauer, whose metaphysics I would caricature (but I hope my ...
August 29, 2021 at 07:44
Very kind of you. Thank you, and for the great question.
August 27, 2021 at 10:00
I will take a stab at it. (Listened to a lecture by Raimond Gaita that stimulated this reply.) Recall Socrates’ conversation with Polus in Plato’s Gor...
August 27, 2021 at 08:35