“The afflicted are nearly always equally deaf to one another; and each of them, constrained by the general indifference, strives by means of self-delusion or forgetfulness to become deaf to his own self.”
— Simone Weil, “Human Personality”
Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
This is Part 4 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1...
This is Part 3 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1...
This is Part 2 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1...
This is Part 1 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In this series...
Democracy is existential to its core, and the social question is key to its survival. Since large-scale transformations of society—including...
I taught this course as a large lecture course with 300 students, most of whom were there to complete General...
From Haverford’s Philosophy Department website: “Roger Lin '25 and Ben Fitzgerald '26, the 2024-2025 Philosophy Student Representatives, pose as Plato...
[Revised entry by Ofra Magidor on January 7, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] Category mistakes are sentences such...
