“What constituted the success of my books is what constitutes their falsehood for me. In fact, I am an average man with an exigency. The values I ought to defend and illustrate today are average values. This requires a talent so spare and unadorned that I doubt I have it.”
– Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1942-1951
Read the full article which is published on Philosophy Bits (external link)This is Part 4 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1...
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This is Part 1 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In this series...
“What constituted the success of my books is what constitutes their falsehood for me. In fact, I am an average...
In Race Matters, Cornel West anticipates a dilemma that continues to shape American intellectual life. He observes that the massive...
philosophybits: “I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.” — Socrates, in Plutarch’s Moralia
“Everyday language is a part of the human organism and is no less complicated than it.” - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus...
