'Whether Kant’s views about inclination were being defended or attacked, whether the emotions were being praised or blamed, the conventional style of Anglo-American philosophical prose, usually prevailed: a style correct, scientific, abstract, hygienically pallid, a style that seemed to be regarded as a kind of all-purpose solvent in which philosophical issues of any kind at all could be efficiently disentangled, and any and all conclusions neatly disengaged. That there might be other ways of being precise, other conceptions of lucidity and completeness that might be held to be more appropriate for ethical thought—this was, on the whole, neither asserted or even denied.'
—Martha Nussbaum, ‘Form and Content: Philosophy and Literature,’ in her collection Love’s Knowledge, 1990.
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