[lit-ideas] the fortunes of philosophy
- From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:46:53 -0700
'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.
Robert Paul
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