[lit-ideas] Re: the fortunes of philosophy

I was in love with MN even before we had her over at MUN a few years back now.
It was her writing - not so much her "philosophical" texts, but rather her
works on education and the cultivation of a cosmopolitan disposition. So I'm
hardly in an impartial position to judge the philosophical worth of her remarks
below. Perhaps others, less enchanted by the allures of her physical and
intellectual presence, wish to offer commentary ....

Walter O
MUN




Quoting Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>:

> '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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