Sublime

Still more surprising is the statement that, although military commanders have power of life and death over their soldiers, they have no power of taking money. (It follows that, in any army, it would be wrong to punish minor breaches of discipline by fines, but permissible to punish them by bodily injury, such as flogging. This shows the absurd len

to convince someone of a view by providing good reasons.

Locke, as we saw, believed pleasure to be the good, and this was the prevalent view among empiricists throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Their opponents, on the contrary, despised pleasure as ignoble, and had various systems of ethics which seemed more exalted. Hobbes valued power, and Spinoza, up to a point, agreed with Hobbes.

D’autres universitaires n’ont pas cédé sur le caractère utile de la philosophie aujourd’hui, comme Pierre Hadot ou Martha Nussbaum. J’ai contribué à diriger un groupe de philosophie, le London philosophy club, auquel ont participé de nombreux universitaires, partageant ainsi avec nous leur savoir, gratuitement. La philosophie dans la rue et la phil

Even a strong inductive argument from indisputable evidence is open to refutation unless we are assured that it has taken account of all relevant evidence.

Much of the debate over Wokeness, as I’ve endeavored to show, is actually a debate over whether truth—that is, a correspondence between what’s thought and said and a reality that exists independently—can be had.

The only reply that I can imagine to this difficulty is one which is perhaps logically unassailable, but is not very plausible. It would, I think, be given by Kant, whose ethical system is very similar to that of the Stoics. True, he might say, there is nothing good but the good will, but the will is good when it is directed to certain ends, that,