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What Would Hegel Do?
I called myself a Hegelian for much of my academic career. Though that field is usually assigned to Continental Philosophy, the chair of one highly-regarded – and predominantly Analytic – philosophy department to which I’d applied told me that my … Continue reading →
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Persecution and the Art of Writing
Persecution and the Art of Writing That’s the catchy title of a book published in the 1950’s by a man named Leo Strauss – initially derided, later enormously influential. Outside philosophy and political theory, Strauss’s name is not generally … Continue reading →
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“Cool”
“Cool” It is a fact of social life – perhaps a bizarre fact – that needful and strenuous efforts can be overshadowed by someone, anyone, who is dubbed “cool.” It’s a praise word that shines on the just and the … Continue reading →
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Tagged Cool, dialectic, Hegel, history of ideas, life and death struggle, master, Phenomenology of the Mind, philosophy, slave
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