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“Alms for Oblivion”: An Essay on Objective Time and Experienced Time
If one should hesitate to ask the professional philosopher about time, having despaired of finding a viable definition of anything other than an abstract succession, it might be not unprofitable to inquire of ...
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On the Pattern of Phenomenological Method
History often appeared to the ancients to move in cycles, for their imaginations were dominated by seasonal periodicity and by the eternal return of life everywhere. St. Augustine, however, was directed by his...
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On the Phenomenon of Obligation
Why is one obligated? Or, indeed, is one obligated?
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The Visual Perception of Distance
In order to observe and to determine something about the character of the visual perception of distance, I shall offer an illustrative experience of visual remoteness and closeness freed, so far as possible, f...
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The Philosophy of Merleau-Ponty
The philosophic fashion of modern times is evidently to be analyzing something; as the prevailing interest in the United States is the analysis of specialized languages, in England the analysis of ordinary lan...
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On truth: Its nature, context, and source
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An Estimate of Dewey’s Art as Experience
John Dewey, like Thomas Mann, finds that modern civilization has in a paradoxical fashion managed to exclude from the current of its real life one of its own most important products: namely, fine art. The arti...
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Truth and Subjectivity
The account of truth as correspondence has done yeoman’s service for philosophers and doubtless will continue to do so. But it is often presented in an unnecessarily specialized form, as relevant, for example,...
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Conclusion and Criticism
It will be appropriate to close this study by recapitulating the way which we have chosen to follow through the Platonic dialogues. At the same time two additional questions will be briefly considered. Specifi...
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Introduction
The study of Plato may be likened to a passage or an attempted passage through a large and luxuriant grove. Through this grove an indefinite number of routes appear to be possible. Some of the apparent routes ...
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The Problem of Art or Techne
The Gorgias begins by asking who Gorgias is and means to inquire what art he practices (447C). Socrates suggests to Callicles that one will come to know himself by investigating the relations among notions such a...
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The Platonic Universe
That the part cannot be understood without the whole is a firm Platonic conviction1 whose full consequences only gradually became manifest. The physician cannot treat the ill organ alone but must treat the who...
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Socrates’ Moral Problem
The Oracle of Delphi, which found the sum of human wisdom in the expression “Know thyself,” also said that there was no man wiser than Socrates, from which one might conclude that no man knew himself better th...
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The Problem of Knowledge
The moral soul as conceived by Socrates became in the Republic the complex principle of political activity and of all practical life. In later dialogues the soul develops further in rational independence and tend...
