March 2011
6 posts
Aristotle: those who teach...
“And in general, a sign that distinguishes those who know from those who do not is their ability to teach. Hence we think craft, rather than experience, is knowledge, since craftsmen teach, while merely experienced people cannot.” —Aristotle Metaphysics book 1 Posted via email from Quote for the day | Comment »
Your Descartes quote of the day...
“For it is not enough to have a good mind, rather the main thing is to apply it well.” —Rene Descartes Discourse on Method Sec. 1 Posted via email from Quote for the day | Comment »
Wittgenstein: "leave a dozen white sheets for the...
Wittgenstein in a letter to Ogden, the eventual publisher of the Tractatus, May 5, 1922: “Rather than print the Erganzungen [supplements] to make the book fatter leave a dozen white sheets for the reader to swear into when he has purchased the book and can’t understand it.” pg. 6 James Klagge’s Wittgenstein in Exile MIT Press 2011 Posted via email from...
political double-speak
“Republicans so often tout the term ‘markets’ but it’s double-speak.” —Nick Nichols Posted via email from Quote for the day | Comment »
Zizek's beard
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Leiter on Foucault, Weber, and postmodernism
Brian Leiter:Much of Foucault’s corpus is of a piece with the Weberian project of analyzing the “iron cage” of the modern world, though Foucault locates the features of the cage in places Weber had not thought about (e.g., in the concepts of “normality” promulgated by the human sciences). Foucault’s notion of a genealogical inquiry is, insofar as it is borrowed...
