Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Sep 11, 2025
“It is hard to find a #philosopher who writes well. One can list the good stylists on one hand: #BernardWilliams, for the clear frankness of his prose; #StanleyCavell, whose writing self-reflectively folds in on itself like origami; Friedrich #Nietzsche …” aeon.co/essays/how-d...

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How David Hume split literature from philosophy | Aeon Essays

Hume distrusted literature and worked to discredit character sketches as legitimate forms of philosophy

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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Sep 1, 2025
“ #Tragedy is the necessity of having your own experience and learning from it; #comedy is the possibility of having it in good time.” - #StanleyCavell, Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage. #philosophy
Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦May 16, 2025
“Successive encounters of a work are not necessarily cumulative; a later one may overturn earlier ones or may be empty.” - #StanleyCavell, Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage #art #WorksOfArt #aesthetics #interpretation
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Show threadDon Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦May 12, 2025
2 “ … and this on the basis of no expert knowledge, of nothing closed to the ordinary human being, once, that is to say, that being lets himself or herself be informed by the process and ambition of #philosophy.” - #StanleyCavell, Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage
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Show threadAndrew ShieldsApr 27, 2023

@vjoshuaadams I dug up that it’s Cavell! It’s a nice passage. It reminds me of step 3 of Nietzsche’s “How the True World Finally Became a Fable”:

3. The true world — unattainable, indemonstrable, unpromisable; but the very thought of it — a consolation, an obligation, an imperative.

(At bottom, the old sun, but seen through mist and skepticism. The idea has become elusive, pale, Nordic, Königsbergian.)

[I don’t know whose translation this is.]

#ImmanuelKant #StanleyCavell #FriedrichNietzsche