Cities of WordsHarvard University Press, 2004 M05 24 - 480 pages Since Socrates and his circle first tried to frame the Just City in words, discussion of a perfect communal life--a life of justice, reflection, and mutual respect--has had to come to terms with the distance between that idea and reality. Measuring this distance step by practical step is the philosophical project that Stanley Cavell has pursued on his exploratory path. Situated at the intersection of two of his longstanding interests--Emersonian philosophy and the Hollywood comedy of remarriage--Cavell's new work marks a significant advance in this project. The book--which presents a course of lectures Cavell presented several times toward the end of his teaching career at Harvard--links masterpieces of moral philosophy and classic Hollywood comedies to fashion a new way of looking at our lives and learning to live with ourselves. |
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... Locke's First Treatise of Government , which takes on Sir Robert Filmer's defense of the doctrine in his aptly named Patriarcha . The conclusion arrived at in Locke's First Treatise is inscribed in the opening of the Second Treatise ( I ...
... Locke deplores , imagining human life within it as " solitary , poor , nasty , brutish and short . " Locke does not equate the state of nature with the state of peace ... Locke Go back to Locke's description of the state of nature 57.
... Locke's state of nature is not , and was not meant to be , accurate history . But I shall assume something further ... Locke saw around him in the social arrangements of his day . Locke gives himself a chance to say that his idea of ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
John Stuart Mill 82 6 Gaslight | 102 |
Themes of Moral Perfectionism in Platos Republic | 445 |
Copyright | |
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Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life Stanley Cavell Limited preview - 2005 |