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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... opening word Socrates is already speaking . ( To whom ? To us ? But still on the first page it is noted that speech ... opening of the allegory of Cave , which is the opening of the journey to philosophy , to be Plato's por- trait of the ...
... opening words of this text , indeed all the words , are those of Socrates ? But does it really seem that Socrates has indeed spoken first ? Do not the opening words " I went down to the Piraeus yesterday " rather unmis- takably imply ...
... opening of the film is a montage of summer playfulness on some seacoast a train ride , then a ferry ride , from Paris . ( I ask nothing much right off from the knowledge that Shakespeare's tale moving by sea between Sicilia and Bohemia ...
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 |