Monday, July 20, 2020

Escaping from many mad masters...

Plato  Republic 1 329 c (Cohen, Curd, Reeve 3rd edition 2005 p 333)
"Quiet, man," the poet replied, "I am very glad to have escaped from all that, like a slave who has escaped from a savage and tyrannical master."  I thought at the time that he was right, and I still do, for old age brings peace and freedom from all such things.  When the appetites relax and cease to importune us, everything Sophocles said comes to pass, and we escaped from many mad masters.

Trying to unlearn bad habits...

7.20.2020 I'm exhausted... where has the year gone to? I'm sorry I didn't get the message. Still working...try again...

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A Conceptual Genealogy of the Pittsburgh School: Between Kant and Hegel by Carl B. Sachs

Unlike the Vienna Circle or the Frankfurt School, the Pittsburgh School was never self-consciously constituted as a coherent or even semi-coherent group by adopting this label. Rather, it seems to have been chosen as a retrospective name that functions to draw our attention to three prominent 20th-and 21st-century philosophers whose work exhibits important commonalities and whose influence has been considerable: Wilfrid Sellars (1912-1989), Robert Brandom (1950 -), and John McDowell(1942-).