by Daniel A. Kaufman I want to talk about a certain metaphor in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. It appears in a lone sentence in Book III,
Category: This Week’s Special
This week’s specials consist of short pieces on classic articles or ideas in Philosophy or other Humanities, intended to spur discussion.
This Week’s Special: George Orwell’s, “Politics and the English Language”
by Daniel A. Kaufman Orwell’s influential essay, published in 1946, when considered alongside his “The Prevention of Literature” (1946) and the Appendix to 1984, “The
This Week’s Special: John Stuart Mill’s “Utilitarianism.”
by Daniel A. Kaufman http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/econ/ugcm/3ll3/mill/utilitarianism.pdf One of the two most well-known, most influential works in moral philosophy – the other is Kant’s Groundwork for the
This Week’s Special: Edmund Gettier, “Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?”
By Daniel A. Kaufman http://fitelson.org/proseminar/gettier.pdf On tap this week is one of the most widely read and influential essays in epistemology, written since the Second
This Week’s Special: Gottlob Frege’s, “On Sense and Reference.”
By Daniel A. Kaufman http://brommage.freeshell.org/tlp/Frege.pdf On tap this week is likely the single most influential paper in the philosophy of language, Gottlob Frege’s “On Sense
This Week’s Special: C.S. Lewis, “Meditation in a Toolshed”
By Daniel A. Kaufman Click to access meditation-in-a-toolshed.pdf On tap this week is a lovely little essay by C.S. Lewis that makes what I think