A Passion for Philosophy

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes Notes 1. This is part of the thesis of Scott Soames, Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, 2 vols (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004). 2. Isocrates, Helen 5. 3. The full definition of virtue, which is considerably more complicated, occurs in Nicomachean Ethics, II. 6, 1106b–1107a. 4. The citation reads “Nictzsche (sic.), Beyond Good and Evil, trans. W. Kaufmann (New York: Random House, 1967), §62.” In fact, the copyright date for this volume is 1968, the section number is 17, and Kaufmann's translation reads “a thought comes when ‘it’ wishes, and not when ‘I’ wish.” This is a minor error, of which many of us have been guilty, but it is not the only one

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