To emphasize the importance of beauty is to connect art again to emotion and desire. To find something or someone beautiful is not simply to appreciate what you now see or know about them. It also involves the desire to get to know them better, in the hope that what you will discover will, in some way that you can't know at the time, make your life better, just as your relationship with it so far has also made it better.
My own view is that friendship is essential to our becoming who we are. It provides a context within which we can, more or less safely, try different… - Alexander Nehamas
My own view is that friendship is essential to our becoming who we are. It provides a context within which we can, more or less safely, try different…
- Alexander Nehamas
It is clear that friendship is by and large crucial to human life. And I believe, in contrast with most of the philosophical tradition deriving from … - Alexander Nehamas
It is clear that friendship is by and large crucial to human life. And I believe, in contrast with most of the philosophical tradition deriving from …
In contrast to the values of morality, which depend on and encourage our similarities to each other, values like friendship or beauty depend on and e… - Alexander Nehamas
In contrast to the values of morality, which depend on and encourage our similarities to each other, values like friendship or beauty depend on and e…
This is a major, wide-ranging, and comprehensive book. A philosophical investigation that is also a literary and historical study, Truth and Truthful… - Alexander Nehamas
This is a major, wide-ranging, and comprehensive book. A philosophical investigation that is also a literary and historical study, Truth and Truthful…
So long as we find anything beautiful, we feel that we have not yet exhausted what [life] has to offer […] That forward-looking element is … insepara… - Alexander Nehamas
So long as we find anything beautiful, we feel that we have not yet exhausted what [life] has to offer […] That forward-looking element is … insepara…
To emphasize the importance of beauty is to connect art again to emotion and desire. To find something or someone beautiful is not simply to apprecia… - Alexander Nehamas
To emphasize the importance of beauty is to connect art again to emotion and desire. To find something or someone beautiful is not simply to apprecia…
Beauty can be as dangerous as evil can be beautiful. But that is just another aspect of the double edge of non-moral values. Both beauty and friends … - Alexander Nehamas
Beauty can be as dangerous as evil can be beautiful. But that is just another aspect of the double edge of non-moral values. Both beauty and friends …
My view is that friendship permeates human life and is involved in almost everything we think, feel, and do. For that very reason, there is no behavi… - Alexander Nehamas
My view is that friendship permeates human life and is involved in almost everything we think, feel, and do. For that very reason, there is no behavi…
To find something beautiful is to hope that your life will be better if that is a part of it. Unfortunately, the promise of a better life that beauty… - Alexander Nehamas
To find something beautiful is to hope that your life will be better if that is a part of it. Unfortunately, the promise of a better life that beauty…
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