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De la teoría de los colores de Goethe a la interacción del color de Albers
En este artículo se plantea un hilo conductor básico entre la Teoría de los Colores, de Goethe y la Interacción del color, de Albers. Para Goethe, el color tenía un efecto sensible-moral y podía ser puesto al servicio de los más elevados fines estéticos,
José Antonio Franco Taboada
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Schopenhauer on the aimlessness of the will
Abstract Schopenhauer asserts that ‘the will, which is objectified in human life as it is in every appearance, is a striving without aim and without end.’ The chapter interprets this as follows: however many specific aims of my specific desires I manage to attain, none is a final aim, in the sense that none terminates my ‘willing as a ...
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Speaking for Dionysus: Empathy and choral advocacy in Aristotle and Nietzsche
Abstract This essay argues for an abiding connection between empathy and advocacy by revealing their unrecognized parallels in Aristotle and Nietzsche. The argument makes three new claims. First, I identify an ancient form of sharing emotions, unnamed in but fundamental to Aristotle's Rhetoric, that I call “empathy by analogy.” Next, I show that the ...
Ellwood Wiggins
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G.H. von Wright's Biographical Sketch of Ludwig Wittgenstein
ABSTRACT The article presents the history of Georg Henrik von Wright's well‐known biographical sketch of Ludwig Wittgenstein, which first appeared in English in 1955 and was later included in Norman Malcolm's Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir. It will be shown that von Wright, during the years 1954–1984, published as many as six versions of the ...
Bernt Österman
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ABSTRACT IDEAS IN THE SHADOW-LINE [PDF]
Conrad's The shadow-line is about the value of experience. The unnamed narrator's first command, an unmerited miracle, symbolically represents the crossing of the shadow line, or simply, the boundary between youth and maturity.
Armela Panajoti
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Adorno's empiricism?: On intellectual and metaphysical experience
Abstract Adorno's work contains pregnant references to the concepts of both “intellectual” and “metaphysical” experience. While the concept of metaphysical experience figures relatively prominently in the Adorno literature, intellectual experience has been largely neglected—indeed to the point that certain scholars have asserted that the two concepts ...
Tom Whyman
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A Manifest against Optimism and Self-consciousness: A Critique of the Philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer Based on the Book of "Ethics, Law, and Politics” [PDF]
The book of Ethics, Law, and Politics includes the translation of the essays by famous German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. The various sections of the book encompass concrete issues that Schopenhauer has, like any other philosopher, expounded on the ...
Reza Nasiri Hamed
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Street Cries and Public Space Noise Abatement in 19th‐20th Century Barcelona
Abstract Focusing on Barcelona, this paper explores the historical and contemporary dynamics of street cries that allow traders to attract customers and make themselves heard in public spaces. While still common in marketplaces in southern Europe, there is a growing trend towards silencing these street cries in the name of reducing urban noise levels ...
Maria Lindmäe
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Towards an Object-Oriented Ethics: Schopenhauer, Spinoza, and the Physics of Objective Evil
Objects are inert, passive, devoid of will, and as such bear no intrinsic value or moral worth. This claim is supported by the argument that to be considered a moral agent one must have a conscious will and be sufficiently free to act in accordance with ...
Dalton Drew M.
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