Vol. 41, No. 2, 1986 of Rivista di Storia della Filosofia.
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In An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections, with Illustrations on the Moral Sense, Francis Hutcheson answers the criticism that had been leveled against his first book, Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1725).
Giuseppe Barbieri Immagini e parole by Ernst H. Gombrich 2 The essays by Gombrich collected in this volume cover a considerable time span, from 1950 to 1998. During that period, the two terms that compose the title of the collection ( pictures and words) have evolved in their cultural meaning, and.
Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Presentation—trans. Richard E. Aquila in collaboration with David Carus (New York: Longman, 2008). Schopenhauer’s saying that “a man can do as he will, but not will as he will” has been an inspiration to me since my youth up, and a continual consolation and unfailing well-spring of patience in the face of the hardships of life, my own and others.
Professor Hintikka’s epistemology, language, and logic courses (over a dozen), our many after-class conversations in his office, along with Hintikka’s crystalline in-depth explications on Wittgenstein, inspired my epistemic study of language games on aesthetic theory, published as Abstract Objects, Ideal Forms, and Works of Art: An Epistemic and Aesthetic Analysis.
During his days as Harvard's influential president, Charles W. Eliot made a frequent assertion: If you were to spend just 15 minutes a day reading the right books, a quantity that could fit on a five foot shelf, you could give yourself a proper liberal education. The publisher P. F. Collier and Son loved the idea and asked Eliot to assemble the right collection of works.
In her research she has always combined her interest in philosophy with that of literature, focusing, in particular, on the issue of the inadequacy of verbal language as exemplified by her books: A Fragrance from the Desert: Poetry and Philosophy in Giacomo Leopardi, Carlo Michelstaedter and the Failure of Language, Pirandello and His Muse: The Plays for Marta Abba, and in some recent essays.