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… — Alexander Nehamas Copy Share Image
This is a major, wide-ranging, and comprehensive book. A philosophical investigation that is also a literary and historical study, Truth and Truthfulness asks how and why we have come to think of accuracy, sincerity, and authenticity as virtues. Bernard Williams'… — Alexander Nehamas Copy Share Image
“I will tell you why I became a philosopher. I became a philosopher because I wanted to be able to talk about many, many… — Alexander Nehamas Copy Share Image
So long as we find anything beautiful, we feel that we have not yet exhausted what [life] has to offer […] That forward-looking element… — Alexander Nehamas Copy Share Image
My own view is that friendship is essential to our becoming who we are. It provides a context within which we can, more or… — Alexander Nehamas Copy Share Image
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… — Alexander Nehamas Copy Share Image
To find something beautiful is to hope that your life will be better if that is a part of it. Unfortunately, the promise of… — Alexander Nehamas Copy Share Image
To emphasize the importance of beauty is to connect art again to emotion and desire. To find something or someone beautiful is not simply… — Alexander Nehamas Copy Share Image
This is a major, wide-ranging, and comprehensive book. A philosophical investigation that is also a literary and historical study, Truth and Truthfulness asks how… — Alexander Nehamas Copy Share Image
In contrast to the values of morality, which depend on and encourage our similarities to each other, values like friendship or beauty depend on… — Alexander Nehamas Copy Share Image
“But is eternity an alternative to life? Isn't it, on the contrary, the case that it is when one wants everything to be eternal… — Alexander Nehamas Copy Share Image
My view is that friendship permeates human life and is involved in almost everything we think, feel, and do. For that very reason, there… — Alexander Nehamas Copy Share Image
It is clear that friendship is by and large crucial to human life. And I believe, in contrast with most of the philosophical tradition… — Alexander Nehamas Copy Share Image