Many of the greatest works of philosophy seem to me to be valuable not because of their arguments, but because they offer… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Philosophers ought to aspire to know lots of different things and to forge useful synthetic perspectives. — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
My ideal of conversation that includes wide representation of perspectives, informed by the consensus view of current experts, pursued with an attempt… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Mann was profoundly influenced by two philosophers, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, who returned to the most ancient of all philosophical questions - "How… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
For anyone who conceives literature in terms of plurality of perspectives, Finnegans Wake has to be the apogee. For, as we are… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Philosophy by showing - including philosophy in literature - does truly valuable work in leading us to new perspectives from which our… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I'm often quite gloomy about the prospects for the human future. But, although I have no competence to intervene directly in a… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
In working towards ways of reading Mann, so that his own advances in suggesting new perspectives will become more vivid, I do… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Mann was less interested, I think, in constructing any kind of "portrait of an age" than he was in delineating an individual… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Mann was conscious of adopting different perspectives in different parts of the novella, but my guess is that there are plenty of… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I'm a pluralist about perspectives on literature. There seem to me to be all sorts of illuminating ways of responding to major… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Both Proust and Joyce record the ways in which human perspectives can be transformed. In Portrait, Stephen Dedalus is constantly undergoing epiphanies,… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
The moment in which the narrator, reaching for his boots, becomes vividly and lastingly aware of the finality of his grandmother's death… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I think the tone of mockery Heller finds is a part of Mann's irony, but only a part - a brilliant further… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I'm a fan of Hugh Kenner, Richard Ellman, Lionel Trilling and Frank Kermode. All these people have taught me how to read - but… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Refined religion is aimed at realizing ethical values, including the fostering of human lives and human communities. — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Many of the greatest works of philosophy seem to me to be valuable not because of their arguments, but because they offer us perspectives… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
As I read Mann in German for the first time, the full achievement - both literary and philosophical - of Death in Venice struck… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Look at Mann's reading habits, his explicit comments on Nietzsche, and his copy of Birth of Tragedy, and it starts to seem doubtful that… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
My ethical naturalism sees us as facing the predicament of being social animals without evolved adaptations that make social life easy. The fundamental problem… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
So my methodological approach is to draw on many different features in highlighting different facets of the novella (and the opera and the film). — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
In my view, we ought to replace the notion of analytic philosophy by that of synthetic philosophy. — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Philosophers ought to aspire to know lots of different things and to forge useful synthetic perspectives. — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
The balance between literature and philosophy in Schopenhauer and Nietzsche is different from that struck in the novella, but, as Mann clearly pointed out… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I don't think that anything of any consequence is known a priori: all our knowledge is built up by modifying the lore passed on… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Because the problems are objective features of the human situation - social animals without the capacities for making social life come easily - ethics… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
