What impressed me about Plato and Sartre was their conviction that we should live our lives in the light of big truths… — David E. Cooper Bigs Copy Share Image
The main objection to the 'scientistic' claim that physics describes the world as it is in itself is that you 'can't weed… — David E. Cooper Claims Copy Share Image
It's as if, for Schopenhauer and perhaps Kant, the mind is there up and running, equipped with its categories and concepts that… — David E. Cooper Categories Copy Share Image
I don't think we should just 'muddle through' and ignore the question of life's meaning. Or better, perhaps, I don't think it… — David E. Cooper Ambition Copy Share Image
In all great civilizations, garden discourses have belonged to larger discourses about beauty, the good life, the relation of humankind to nature,… — David E. Cooper Beauty Copy Share Image
There is something myopic and stunted in focussing only on the meaning of words and sentences. And this myopia is especially unfortunate… — David E. Cooper Abstract Copy Share Image
It turns out, in fact, that 'theories of meaning' are typically not about meaning in an everyday or 'folk' sense at all.… — David E. Cooper Components Copy Share Image
In the doctrine of the world and humankind as 'will to power and nothing else', Heidegger identified not an antidote to nihilism,… — David E. Cooper Antidote Copy Share Image
How people make gardens is bound to reflect a way of experiencing the natural world, while at the same time this experience… — David E. Cooper Bounds Copy Share Image
The focus of environmental ethics should indeed be on the virtues and how these inform our relationship to natural environments. — David E. Cooper Character Copy Share Image
For many years, questions about the meaning of life were dismissed as senseless. We were told that life, not being a word… — David E. Cooper Couple Copy Share Image
I'm very sceptical about the prospects for 'big' environmental causes - 'saving the planet', halving the world's population, ending the exploitation of… — David E. Cooper Animal Copy Share Image
I think that Asian versions of 'ineffabilism' have an advantage over the best-known Western ones, like Schopenhauer's. They are free from the… — David E. Cooper Advantage Copy Share Image
The aim of dis-incumbence is a hubristic one, for it requires confidence in the ability of men and women to live in… — David E. Cooper Ability Copy Share Image
There is no reason at all to think that creatures with very different purposes and concerns would arrive at the scientific image,… — David E. Cooper Animal Copy Share Image
The garden is as good a symbol as you can find of a dialectic between spheres of experience - of culture and… — David E. Cooper Culture Copy Share Image
An abiding and central concern of philosophy and religion alike is the fear that the world is alien to human beings, that… — David E. Cooper Abiding Copy Share Image
Things only 'show up' for us as they do, as Heidegger would put, in and through practical engagements with the world that… — David E. Cooper Engagement Copy Share Image
I think it's true that for existentialist thinkers, appreciation of what we are - free, makers of meaning, 'issues' for ourselves, and… — David E. Cooper Appreciation Copy Share Image
I was keen to dispel a familiar misunderstanding: that existentialists somehow relish the alienation of human beings from the world. This may… — David E. Cooper Alienation Copy Share Image
One thing that attracts me in Daoism and Heidegger is a delicate combination of recognizing deep differences between human being and any… — David E. Cooper Animal Copy Share Image
The question of meaning goes all the way down: if human life as a whole is meaningless, so is everything that occurs… — David E. Cooper Easy Copy Share Image
Like Nietzsche, Heidegger also gave up on the prospect that schools and universities would nurture the kind of reflective openness to the… — David E. Cooper Figures Copy Share Image
The demands of the economy, and more recently those of political correctness and the diktat against ever offending anyone, are not conducive… — David E. Cooper Classroom Copy Share Image
It is hubris, claim the critics of 'absolutism', to suppose that we could ever even approximate to a true description of how… — David E. Cooper Absolutism Copy Share Image
