Does the unmistakeable intent of Versailles to proclaim dominion over nature destroy its aesthetic appeal, as Schopenhauer thought? Does the greenness of… — David E. Cooper Aesthetic Copy Share Image
While I am happy to make the occasional foray into educational philosophy - writing, for example, of the difficulty in the contemporary… — David E. Cooper Being truthful Copy Share Image
Chuang Tzu and Heidegger both emphasise the virtue of 'spontaneity' - a sort of mindful responsiveness to things as they are. It's… — David E. Cooper Harmony Copy Share Image
For me, the existentialists are important critics of 'absolutist' claims, and Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty are, at least in their later writings, also… — David E. Cooper Claims Copy Share Image
As for the meaning of gardens, particular gardens may have, of course, all sorts of different meanings - emotive, historical, emblematic, religious,… — David E. Cooper Courses Copy Share Image
My 'heroes' are those - like Chuang Tzu and Heidegger - who recognize that the world of experience is a human world,… — David E. Cooper Heidegger Copy Share Image
The Overman will himself be a nihilist in the (good) sense of rejecting any metaphysical or religious grounding for truth and value,… — David E. Cooper Crowds Copy Share Image
There are really three players: 'absolutists', for whom it is possible to describe reality as it anyway is; 'constructivists' or 'humanists', for… — David E. Cooper Heidegger Copy Share Image
Like Nietzsche's own writings on education, most of mine were relatively youthful ones. Both were inspired by a critical animus against prevailing… — David E. Cooper Animus Copy Share Image
It's one thing to assent to propositions like 'The way of things is ineffable', and quite another to internalise what it is… — David E. Cooper Engaging Copy Share Image
The writing I have in mind and sometimes indulge in myself is concerned, not with plants, mountains or birds as items of… — David E. Cooper Bird Copy Share Image
It is indeed impossible to describe reality 'in itself', but that does not mean that our lives are answerable to nothing but… — David E. Cooper Commitment Copy Share Image
It would be through individual effort, inspired perhaps by reading Nietzsche's books, that the Overman might emerge, not through social or educational… — David E. Cooper Book Copy Share Image
Nietzsche's 'perspectivalism' was expressly directed against the 'laughable juxtaposition of "man and world"'. But 'absolutist' accounts, too, typically try to demonstrate that… — David E. Cooper Accounts Copy Share Image
Between nature and music there seems to be an elective affinity: they fit together, and when they do experiences of an ineffable… — David E. Cooper Affinity Copy Share Image
To describe this world is not to describe reality 'in itself', as it is independently of how we regard and describe it. — David E. Cooper Reality Copy Share Image
In the final analysis, all explanations of meaning, various as they are, serve to indicate how something is 'appropriate' in and to… — David E. Cooper Analysis Copy Share Image
Gardening is an excellent example of a practice to which, as Alasdair MacIntyre puts it, certain virtues are 'internal'. Good gardening requires… — David E. Cooper Care Copy Share Image
Certainly each side - the 'absolutists' and the 'constructivists' or 'humanists', as I've labelled them - accuses the other of hubris, and… — David E. Cooper Accounts Copy Share Image
I rather shared Nietzsche's conception of the kind of individual that an ideal education should be cultivating. 'Authenticity' is not Nietzsche's term,… — David E. Cooper Antidote Copy Share Image
To recognize that you are radically free, in Sartre's sense, but then to live as if you weren't, is to live in… — David E. Cooper Being true Copy Share Image
The dis-incumbenced stance is the one people should cultivate, we are told, once they recognize that there is no world beyond the… — David E. Cooper Belief Copy Share Image
I started my professional life as a philosopher of language and for several years took the orthodox line that meaning is an… — David E. Cooper Anthropology Copy Share Image
