Ability Quote by Philip Kitcher

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

Refined religion is aimed at realizing ethical values, including the fostering of human lives and human communities.

— Philip Kitcher

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

As I read Mann in German for the first time, the full achievement - both literary and philosophical - of Death in Venice struck…

— Philip Kitcher

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

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

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

In my view, we ought to replace the notion of analytic philosophy by that of synthetic philosophy.

— Philip Kitcher

Philosophers ought to aspire to know lots of different things and to forge useful synthetic perspectives.

— Philip Kitcher

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

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

Because the problems are objective features of the human situation - social animals without the capacities for making social life come easily - ethics…

— Philip Kitcher