“Nietzsche's 'perspectivalism' was expressly directed against the 'laughable juxtaposition of "man and world"'. But 'absolutist' accounts, too, typically try to demonstrate that human beings are integral components of the world these accounts articulate - that, for example, we are simply material bodies subject to the same natural processes as everything else.” MenWorldTryingHumansBodyProcessNaturalHuman BeingsSubjectsExampleMaterialsAccountsComponentsJuxtapositionLaughable Author:David E. Cooper
“It's as if, for Schopenhauer and perhaps Kant, the mind is there up and running, equipped with its categories and concepts that it then projects or smears, as it were, over what impinges upon it from the outside. This is not the image you find in, for example, Chuang Tzu: minds and nature are inseparably fused in an ever-changing whole of experience that, so to speak, constantly wells up from an indescribable source in a process that Daoists call 'the way' or 'the course'.” IfsWayMindWellsWholeRunningCoursesSpeakProcessExampleSourceProjectsConceptsCategoriesIndescribable Author:David E. Cooper
“Gardening is an excellent example of a practice to which, as Alasdair MacIntyre puts it, certain virtues are 'internal'. Good gardening requires a certain goodness on the part of the gardener: care, humility, patience, and respect, for example.” CareCertainPracticeVirtueExampleHumilityGoodnessExcellentInternalsGardeningGardener Author:David E. Cooper
“How people make gardens is bound to reflect a way of experiencing the natural world, while at the same time this experience of nature is bound to reflect a culture - ways of painting nature, for example, or representing nature in literature, or of course making gardens.” PeopleWorldWayCultureCoursesLiteratureNaturalExamplePaintingGardenBoundsNatural WorldRepresenting Author:David E. Cooper
“While I am happy to make the occasional foray into educational philosophy - writing, for example, of the difficulty in the contemporary context for a teacher to be 'truthful' - it is more the personal conduct of a life than social institutions that I am concerned to examine.” WritingPhilosophySocialTeacherExampleConcernedDifficultyInstitutionsEducationalContemporaryTruthfulOccasionalBeing TruthfulSocial Institutions Author:David E. Cooper