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“A truthmaker is an entity in virtue of which the proposition it makes true is true. And it is a necessary condition of being a truthmaker (though not a sufficient one) that a truthmaker necessitates the proposition it makes true.”

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Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra, born on August 7, 1969, is an individual whose identity and profession remain unclear. more

“Kant argued that, where nature could be considered beautiful in her acts of destruction, human violence appeared instead as monstrous. However, a misreading of Kant in Romantic philosophy led to the idealization of the murderer as a sublime genius that has colored constructions of that criminal figure ever since.”

Humans Philosophy Beautiful Violence Figures Genius Destruction Criminals Construction Sublime Murderer Monstrous Misreading

Author:Richard Marshall

“I wanted to see what it means to think about taking responsibility for one's own desires and choosing to foreground desire as an ethical principle. I also wanted to find ways of asking what the limits of agency are for subjectivities that are not unmarked or hegemonic.”

Thinking Way Mean Wanted Desire Responsibility Principles Limits Asking Agency Ethical Taking Responsibility Subjectivity Foreground Ethical Principles

Author:Richard Marshall

“I would say I am very much more interested in ethics than in code/ morality. I think it's in this way that one avoids the conservatism inherent in "the moral".”

Thinking Way Moral Morality Ethics Code Inherent Conservatism

Author:Richard Marshall

“Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.”

Care Next Justice

Book:Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio ... Opera Omnia Quatuor Voluminibus Comprehensa: Containing, I. His Natural history. II. Physiological and medical remains. III. The new Atlantis. IV. His Apothegms. V. Essays. VI. Colours of good and evil. VII. History of the reign of Henry VII. VIII. History of Henry VIII. IX. Beginning of the history of Great Britain. X. Of a war with Spain. XI. Of an holy war. XII. The history of the office of alienations. XIII. Advice to the Duke of Buckingham, Sir Geor

Source: Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio ... Opera Omnia Quatuor Voluminibus Comprehensa: Containing, I. His Natural history. II. Physiological and medical remains. III. The new Atlantis. IV. His Apothegms. V. Essays. VI. Colours of good and evil. VII. History of the reign of Henry VII. VIII. History of Henry VIII. IX. Beginning of the history of Great Britain. X. Of a war with Spain. XI. Of an holy war. XII. The history of the office of alienations. XIII. Advice to the Duke of Buckingham, Sir Geor

“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.”

Source: The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland: And a Criticism on Their Works

“I like the idea of being a postmodern moral philosopher - or perhaps a perverse moral philosopher.”

Ideas Moral Philosopher Postmodern

Author:Richard Marshall

“I wanted to write a book that showed how the subjectification of the "the murderer" has changed little in over a hundred years, and to argue that this "exceptional figure" serves a conservative function in modern culture that bears closer interrogation than it has commonly received.”

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Author:Richard Marshall

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