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Category Archives: Language
Writing
Is there a better thing than writing? While I’m not with the 20th century British philosophers who said language is all there is, I am with Aquinas. He’d say that, along with body and soul, language is a defining part … Continue reading
Posted in Achilles, Art, Language, Life, Odysseus, Writing
Tagged Blogging, iPhone, Relevant Complexity, Social Media, Thumb Tapping, Twitter, Wax Tablet, Writing
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King James Bible
Four hundred years of the King James Bible. The blood sweat and tears Of six writing panels Produced a text Which united a kingdom To post-Elizabethan revival. Still read today, Words of great majesty Hell, fire and brimstone Meet faith, … Continue reading
Posted in Language, Life, Odysseus, Poetry
Tagged 400 years, English History, King James Bible, Language, Majesty, Poetry, Power, Things which creepeth
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Philia
I do feel – and feel is the right word – that Herbert McCabe’s ‘On Aquinas’ deserves a wider audience. So many important themes, from so many thinkers, rendered limpid in a thesis all of his own. Of course there’s … Continue reading
Posted in Aristotle, Language, Life, Philosophy, Politics
Tagged Aquinas, Aristotle, Care, Friendship, Herbert McCabe, Justice, On Aquinas, Philia, Society
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Language
Re-reading a chapter of Herbert McCabe’s ‘On Aquinas’ last night, the outline of a new understanding emerged from the complex conceptual haze of the ‘philosophy of language’. Language is the means through which we transcend individual experience and share our … Continue reading
Posted in Aristotle, Language, Life, Philosophy, Psychology
Tagged Aquinas, Aristotle, Herbert McCabe, Montaigne, Private Language Argument, We are what we write, Wittgenstein
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Sacre Bleu
A splendid weekend en famille à Paris was marred only by two extraordinarily slooowly served meals. I’d write Zzzzz. But with four children, from 4 to 8 years old, over an hour of waiting – each time – for any … Continue reading
Posted in Language, Life, Psychology
Tagged Can't Beat 'em, French People, La Belle France, Life, Paris, Splendidly Rude, Surly Service
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Rhetoric
I’ve been doing a lot of presentations on strategy in the last few weeks. The good news is people say it’s all very clear. They like it. “A lot better than it was too” some say. I acknowledge, slightly wistfully, … Continue reading
Posted in Aristotle, Ethics, Language, Life, Philosophy, Poetry, Politics, Psychology, Work
Tagged A natural disposition for the true, Aristotle, Clarity, Credibility, Eloquence, Ethos, Intestine Commotions, Logos, Long chains of inferences, Montaigne, Pathos, Soaring Rhetoric, Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, Strategy
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Poppies
On holiday in France, I started reading Herbert McCabe on St Thomas Aquinas. I’d heard Sir Anthony Kenny in a ‘Philosophy Bites’ podcast describing Aquinas as deserving as much attention from we moderns as Aquinas himself paid to Aristotle in … Continue reading
Posted in Aristotle, Language, Life
Tagged Aquinas, Aristotle, Atomism, Britannica's Great Books, Charante-Maritime, France, Herbert McCabe, Holism, Language, Marennes, Medieval, Montaigne, Philosophy Bites, Poppies, Redness, Sir Anthony Kenny
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