People are beginning to put together those inevitable “Best of 2009…” lists, so I thought I would jump on board the reflective December mood. Here are my Top 9 reads of 2009: the books and articles that had the greatest impact on my thinking this year.
1. Myles Burnyeat, ‘Culture and Society in Plato’s Republic‘, Harvard [...]
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Top 9 of 2009
Posted in Gary Gutting, John McDowell, John Rawls, Myles Burnyeat, Onora O'Neill, Richard Rorty, Simon Critchley, Tom Wright on December 14, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Does Language Constrain or Liberate?
Posted in Gary Gutting, Joan Didion, Language, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Michel Foucault on October 9, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Christianity is sometimes criticized for the language it insists on employing. For example, Christians are expected to assent to, recite, and perhaps even memorize, certain carefully formulated Creeds. Christian leaders are often conservative with their use of language, insisting on employing a central list of locutions and phrases from by-gone eras (e.g. phrases like ‘of [...]
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