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47Metaphors We Live ByRoyal Institute of Philosophy Lecture Series 18 43-58. 1984.Aside from aperçus of Kant, Nietzsche, and of course, Aristotle, metaphor has not, until recently, received its due. The dominant view has been Hobbes': metaphors are an ‘abuse’ of language, less dangerous than ordinary equivocation only because they ‘profess their inconstancy’.
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33The Free ManRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 15 131-145. 1983.Not long after the historian, Seeley, had defined ‘perfect liberty’ as ‘the absence of all government’, Oscar Wilde wrote that a man can be totally free even in that granite embodiment of governmental constraint, prison. Ten years after Mill's famous defence of civil freedoms, On Liberty, Richard Wagner declaimed:I'll put up with everything—police, soldiers, muzzling of the press, limits on parliament… Freedom of the spiriti is the only thing for men to be proud of and which raises them above an…Read more
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CLARK, STEPHEN R. L. Limits and Renewals: Volume 3 God's World and the Great Awakening (review)Philosophy 68 (n/a): 244. 1993.
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65Wittgenstein, Heidegger and HumilityPhilosophy 72 (279): 105-123. 1997.In 1929, doubtless to the discomfort of his logical positivist host Moritz Schlick, Wittgenstein remarked, ‘To be sure, I can understand what Heidegger means by Being and Angst’. I return to what Heidegger meant and Wittgenstein could understand later. I begin with that remark because it has had an instructive career. When the passage which it prefaced was first published in 1965, the editors left it out—presumably to protect a hero of ‘analytic’ philosophy from being compromised by an expressio…Read more
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22Collective Responsibility—Again: PHILOSOPHYPhilosophy 44 (168): 153-155. 1969.I shall not try to deal with all of the interesting points Mr. R. S. Downie raises against my paper, Collective Responsibility . I shall deal with a matter of clarification, one of the lesser issues between us, and the major issue between us. . On one point, surely, Downie has simply misunderstood what I said. He claims that my criticisms do not work against the common view that Responsibility is analytically tied to blameworthiness; but only apainst the claim that Responsibility is analytically…Read more
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86Daoism, Nature and HumanityRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 74 95-108. 2014.This paper sympathetically explores Daoism's relevance to environmental philosophy and to the aspiration of people to live in a manner convergent with nature. After discussing the Daoist understanding of nature and the dao (Way), the focus turns to the implications of these notions for our relationship to nature. The popular idea that Daoism encourages a return to a way of life is rejected. Instead, it is shown that the Daoist proposal is one of living more than people generally do in the modern…Read more
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27Bahm, Archie J.(1995) epistemology (albuquerque: World books). Bloom Irene (trs)(1995) knowledge painfully acquired (columbia university press). Bracken, Joseph A.(1995) 77a; divine matrix (new York: Orbis books). Bronkhorst, Johannes & ramseier, Yves (1994) word index to the prasastapadabhasya (delhi: Motilal banarsidass) (review)Asian Philosophy 6 (2): 171. 1996.
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13Truthfulness and 'inclusion'in archaeologyIn Chris Scarre & Geoffrey Scarre (eds.), The Ethics of Archaeology: Philosophical Perspectives on Archaeological Practice, Cambridge University Press. pp. 131--145. 2006.
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61S0ren KierkegaardIn Robert C. Solomon & David L. Sherman (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to Continental Philosophy, Blackwell. pp. 12--43. 2003.
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2El pensamiento indio del siglo XXIn Manuel Garrido (ed.), El Legado Filosófico y Científico Del Siglo Xx, Cátedra. pp. 957--972. 2005.
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Truth and liberal educationIn Paul Heywood Hirst, Robin Barrow & Patricia White (eds.), Beyond Liberal Education: Essays in Honour of Paul H. Hirst, Routledge. pp. 30--48. 1993.
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33HeideggerClaridge Press. 1996.With clear philosophical judgement, Cooper guides the reader through the novel concepts of Heideggerian metaphysics, explores the arguments used to introduce ...
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22Delusions of modesty: A reply to my criticsJournal of Philosophy of Education 15 (1). 1981.David E Cooper; Delusions of Modesty: a reply to my critics, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 15, Issue 1, 30 May 2006, Pages 125–135, https://doi.org.
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15Heidegger, philosophy, nazism by Julian young. Cambridge university press, 1977, pp. XV + 232Philosophy 73 (2): 305-324. 1998.
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33Grammar and the possession of conceptsJournal of Philosophy of Education 7 (2). 1973.David E Cooper; Grammar and the Possession of Concepts, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 7, Issue 2, 30 May 2006, Pages 204–222, https://doi.org/10.11.
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50Technology: Liberation or Enslavement?Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 38 7-18. 1995.The week, twenty-five years ago, of the Apollo spacecraft's return visit to the moon was described by Richard Nixon as the greatest since the Creation. Across the Atlantic, a French Academician judged the same event to matter less than the discovery of a lost etching by Daumier. Attitudes to technological achievement, then, differ. And they always have. Chuang-Tzu, over 2,000 years ago, relates an exchange between a Confucian passer-by and a Taoist gardener watering vegetables with a bucket draw…Read more
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165Modern mythology: the case of 'Reactionary Modernism'History of the Human Sciences 9 (2): 25-37. 1996.
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118Reviews : David Farrell Krell and David Wood (eds), Exceedingly Nietzsche: Aspects of Contemporary Nietzsche Interpretation, London: Rout- ledge, 1988, £15.95, xvi + 179 pp (review)History of the Human Sciences 2 (1): 111-113. 1989.
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18Human Sentiment and the Future of WildlifeEnvironmental Values 2 (4). 1993.Identifying what is wrong with the demise of wildlife requires prior identification of the human sentiment which is offended by that demise. Attempts to understand this in terms of animal rights (individual or species) and the benefits of wildlife to human beings or the wider environment are rejected. A diagnosis of this sentiment is attempted in terms of our increasing admiration, in the conditions of modernity and postmodernity, for the 'harmony' or 'at homeness' of wild animals with their env…Read more
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