FORGETTING AND THE TASK OF SEEING: Ordinary Oblivion, Plato, and Ethics
The gaps, fissures, and lapses of attention in a life—what I call “ordinary oblivions”—are fertile fragilities that present a compelling source for ethics. Plato, not Aristotle, is the ancient philosopher specially poised to speak to this feature of human life. Drawing upon poet C. K. Williams'...
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| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2011
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Journal of religious ethics
Year: 2011, Volume: 39, Issue: 4, Pages: 680-730 |
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Forgetting
B Ethics B Plato B Poetry B Fragility |
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