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Daniel Callcut
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Philosopher and writer. Articles and reviews for @Aeonmag @NewStatesman @prospect_uk @NewHumanist @ArtsPro @psyche_the_mag Editor of Reading Bernard Williams
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    Oct 22, 2023
    New essay on Bernard Williams, moral relativism, and the culture wars with nods to Herodotus, Sally Rooney, Judith Butler, Christine Korsgaard, Richard Rorty, Derek Parfit, Kant, Nietzsche, Wilde and @pameladruck and @holland_tom and @StephanieCoontz
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    Bernard Williams, moral relativism and the culture wars | Aeon Essays
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    Aug 4, 2022
    By age 3 you should have learnt ancient Greek; Latin by age 8. By the age of ten you read Plato and Demosthenes with ease. By 12, political economy and logic. In your early teens you publish defences of utilitarianism. Aged 20, after a mental breakdown, you discover poetry.
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    Daniel Callcut
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    Aug 12, 2022
    Bernard Williams writing about the internet (2002).
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    Daniel Callcut
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    Aug 12, 2024
    Bernard Williams writing about the internet (2002).
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    Daniel Callcut
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    Nov 25, 2023
    This exhibit in the Leicester Museum & Art Gallery has a rather provocative definition of Transcendental Idealism
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    Daniel Callcut
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    Nov 18, 2023
    The last book Bernard Williams published in his lifetime, Truth and Truthfulness (2002), contains this brief passage on the internet.
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    Daniel Callcut
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    Sep 8, 2021
    "Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity." (Nietzsche)
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    Daniel Callcut
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    Jan 5, 2023
    "It is a weakness of scholars who study philosophers to think that philosophers are just like scholars, and it is particularly a mistake in the case of Plato." (Bernard Williams)
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    Daniel Callcut
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    Mar 13, 2018
    Bernard Williams wrote rather prophetically about the internet in 2002 @philosophybites @DailyNousEditor
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    Daniel Callcut
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    Apr 8, 2024
    Who are the great philosophers of the 21st century?
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    Daniel Callcut
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    Dec 30, 2021
    Bernard Williams from Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy...
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    Daniel Callcut
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    Dec 28, 2021
    Nietzsche's claim that “the existence of the world is justified only as an aesthetic phenomenon” is one of his most appalling.
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    Daniel Callcut
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    Apr 17, 2020
    Terrific piece by Adam Tooze on The Economist, liberalism, and Alexander Zevin's new book prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/what-… @adam_tooze @zevin_a @prospect_uk
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    Daniel Callcut
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    Feb 27, 2024
    Stanley Cavell on Bernard Williams
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