The Truthful and the Good: Essays in Honor of Robert

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This quantity was once occasioned via the need of its members to honor Robert Sokolowski on his 60th birthday. the will first took fonn at the streets of an American city while numerous folks, whereas attending a philosophy convention, have been bemoaning the inability of ardour for doing philosophy as all of us conceived it. during this expression of our discontent all of us had a typical exemplar in brain, anyone for whom the eagerness for "the truthful" and "the good" is embodied in each sentence of his wealthy writings. Felicitously this very philosopher was once an individual whom we an regard as manifesting in his individual and existence those related houses which his writings convey and pursue as luminous beliefs. for that reason, John Brough, John Drummond, and that i got here up with the concept we carry our personal convention and do philosophy as we envisage it and while honor its preferable exemplary practitioner whose 60th birthday was once the next yr. instantly the belief took wings one of the handful ofus and the dreariness of that philosophy congress receded. the 1st activity of contemplating attainable audio system used to be effortless. the problem of the venue for our symposium, what i love to name the "Sokofest," needed to be made up our minds, in addition to the main points of its recognition.

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Ontologically groundless, verification cannot finally justifY my stance. Thus a Sartrean concept of self-responsibility can be modeled only on the activist appetite for remaking the world in one's image, not on the reflective ideal of grasping the world's identities. If neither Heideggerian monism nor Sartrean dualism can do justice to the phenomenon of being truthful-the former rendering its character as response to a call unintelligible, the latter turning it into a ruse-what options remain? Is there a third way of augmenting descriptive phenomenology, one that preserves the connection between ontology and evidence characteristic of the Heideggerian approach while simultaneously maintaining the duality of principles that, in Sartre's theory, made the primordial othering of the same (as a transcendental condition of being truthful) intelligible?

Richard W. Sterling and William C. Scott (New York: Norton, 1985), 145. THE PRIMACY OF IDENTITY Gian-Carlo Rota Massachusetts Institute a/Technology. Cambridge. MA. USA To Robert Sokolowski on his sixtieth birthday I. Exoteric and esoteric discourse. When Alfred North Whitehead wrote that all philosophy is a footnote to Greek philosophy, he did not go far enough. Our debt to the Greeks goes beyond philosophy. Our science, our social order, and much else we live by today can also trace their origins to Greek antiquity.

For the non-coincidence of for-itself and self renders being truthful a kind of sham. The idea of becoming an individual by taking responsibility for what I say remains intelligible within the Sartrean framework; indeed, I am nothing but what I make myself to be (whether responsibly or 18Jean_Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, tr. ), esp. 21-25. On the relation between phenomenological description and ontological explanation in Sartre, see Klaus Hartmann, Sartre's Ontology (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1966).

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