Everything is in the detail

on the humanness of rhetorical judging

Lenore Langsdorf

pp. 63-79

in: John Drummond, James G. Hart (eds), The truthful and the good, Berlin, Springer, 1996

Abstract

must avoid artificial problems. It must address and clarify important things and distinguish them from one another. Moreover, a good philosophical education should clarify a lot of important things and … should not try to address grandiose problems … such as ‘Is there really an external world?’