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Can Philosophy Speak about Life?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2010

İlham Dilman
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Sometimes when artists talk about painting one finds what they have to say interesting: because they are talking about something they have lived with, something in which they find meaning. At other times one feels that it would be better for them to paint rather than talk about painting.

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 33 , September 1992 , pp. 109 - 123
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 1992

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References

1 For this way of putting it I am indebted to Professor Specht of the University of Mannheim.

2 I do so in Existentialist Critiques of Cartesianism (Macmillan, forthcoming).