Philosophy as a Discipline

References

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• This would not be true of ‘deliberation’ in the Aristotelian sense, a working out of means to a settled end, because what means will achieve that end may be a matter of fact hard enough for any practical purpose; but the kind of deliberation that consists of making up one's mind what to do is something that takes place within the perceived possibilities, and involves the formulation and adoption of ends.
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• Nicomachean Ethics 1093a 28
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• I have explored the structure of this sort of understanding in yet a third case, that of dancing, in a not-yet-published paper called ‘How Can I Know What Dancing Is?’
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• One has quite often been sent by publishers manuscripts from the declining years of once revered colleagues that are simply incoherent or vacuous. Obviously the inner ear has failed, in the sense that the connections it detects are too specialized or tenuous for the rest of the world; just as old poets lose their sense of music and imagery, because what they respond to is now a set of adjustments that operate only within a frame of reference that has too few points in common with the syntheses that constitute the discipline. Partly one supposes that the very old do not notice that they have become odd; partly they no longer care, since neither they nor the gene pool have anything at stake.
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• Plato . Phaedrus 245 A
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• Sparshott , Francis . 1988 . Off the Ground: First Steps to a Philosophical Consideration of the Dance Princeton : Princeton University Press . §3.21. Most philosophical treatments of ‘practice’ are concerned with the kinds of practice or practices that correlate with theory, and do not deal with the general theme that concerns us here.
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