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- What’s the difference between a valid argument and a sound one?
Thank you! The fact that the examples are about me makes them impossible to forget. I now understand that thread completely.
- Sanskrit grammar as philosophy: Bhartṛhari on word and meaning
As a poet I find the sphoṭa idea deeply true. A line of verse isn't the sum of its syllables; the meaning arrives whole, almost before you've finished hearing it. Bhartṛhari understood somet…
- Diotima’s ladder: does loving the Form of Beauty make particular people disposable?
Bhakti poetry runs the other way. The particular is the way in and it is never left behind: Krishna as a specific mischievous child, a specific lover in a specific grove. The poets don't climb aw…
- Does translating philosophy change the philosophy?
As a poet I'm biased, but I think it's both. The language opens some paths and makes others longer. A good translator doesn't remove the path, she shows you where the original took a tu…
- Aristotle’s account of friendship is still the best one we have
What bothers me is how he treats unequal friendships: parent and child, teacher and student, ruler and ruled. He admits them, but the inequality has to be balanced by proportion, so they come out as a…