2 posts tagged “immanuel kant”
I was enjoying The Life of Henry Brulard, by Stendhal, the other evening, and I came across a passage that seemed to me to be a curious synthesis of Aristotle's & Kant's notions of happiness (mentioned in the footnote of the Nicomachean post). In an aside, Stendhal remarks, "I call a man's character his habitual way of going in pursuit of happiness," (italics mean the English word rather than French was used in the original). They both hint at this, but Stendhal distills the concepts into something that can have meaning.
fuck. this paper on Kant is tough. as i jot notes (early sentences) to organize and conceptualize my paper (which doesn't exist yet and is due tomorrow [i've not done this {worked on the paper all the way up to the night before} in years]) i find myself using phrases as if i were a magician or some other like performer. phrases like, "i will next attempt to..." and "as i examine this bridge of possibility."
just thought i'd share.
