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Merleau-Ponty and the twentieth-century European corpus around him — phenomenology, late ontology, French post-Hegelianism, philosophy of language. Close reading, slowly. 885 pages (124 sources, 528 concepts, 210 entities, 23 questions).
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Concept
Institution
Merleau-Ponty's counter-concept to Husserlian constitution, developed in his 1954–55 Collège de France course "Institution in Personal and Public History." For a constituting subject, "there are only the objects which…
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Source
The Visible and the Invisible
Maurice Merleau-Ponty (manuscript), edited by Claude Lefort — 1964
Merleau-Ponty's unfinished late masterwork — what was meant to be a "phenomenological ontology" inquiring into "the origin of truth" through a philosophy of "wild" or pre-objective Nature. The published text consists of…
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Claim
Plato stages "is virtue teachable?" twice with non-converging machinery (Protagoras vs Meno), both ending…
Supported
Plato poses the question "can virtue be taught?" in two dialogues with non-converging machinery and reaches aporia both times. The Protagoras answers via intellectualism (virtue is knowledge →…
Paper A
23 supported 144 live 130 candidate 1 contested 5 retired
12 open Paper-A questions
Open Paper A →- concept Bad Conscience
- source Beyond Good and Evil
- concept Death of God
- concept Eternal Recurrence
- entity Friedrich Nietzsche
- concept Genealogy
- concept Good European
- concept Granite of Fate