"It is perhaps not an accident that stories often end with a marriage, since this provides a specifically dramatic con…"

"Locke does not deny the existence of God or the truth of religion; indeed, he affirms these as indispensable, to the …"

"For all of their differences, Locke, Spinoza, and Kant ... share a common core in their conception of freedom, which …"

"Because man has no relationship with anything—other people, the world, God—that is not mediated at some level through…"

"This is the heart of the diabolical: an image that is not an image, but presents itself as the real thing—indeed, in …"

"Contradiction constitutes the diabolical. ... The diabolical presents as essential what it simultaneously denies or r…"

"Nietzsche represents an attempt to recover the "self-diffusiveness" of the good in spite of the good itself, because …"

"Ours is a decidedly non-philosophical, even anti-philosophical, age. This is not to say that we lack "philosophers," …"

"We will not pursue the question here about ... whether it is in fact possible to find some objective standard for jud…"

"Enjoying an extraordinary knowledge of languages (ancient and modern), literature, and art, by his cultured personali…"