Stanley Cavell

Stanley Louis Cavell (September 1, 1926 – June 19, 2018) was an American philosopher. He is the Walter M. Cabot Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University.

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"The achievement of happiness requires not the ... satisfaction of our needs ... but the examination and transformation of those needs."

- Stanley Cavell

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"I know how to give the meaning of a word but not how to give the intention of a word."

- Stanley Cavell

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"The crucified human body is our best picture of the unacknowledged human soul."

- Stanley Cavell

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