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An Addendum on J. Glenn Gray and Hannah Arendt on Thinking
TODAY IN PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY: An Addendum on J. Glenn Gray and Hannah Arendt on Thinking
In my episode on J. Glenn Gray I quoted Timothy Fuller on Hannah Arendt, and that quote stuck in my mind as something I wanted to further examine. In this episode I consider the claim attributed by Fuller to Arendt that thinking and acting can’t be combined, and along the way I touch on the work of Antony Flew, Susan Stebbing, Jürgen Habermas, Jan Patočka, and Peter Paret, among others. This isn’t as closely connected to philosophy of history as my other episodes, but it’s still relevant.
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Episode: S02EP31
#philosophy #history #PhilosophyofHistory #JGlennGray #HannahArendt #thinking #thought #AntonyFlew #SusanStebbing #MartinHeidegger #PeterParet #war
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Arendt, H. (1981). The life of the mind: The groundbreaking investigation on how we think. HMH.
Arendt, H. (2021). Thinking without a banister: Essays in understanding, 1953-1975. Schocken.
Bloch, M. (1999). Strange defeat: A statement of evidence written in 1940 (No. 371). WW Norton & Company.
Bradley, F. H. (1962). Ethical studies. Second Edition. Oxford University Press.
Descartes, R. (2012). Principles of philosophy. Simon and Schuster.
Fichte, J. G. (1994). Introductions to the Wissenschaftslehre and other writings, 1797-1800. Hackett Publishing.
Flew, A. (1976). Thinking about thinking: (or, Do I Sincerely Want to be Right?). Fontana/Collins: Glasgow.
Fuller, T. (2014). J. Glenn Gray: A Personal Remembrance. Juniata Voices, 14, 49.
Gray, J. G. (1970). The warriors: Reflections on men in battle. Harper & Row.
Habermas, J. (1992). Postmetaphysical thinking: Philosophical essays. MIT Press.
Heidegger, M. (2014). Introduction to metaphysics. Yale University Press.
Paret, P. (2009). The cognitive challenge of war: Prussia 1806. Princeton University Press.
Patočka, J. (1996). Heretical essays in the philosophy of history. Open Court Publishing.
Stebbing, S. (1948). Thinking to some purpose. Penguin: Harmondsworth.
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