If Descartes “discovered for philosophy that to confront the threat of or temptation to skepticism is to risk madness”, then (Cavell thinks) Wittgenstein’s work “confronts this temptation and finds its victory exactly in never claiming a final philosophical victory over (the temptation to) skepticism” — for that (Cavell maintains) “would mean a victory over the human”.
— FERGUS KERR, OP, Theology After Wittgenstein
On Skepticism
20.06.2011
The Mystery of (Photographic) Images
19.06.2011
It may be felt that I make too great a mystery of these objects. My feeling is rather that we have forgotten how mysterious these things are, and in general how different different things are from one another, as though we had forgotten how to value them. This is in fact something that movies teach us.
— STANLEY CAVELL, The World Viewed
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04.06.2011
pois
ver não é habitar
o espanto de as coisas serem?Ver
não é a assombrosa revelação
da nossa cumplicidade
com o lume?— JOSÉ TOLENTINO MENDONÇA, “Dos Olhos de Rubliev”
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