Quote of the Week

Week of 9/5/16 “It is striking that we are less likely to criticize violinists, say, than political philosophers, for failing to provide justice-promoting guidance, as if being interested in identifying truths about justice meant that one was more rather than less culpable for failing to tell us how to bring it about… But I find it hard to feel more impatient with political philosophers than with those who show no interest in justice at all” Adam Swift's The Value of Philosophy in Nonideal Circumstances, 367.

Week of 9/12/16: It is the case that in any language, there is always something that cannot be expressed. It is not the case that there is some thing that cannot be expressed in any language; for, to name it would be to invalidate the reason we were searching for it. - (On the notion of semantic completeness)