Closereads: Philosophy with Mark and Wes
Lionel Trilling on Sincerity (Part One)
May 1, 202659 min · 8,963 words
Show notes
On Ch. 2 "The Honest Soul and the Disintegrated Consciousness" in Sincerity and Authenticity (1972). This chapter focuses on a reading of Diderot's Rameau's Nephew and what Hegel made of it in the Phenomenology, so it's essentially for us a second opinion re. what we've been talking about on The Partially Examined Life. Read along with us. Watch this as unedited video. To get future parts,
Highlighted moments
The idea of society includes the assumption that a given society can be changed if the judgment passed upon it is adverse.
“he must endure the peculiar bitterness of modern man, the knowledge that he is not a genius.”
“its second intention which is to suggest that moral judgment is not ultimate that man's nature and destiny are not wholly comprehended within the narrow space between virtue and vice”
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