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American philosopher (1926-2018)

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

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

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