Both dogmatism and metaphysics … are attempts to project on… - Alexander Nehamas

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Both dogmatism and metaphysics … are attempts to project one’s own views on the world, and they are just as much attempts to hide precisely this projection from themselves as well as from their audience.

Alexander Nehamas

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Alexander Nehamas (born 22 March 1946 in Athens, Greece) is Professor of philosophy and Edmund N. Carpenter, II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He works on Greek philosophy, aesthetics, Nietzsche, Foucault, and literary theory.

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