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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.
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To study the art of living is to engage in one of its forms.
The Art of Living (1998)
The one reaction Nietzsche cannot tolerate is indifference, and this is what his use of hyperbole is designed to eliminate.
Nietzsche: Life as Literature (1985)
Irony, which in Socrates’ case consists of saying “too little,” functions for him just as hyperbole, which is saying “too much,” functions for Nietzsche.
Nietzsche: Life as Literature (1985)
For Socrates, virtue was nothing but its own pursuit. And only the promise of happiness is happiness itself.
Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art (2010)
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.
Nietzsche: Life as Literature (1985)
According to Heidegger, the blind desire for manipulation [of nature] came about because modernity turned reason—which was, for the ancients, and even for the medievals, a source of valuable goals—into a purely instrumental faculty.
During the period that began with classical Greece and ended with late pagan antiquity, philosophy was more than merely a theoretical discipline. Even when Aristotle identified philosophy with "theory," his purpose is to argue ... that a life of theoretical activity, the life of philosophy, was the best life that human beings could lead.
The Art of Living (1998)