The Philosophical Faculty Journal

Category: Lucas Gronouwe

  • Uses of Philosophy

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    Critical and Postcritical Interventions in the Philosophical Canon Introduction This paper encourages academic philosophers in the Netherlands[1] to consider three questions: What do we study and teach? How do we study and teach? And why do we study and teach? The answer to the first question is no longer self-evident. For the past few decades,…

  • Uses of Dialogue; or, Why We Love Plato

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    The author would like to thank Kyrke Otto and the Splijtstof editorial team for their valuable comments on an earlier version of this paper. Why do we love Plato? To the historian of philosophy, this must come across as a strange, if not out-of-place question. Not because he or she would necessarily deny its premise,…