Hegel famously observed that the owl of Minerva takes flight only at dusk. Among Hegel’s dicta this one stands out as being not just importantly correct but broadly comprehensible (two qualities not often combined by the German master). Because the goddess Minerva symbolizes wisdom, Hegel was suggesting that philosophical thought properly begins only after the day is done—t (...)
March 25, 2011
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Deal or No Deal?
On Compromise and Rotten CompromisesAvishai MargalitPrinceton University Press, $26.95, 232 pp.
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