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Stanley Louis Cavell is an American philosopher. He is the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, Emeritus, at Harvard University.



✵ 1. September 1926 – 19. June 2018
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Famous Stanley Cavell Quotes

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

Stanley Cavell

The Division of Talent (1985)

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

Stanley Cavell

The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy (Oxford: 1979), p. 430

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

Stanley Cavell

Pursuits of Happiness (1984)

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