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Philosophy... is indeed outrageous, inherently so. It seeks to disquiet the foundations of our lives and to offer us in recompense nothing better than itself- and this on the basis of no expert knowledge, of nothing closed to the ordinary human being, once... [one] lets himself or herself be informed by the process and ambition of philosophy.

Stanley Cavell

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Stanley Cavell
Age: 91 †
Born: 1926
Born: September 1
Died: 2018
Died: June 19
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Atlanta
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