Lecture I: A Project of ‘Impure’ Enquiry—Descartes and Wittgenstein
Lecture II: ‘Philosophical Anthropology’—Hume and Nietzsche
Abstract: One of the dominant themes in Bernard Williams’ philosophy, especially his ethical philosophy, is the importance of history. This idea makes repeated appearances throughout his oeuvre, and in a number of different guises: one is the importance to philosophy of having a sense of itself as a contingently shaped way of making sense of life; another is the importance of observing the limits of speculative...