Philosophy in the Garden
by Damon Young
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Why did Marcel Proust have bonsai beside his bed? What was Jane Austen doing, coveting an apricot? How was Friedrich Nietzsche inspired by his thought tree?Tags
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Damon Young is an Honorary Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne, Australia and a frequent contributor to newspapers, magazines and radio.
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- Canonical title
- Philosophy in the Garden
- Original publication date
- 2012
- First words
- Aristotle had a reputation as a dandy.
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- The garden is not simply a retreat or a source of physical exercise. It is intellectually stimulating in its own right, because it is a fusion of two fundamental philosophical principles: humanity and nature. This is suggeste... (show all)d by the word itself, and its cognates in German and the Romance languages: Garten, jardin, giardino. Like the English 'yard', they refer to enclosure, which requires two things: something cordoned off (nature), and someone to do the cordoning (humanity).... Every garden is a union of this kind: nature separated, bordered, transformed by humans.
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- 5 — Dutch, English, German, Spanish, Turkish
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