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Bernard Arthur Owen Williams foi um filósofo moralista inglês. Filósofo inglês. Williams nasceu no Essex, estudou no Balliol College de Oxford, e foi membro do corpo docente do All Souls e do New College. Foi professor de filosofia em Cambridge entre 1967 e 1979 e Reitor do King's College de Cambridge entre 1979 e 1987, altura em que aceitou uma cadeira em Berkeley, regressando em 1990 à cadeira de filosofia moral em Oxford. Williams é conhecido por defender uma posição subtilmente relativista em filosofia moral, rejeitando as promessas aristotélicas e kantianas segundo as quais a virtude resulta do exercício das propensões racionais da mente. Também rejeita as teorias expressivistas e projectivistas, argumentando que se, pelo contrário, a ética se basear apenas em sensações e paixões contingentes não pode ser o que parece. O seu argumento de que a ética kantiana e o utilitarismo põem uma tónica não natural nos interesses puramente impessoais, ignorando os projectos pessoais que necessariamente ocupam o horizonte próximo das vidas práticas das pessoas, tem sido bastante influente. Descartes: the Project of Pure Inquiry , Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy e Shame and Necessity são algumas das suas obras principais. Problems of the Self e Moral Luck são duas das suas colectâneas de artigos.

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✵ 21. Setembro 1929 – 10. Junho 2003   •   Outros nomes Bernard Arthur Owen Williams
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“O homem comum que fica furioso se lhe disserem que o pai era desonesto, se envaidece se descobrir que o avô era um pirata.”

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Bernard Williams: Frases em inglês

“Deniers do not get their views just from simple mistakes about language and truth. Rather, they believe that there is something to worry about in important areas of our thought and in traditional interpretations of those areas; they sense that it has something to do with truth; and (no doubt driven by the familiar desire to say something at once hugely general, deeply important, and reassuringly simple) they extend their worry to the notion of truth itself.”

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Fonte: Truth and Truthfulness (2002), p. 6

“A further turn is to be found in some "unmasking" accounts of natural science, which aim to show that its pretensions to deliver the truth are unfounded, because of social forces that control its activities. Unlike the case of history, these do not use truths of the same kind; they do not apply science to the criticism of science. They apply the social sciences, and typically depend on the remarkable assumption that the sociology of knowledge is in a better position to deliver truth about science than science is to deliver truth about the world.”

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Bernard Williams

Fonte: Truth and Truthfulness (2002), p. 2

“Two currents of ideas are very prominent in modern thought and culture. On the one hand, there is an intense commitment to truthfulness--or, at any rate, a pervasive suspiciousness, a readiness against being fooled, an eagerness to see through appearances to the real structures and motives that lie behind them. Always familiar in politics, it stretches to historical understanding, to the social sciences, and even to interpretations of discoveries and research in the natural sciences.
Together with this demand for truthfulness, however, or (to put it less positively) this reflex against deceptiveness, there is an equally pervasive suspicion about truth itself: whether there is such a thing; if there is, whether it can be more than relative or subjective or something of that kind; altogether, whether we should bother about it, in carrying on our activities or in giving an account of them. These two things, the devotion to truthfulness and the suspicion directed to the idea of truth, are connected to one other. The desire for truthfulness drives a process of criticism which weakens the assurance that there is any secure or unqualifiedly stateable truth.”

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Fonte: Truth and Truthfulness (2002), p. 1; Chapter 1: The problem

“Positivism … implies the double falsehood that no interpretation is needed, and that it is not needed because the story which the positivist writer tells, such as it is, is obvious. The story he or she tells is usually a bad one, and its being obvious only means that it is familiar.”

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Fonte: Truth and Truthfulness (2002), p. 12

“As Roland Barthes said, those who do not re-read condemn themselves to reading the same story everywhere: "they recognize what they already think and know."”

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Bernard Williams

Fonte: Truth and Truthfulness (2002), p. 12

“There continue to be complex debates about what Nietzsche understood truth to be. Quite certainly, he did not think, in pragmatist spirit, that beliefs are true if they serve our interests or welfare: we have just seen some of his repeated denials of this idea. The more recently fashionable view is that he was the first of the deniers, thinking that there is no such thing as truth, or that truth is what anyone thinks it is, or that it is a boring category that we can do without. This is also wrong, and more deeply so. Nietzsche did not think that the ideal of truthfulness went into retirement when its metaphysical origins were discovered, and he did not suppose, either, that truthfulness could be detached from a concern for the truth. Truthfulness as an ideal retains its power, and so far from his seeing truth as dispensable or malleable, his main question is how it can be made bearable.”

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Fonte: Truth and Truthfulness (2002), p. 16

“If the passion for truthfulness is merely controlled and stilled without being satisfied, it will kill the activities it is supposed to support. This may be one of the reasons why, at the present time, the study of the humanities runs a risk of sliding from professional seriousness, through professionalization, to a finally disenchanted careerism.”

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Fonte: Truth and Truthfulness (2002), p. 3

“Nietzsche … did not settle for a demure civic conversation in the style of Richard Rorty's ironist, or saunter off with the smug nod that registers a deconstructive job neatly done. He was aware that his own criticisms and exposures owed both their motivation and their effect to the spirit of truthfulness. His aim was to see how far the values of truth could be revalued, how they might be understood in a perspective quite different from the Platonic and Christian metaphysics which had provided their principal source in the West up to now.”

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Bernard Williams

Fonte: Truth and Truthfulness (2002), p. 18

“Those who say that all historical accounts are ideological constructs (which is one version of the idea that there is really no historical truth) rely on some story which must itself claim historical truth. They show that supposedly "objective" historians have tendentiously told their stories from some particular perspective; they describe, for example, the biasses that have gone into constructing various histories of the United States. Such an account, as a particular piece of history, may very well be true, but truth is a virtue that is embarrassingly unhelpful to a critic who wants not just to unmask past historians of America but to tell us that at the end of the line there is no historical truth. It is remarkable how complacent some "deconstructive" histories are about the status of the history that they deploy themselves.”

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Fonte: Truth and Truthfulness (2002), p. 2

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