Raymond Geuss

Person · Open Library

Born

10 December 1946

Works

32

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

11

Total plays

17

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,613x

2. Isolation of biologically active ribonucleic acid from sources enriched in ribonuclease

   · 1979 · cited 14,791x

3. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

   · 2016 · cited 11,696x

4. GENEPOP (Version 1.2): Population Genetics Software for Exact Tests and Ecumenicism

   · 1995 · cited 11,311x

5. The Sequence of the Human Genome

   · 2001 · cited 10,201x

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Quotes

• “One of Nietzsche’s most important legacies to us … is his claim that it is desirable and possible to dismantle the Platonic apparatus of Forms, Absolute Truth, the Idea of the Good, etc. and its historical derivatives, such as Kant’s transcendental philosophy, and that this can be done without fear of falling into “relativism.””
• “Nietzsche seems sometimes to replace the “transcendence” which stands at the center of traditional accounts—the existence of a transcendent God, or, failing that, a transcendental viewpoint—with that of a continually transcending activity. … There is no single, final perspective, but given any one perspective, we can always go beyond it.”
• “The idea that all problems either have a solution or can be shown to be pseudo-problems is not one I share.”
• “The Kantian philosophy is no more than at best a half-secularized version of such a theocratic ethics, with “Reason” in the place of God. This does not amount to much more than a change of names.”
• “A major danger in using highly abstractive methods in political philosophy is that one will succeed merely in generalizing one’s own local prejudices and repackaging them as demands of reason. The study of history can help to counteract this natural human bias.”
• “When Catullus expresses his love and hate for Lesbia, he is not obviously voicing a wish to rid himself of one or the other of these two sentiments. Not all contradictions resolve into temporal change of belief or desire.”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Raymond

Gender

male

Citizenship

United Kingdom

Place of birth

Evansville

Occupation

university teacher

Employer

University of Cambridge

Languages spoken

English language

Native language

English language

Award

Fellow of the British Academy

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