The volume in which Strawson's essay appears also includes a sizable number of reflections and criticisms of his views, to which Strawson replies in detail.
All good biographies of artists are also books of criticism, reflections of the writer's judgments, preferences, and passions regarding the work of the artist in question; those guiding tastes and emphases provide the hidden but decisive structure for the information that the book delivers.
For writers like John Stuart Mill and George Grote - practical, liberal, utilitarian thinkers - this was the real Socrates, the eternal spirit of reflection, criticism and potentially of opposition to the state itself.
However, anticommunism cannot but maintain an unstable existence in popular culture as the "nation" still resonates more strongly than "anticommunism" with the populace and reflection and criticism of the South Korea are in and of themselves the clearest criticisms of anticommunism.
Instead, this article by Nick Faust in the online journal The New Inquiry, though its occasion is a reflection on Andy Warhol, captures the new spirit of criticism.
Later Hindu notions about the Vedic scriptures and their authority are in part reflections of Hindu responses to the criticisms of the Vedas launched by the Buddhists and the Jains.
There are Ittense subsidy battles going on all over world.
Amid a storm of criticism, Mr Mathieson apologised for "a joke" which "on reflection I accept … was in poor taste".
The shivers in his voice and body weren't reflections of his doubts on the matter, but of knowing he was inviting a hailstorm of criticism — and knowing he had no choice.
There are also longer reflections on theater criticism (of which he laments a gaping lack) and the lesser practice of theater reviewing (which he begrudges as a necessary evil); the absurdities of recklessly giving awards, which does not belie the pleasures of receiving them; and the uses and abuses of revivals, among other topics.
