of his from the 1970s that were added to the 1985 reissuing of “APH” as “Narration and Knowledge”. Danto's point here is that we can describe what it means to live in a certain period only in hindsight, when we look at it historically but not from within. I have to admit..(16/20)

that I never fully understood this point of Danto’s, but it is part and parcel of his idea of the time to furnish a “descriptive metaphysic of historical existence” as he calls it in the preface of "APH", with which I am sympathetic. Finally, Danto also states that...(17/20)