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"Глуповат автор. Но восхваляющая рецензия Хитченса на обороте заставляет дать еще один шанс. Возможно, не столько глуповат, сколько расчетлив. Ибо чтиво предназначено для американского обывателя, веру которого заместило неверие." — Aug 01, 2013 05:41PM
"Глуповат автор. Но восхваляющая рецензия Хитченса на обороте заставляет дать еще один шанс. Возможно, не столько глуповат, сколько расчетлив. Ибо чтиво предназначено для американского обывателя, веру которого заместило неверие." — Aug 01, 2013 05:41PM
“Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irreducible posits comparable, epistemologically, to the gods of Homer . . . For my part I do, qua lay physicist, believe in physical objects and not in Homer's gods; and I consider it a scientific error to believe otherwise. But in point of epistemological footing, the physical objects and the gods differ only in degree and not in kind. Both sorts of entities enter our conceptions only as cultural posits.”
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“All children are atheists, they have no idea of God.”
― System of Nature
― System of Nature
“The technocrat is the natural friend of the dictator—computers and dictatorship; but the revolutionary lives in the gap which separates technical progress from social totality, and inscribed there his dream of permanent revolution. This dream, therefore, is itself action, reality, and an effective menace to all established order; it renders possible what it dreams about.”
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