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There are, in essence, three schools of thought on the nature of the good: the intrinsic, the subjective, and the objective. The intrinsic theory holds that the good is inherent in certain things or actions as such, regardless of their
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“What is he? A friend or an enemy? The alethiometer answered: He is a murderer.”
― The Subtle Knife
― The Subtle Knife
“We should begin thinking of events as the primary realities and of time as an abstraction from them—a concept derived mainly from regular repeating events, such as the ticking of clocks. Events are perceived, but time is not (Gibson, 1975).”
― The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception
― The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception
“But then, of course, one can peek through the fingers, which is not only pleasurable but a lesson in practical optics.”
― The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception
― The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception
“I believe consciousness is simply what it feels like to have a neocortex.”
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“History is neither a prison nor a museum, nor is it a set of materials for self-congratulation.”
― A Short History of Ethics: A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the Twentieth Century
― A Short History of Ethics: A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the Twentieth Century
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