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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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“It must be admitted that when I turn around while driving our car and reply to my wife’s protests that I can perfectly well see where I am going without having to look where I am going because the focus of outflow is implicit, she is not reassured.”
― The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception
― The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception
“What is he? A friend or an enemy? The alethiometer answered: He is a murderer.”
― The Subtle Knife
― The Subtle Knife
“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
“But, actually, an affordance is neither an objective property nor a subjective property; or it is both if you like. An affordance cuts across the dichotomy of subjective-objective and helps us to understand its inadequacy. It is equally a fact of the environment and a fact of behavior. It is both physical and psychical, yet neither. An affordance points both ways, to the environment and to the observer.”
― The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception
― The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception
“And the careful manipulation of the occluding edges of clothing with progressive revealing of skin is a form of the theatrical art called stripping.”
― The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception
― The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception
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