“How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.”
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“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
― The God Delusion
― The God Delusion
“How can we be “free” as conscious agents if everything that we consciously intend is caused by events in our brain that we do not intend and of which we are entirely unaware?”
― Free Will
― Free Will
“philosophy teaches us and unsettles us by confronting us with what we already know; there's an irony: the difficulty consisted in this course is that it teaches what you already know; it works by taking what we know from familiar and unquestioned settings and making it strange. that's how the examples work. ... philosophy estranges us, not by providing us with new information, but by inviting and provoking a new way of seeing. The risk is once the familiar turns strange it is never quiet the same again. Self-knowledge is like a lost innocence, however unsettling, you find it; it can never be unthought or unknown.”
― Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
― Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
“The way things are does not determine the way they ought to be”
― Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
― Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
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