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Batman and Philosophy: The Dark Knight of the Soul (The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Book 9)
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Deontologists judge the morality of an act based on features intrinsic to the act itself, regardless of the consequences stemming from the act. To deontologists, the ends never justify the means, but rather the means must be justifiable on
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“Wall Street is a casino in which high-stakes wagers are placed within a limited number of betting houses that keep a percentage of the wins for themselves and fob off losses on others, including taxpayers.”
― Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future
― Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future
“Yet neither the regressives’ stop-at-nothing tactics nor their social Darwinist message would have gained much traction were it not for the stunning failure of Democrats to make the case for a strong and effective government that responds to the needs of average people.”
― Beyond Outrage (Expanded Edition): What has gone wrong with our economy and our democracy, and how to fix it
― Beyond Outrage (Expanded Edition): What has gone wrong with our economy and our democracy, and how to fix it
“The meritocratic claim that people are paid what they are worth in the market is a tautology that begs the questions of how the market is organized and whether that organization is morally and economically defensible. In truth, income and wealth increasingly depend on who has the power to set the rules of the game.”
― Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few
― Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few
“Let America be America again,” pleaded Hughes: “The land that never has been yet— / And yet must be—the land where every man is free. / The land that’s mine—the poor man’s, Indian’s, Negro’s, ME—”
― The Common Good
― The Common Good
“There is no light at the end of the acquisitive tunnel. Even Adam Smith, the putative father of market economics, recognized the centrality of this deception. Writing in the eighteenth century (not in his Wealth of Nations but in his Theory of Moral Sentiments), he described the typical worker who “through the whole of his life … pursues the idea of a certain artificial and elegant repose which he may never arrive at, for which he sacrifices a real tranquillity.… It is this deception which rouses and keeps in continual motion the industry of mankind.”
― Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future
― Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future
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