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""For example, wide reflective equilibrium would reveal internal tensions and conflicts sustained by our particular American version of democracy-cum-capitalism that is built upon the maintenance of inequalities and injustices perpetrated under the guise of certain conservative conceptions of democratic freedom."" — Apr 13, 2014 08:15PM
""For example, wide reflective equilibrium would reveal internal tensions and conflicts sustained by our particular American version of democracy-cum-capitalism that is built upon the maintenance of inequalities and injustices perpetrated under the guise of certain conservative conceptions of democratic freedom."" — Apr 13, 2014 08:15PM
“Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.”
― Cat’s Cradle
― Cat’s Cradle
“A metaphor is not merely a linguistic expression (a form of words) used for artistic or rhetorical purposes; instead, it is a process of human understanding by which we achieve meaningful experience that we can make sense of. A metaphor, in this "experiential" sense, is a process by which we understand and structure one domain of experience in terms of another domain of a different kind.”
― The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason
― The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason
“Cheats prosper until there are enough who bear grudges against them to make sure they do not prosper.”
― The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology
― The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology
“...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
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