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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
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
― I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
― I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
“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
“Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.”
― Cat’s Cradle
― Cat’s Cradle
“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Currently spirituality is at an ebb in the more advanced technological societies. This in part because memes that validate spiritual order tend to lose their credibility with time, and need to be recast in new forms again and again. At present we are living in an era when many of the basic tenets of Christianity, which has supported Western spiritual values for almost two thousand years, have come into conflict with the conclusions of science and philosophy. While religions have lost much of their power, science and technology have not been able to generate convincing value systems to replace them.”
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