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“It isn't easy to teach students to be citizens, capable of thinking critically about the world around them, when so much of childhood consists of basic training for a consumer society.”
― What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
― What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
“Here then is the link between freedom as autonomy and Kant's idea of morality. To act freely is not to choose the best means to a given end; it is to choose the end itself, for its own sake - a choice that human beings can make and billiard balls cannot.”
― Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
― Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
“Science can investigate nature and inquire into the empirical world, but it cannot answer moral questions or disprove
free will. That is because morality and freedom are not empirical concepts.
We can’t prove that they exist, but neither can we make sense of our moral lives without presupposing them.”
― Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
free will. That is because morality and freedom are not empirical concepts.
We can’t prove that they exist, but neither can we make sense of our moral lives without presupposing them.”
― Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
“We’re not only sentient beings, governed by the pleasure and pain delivered by our senses; we are also rational beings, capable of reason. If reason determines my will, then the will becomes the power to choose independent of the dictates of nature or inclination”
― Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
― Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
“The more we regard our success as our own doing, the less responsibility we feel for those who fall behind.”
― Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
― Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
Mohamed’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Mohamed’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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