Mohamed

“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.”
― Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

“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.”
― Michael J. Sandel, What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets

“scientific literacy and numeracy were not very good predictors of people’s beliefs about the risks of climate change. Instead, their beliefs were well predicted by their general cultural outlooks—by their tribal memberships (see”
― Joshua D. Greene, Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them

“This line of reasoning leads Kant to the second formulation of the categorical imperative: “Act in such a way that you always treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end.”23 This is the formula of humanity as an end.”
― Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?