- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Blind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but on establishing truths by reason and argument.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature deals the cards without thought or care, and there is no point in blaming the dealer. All we can do is make the best of the hands we have been dealt.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions.
- Nov 07, 2020
There are many things you shouldn't measure. Don't, for example, try to measure how much you love your wife!
- Science
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't feel proprietorial about the problems of philosophy. History has taught us that many philosophical issues can grow up, leave home and live elsewhere.
- Natural
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- Nov 07, 2020
Right and wrong are not simply matters of evolutionary impacts and what is natural.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is indeed, at root, the product of the firings of neurons and release of hormones.
- Cynics
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there's one thing that makes me cynical, it's optimists. They are just far too cynical about cynicism. If only they could see that cynics can be happy, constructive, even fun to hang out with, they might learn a thing or two.
- Confronting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by confronting head-on the reality that all progress is going to be obstructed by vested interests and corrupted by human venality can we create realistic programmes that actually have a chance of success.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Progress is more of a challenge for the cynic but also more important and urgent, since for the optimist things aren't that bad and are bound to get better anyway.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips away layers of scales from our eyes, and so we do indeed become more cynical about many of the things we naively accepted when younger.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing.
- Humility
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is the deal: we are happy to single out people as superior just as long as they don't accept the description themselves. We want heroes and idols, but we also want egalitarianism, and that requires proclamations of humility from our gods.
- Humble
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- Nov 07, 2020