- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, the ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control that can lead you to be shattered.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we have emotions of fear and pity toward the hero of a tragedy, we explore aspects of our own vulnerability in a safe and pleasing setting.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Among the good and decent men, some are unprepared for the surprises of life, and their good intentions run aground when confronted with issues like child care.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fear is ubiquitous in human life. It starts in infancy with our primal state of helplessness, where we can see what's going on but we can't move to get it. As we grow older we become a little more able to get what we want but then we're going to die so that gives fear another boost.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you've been betrayed by a spouse or a partner, it's much easier to focus on causing that person pain than it is to turn forward and actually create a life that's worthy of you in the future.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I listen to music. I particularly love Mozart.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men in particular think that they have achieved something if they can make a woman mad, particularly if she is calm and intellectual.
- Extricate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often, we feel helpless in lots of situations in our lives. The way anger gets a grip on us is it seems to be a way to extricate ourselves from helplessness.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People - and I think this is particularly true of Americans - don't like to be passive. They like to seize control.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't express anything without being very thoughtful.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My high school did not offer courses in philosophy, so the books that initially stimulated philosophical reflection in me were novels by Charles Dickens, Henry James, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
- Moral
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an undergraduate, I studied the Greek and Roman classics, and I went to graduate school in classics intending to work on the presentation of moral issues in various Greek and Roman tragedies.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
What all emotions have in common, and what distinguishes them from bodily appetites, is a focus on an object and a view of that object as salient for one's life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teaching has always been a very important part of my life. It is one of the ways I contribute to society. It is also a source of energy and insight.
- Deserve
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the whole, the accommodationist position has been dominant in U.S. law and public culture ─ ever since George Washington wrote a famous letter to the Quakers explaining that he would not require them to serve in the military because the 'conscientious scruples of all men' deserve the greatest 'delicacy and tenderness.'
- Coercive
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people think that women only wear the burqa because of coercive pressure, let them create ample opportunities for them, at the same time enforce laws making primary and secondary education compulsory, and then see what women actually do.
- Depending
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- Nov 07, 2020
Clothing that covers the body can be comfortable or uncomfortable, depending on the fabric. In India I typically wear a full salwaar kameez of cotton, because it is superbly comfortable, and full covering keeps dust off one's limbs and at least diminishes the risk of skin cancer.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Courses in the humanities, in particular, often seem impractical, but they are vital, because they stretch your imagination and challenge your mind to become more responsive, more critical, bigger.
- Complicated
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to talk about the regulation of financial markets because that is not my sphere of expertise. It's a very complicated topic, and if I have written a number of books they are always on topics that I think I know something about.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The U.S. has always understood itself to be united around political principles and not around culture, whereas the nations of Europe have a much more traditional conception of nationhood that is connected to romanticism, which thinks of religion and culture as ingredients of nationhood.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
We see unreasoning fear driving a certain amount of public policy, perhaps more in Europe than in the U.S.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am very impatient.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was four I joined a group of girls who were talking about their party dresses. I thought they were imagining, so I imagined a fantastic pink velvet dress with lots of jewels. But they were simply describing what they actually wore, and they had utter contempt for my obvious fiction. After that, I never joined a group again.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't waste time despising people.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to be a student in Rabindranath Tagore's school in Santiniketan in around 1915, dancing in the dance-dramas he wrote.
- Critically
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- Nov 07, 2020
In general, I agree with Socrates that what democracies badly need is the examined life, and we need to think critically about ourselves.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to address anger, fear, and then to think about what the alternatives are: hope, faith, a certain kind of brotherly love. And then you have to set yourself to cultivate those.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a lot of people get hope through civic organizations and through their churches.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I sometimes find that members of my family are reading completely different news from what I'm reading, because they're not reading general interest newspapers at all. They're getting all their news from certain Internet sites that are rather political.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
Envy, propelled by fear, can be even more toxic than anger, because it involves the thought that other people enjoy the good things of life which the envier can't hope to attain through hard work and emulation.
- Compounds
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- Nov 07, 2020
Disgust is often more deeply buried than envy and anger, but it compounds and intensifies the other negative emotions.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
Disgust for the female body is always tinged with anxiety, since the body symbolizes mortality.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
American men do have genuine reasons for anxiety. The traditional jobs that many men have filled are disappearing, thanks to automation and outsourcing. The jobs that remain require, in most cases, higher education, which is increasingly difficult for non-affluent families to afford.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we feel helpless later in life, fear makes us scapegoat others. Instead of fixing the problems, we say, 'Oh, it's all their fault - those women or immigrants are infesting our country.' Rather than useful protest or constructive solutions, we get angry at these handy targets.
- Big Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is true across every single society; we project grossness onto a racial or gender subgroup or caste. A big part of social subordination and discrimination is to ascribe hyper-animality to other groups and use that as an excuse for subordinating them further.
- Behaving
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men are angry at women because they aren't doing what they are supposed to do, which is support men. They are in the workplace claiming their own rights and often outdoing men. They are daring to bring charges of sexual assault and harassment. They are just not behaving themselves!
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fear requires belief that you will be harmed, and it is easily manipulated by rhetoric.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were several men who had blazed the trail for talking about emotions in philosophy; otherwise my work would have had even more opposition than it did.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very passionate about political issues, but I also think that listening to people who disagree is extremely important, and I try to build that into my teaching, sometimes by co-teaching with rightwing colleagues.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look into the religions, they have this deep idea of human dignity and the source of dignity being conscience.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find so often, you know, just on a very mundane level; you've got a meeting and your child's acting in a school play. You can't do both things. And it's not simply that you can't do both, but whatever you do, you're going to be neglecting something that's really important.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing illogical, it seems to me, about saying, 'I am going to care deeply about my work and my writing. I'm also going to care deeply about my family and my child.'
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020