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| 269830f | And then sometimes it comes over me and I wonder why it happened to us. We're plain as salt, us Tucks. We don't deserve no blessings--if it is a blessing. And, likewise, I don't see how we deserve to be cursed, if it's a curse. Still--there's no use trying to figure why things fall the way they do. Things just are, and fussing don't bring changes. | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| 2e120a0 | There! The boys are in from the pond." Winnie heard a burst of voices downstairs, and in a moment Miles and Jesse were climbing to the loft. "Here, child," said Mae hastily. "Hide your eyes. Boys? Are you decent? What'd you put on to swim in? I got Winnie up here, do you hear me?" "For goodness' sake, Ma," said Jesse, emerging from the stairwell. "You think we're going to march around in our altogether with Winnie Foster in the house?" And .. | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| 627fa34 | There's a pretty good old rowboat. I'll take you out for a row after supper." "No, will," said Jesse. "Let . I found her first, didn't I, Winnie Foster? Listen, I'll show you where the frogs are, and..." "Hush," Tuck interrupted. "Everyone hush. take Winnie rowing on the pond. There's a good deal to be said and I think we better hurry up and say it. I got a feeling there ain't a whole lot of time." Jesse laughed at this, and ran a hand.. | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| c63dc6f | It has been said that the French revolution resulted from philosophy, and it is not without reason that philosophy has been called Weltweisheit [world wisdom]; for it is not only truth in and for itself, as the pure essence of things, but also truth in its living form as exhibited in the affairs of the world. We should not, therefore, contradict the assertion that the revolution received its first impulse from philosophy. Never since the su.. | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ||
| a07e549 | The nature of finite things as such is to have the seed of passing away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death. | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ||
| 88344c5 | This Dialectic, which unsettles all particular judgments and opinions, transmuting the Evil into Good and Good into Evil, left at last nothing remaining but the mere action of subjectivity itself, the Abstractum of Spirit - Thought. Thought contemplates everything under the form of Universality, and is consequently the impulsion towards and production of the Universal. | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ||
| 1ddb323 | por lo poco que el espiritu necesita para contentarse, puede medirse la extension de lo que ha perdido. | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ||
| b9ee373 | Frederick II may be mentioned as the ruler who inaugurated the new epoch in the sphere of practical life - that epoch in which practical political interest attains Universality [is recognized as an abstract principle], and receives an absolute sanction. Frederick II merits especial notice as having comprehended the general object of the State, and as having been the first sovereign who kept the general interest of the State steadily in view.. | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ||
| 67b866c | Si la simple expression de la douleur et de la joie soulage le coeur, les epanchements de la poesie lyrique [ont] une mission plus haute ; celle, non de delivrer l'esprit du sentiment, mais de l'affranchir dans le sentiment. En effet, la domination aveugle de la passion consiste en ce que l'ame s'identifie tout entiere avec elle, au point de ne plus pouvoir s'en detacher, de ne pouvoir se contempler et s'exprimer elle-meme. Or la poesie del.. | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ||
| c7618da | SS10 . . . Such minds, when they give themselves up to the uncontrolled ferment of [the divine] substance, imagine that, by drawing a veil over self-consciousness and surrendering understanding they become the beloved of God to whom He gives wisdom in sleep; and hence what they in fact receive, and bring to birth in their sleep, is nothing but dreams. | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ||
| adc8958 | Man is an animal, but even in his animal functions, he is not confined to the implicit, as the animal is; he becomes conscious of them, recognizes them, and lifts them, as, for instance, the process of digestion, into self-conscious science. In this way man breaks the barrier of his implicit and immediate character, so that precisely because he knows that he is an animal, he ceases to be an animal and attains knowledge of himself as spirit. | consciousness man | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | |
| ee994cd | In a state which is really articulated rationally all the laws and organizations are nothing but a realization of freedom in its essential characteristics. When this is the case, the individual's reason finds in these institutions, only the actuality of his own essence, and if he obeys these laws, he coincides, not with something alien to himself, but simply with what is his own. Freedom of choice, of course, is often equally called 'freedo.. | hegel individuality institutions laws modernity rationality the-state | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | |
| 0815b4a | At least ten times as many people died from preventable, poverty-related diseases on September 11, 2011, as died in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on that black day. The terrorist attacks led to trillions of dollars being spent on the 'war on terrorism' and on security measures that have inconvenienced every air traveller since then. The deaths caused by poverty were ignored. So whereas very few people have .. | extreme-poverty poverty war-on-terror | Peter Singer | |
| 141528a | Pro Life' or 'Right to Life' movement is misnamed. Those who protest against abortion but dine regularly on the bodies of chickens, pigs and calves can hardly claim to have concern for 'life' as such. Their concern about embryos and fetuses suggests only a biased concern for the lives of members of our own species. | ethics morality philosophy | Peter Singer | |
| 8978a9d | Many people who think nothing of buying factory-farmed ham or chicken from a supermarket are quick to condemn hunting; yet hunting is more defensible than factory farming. | ethics morality philosophy-of-life veganism | Peter Singer | |
| f0f646f | Laws and a settled decision procedure to generate them are a good thing. This gives us one important reason for obeying the law. By obeying the law, I can contribute to the respect in which the established decision procedure and the laws are held. By disobeying, I set an example to others that may lead them to disobey too. | ethics law | Peter Singer | |
| be55888 | For example, in many developing countries, children, and in particular girls, do not spend enough time at school, even when school is free, to learn as they should. To change this, the following strategies have been suggested: *Unconditional cash transfers for girls; *Cash transfers for girls, conditional on attendance; *Merit scholarships for girls; *Free primary school uniforms; *Deworming through primary schools; *Providing information t.. | Peter Singer | ||
| 2fa499a | those who have enough to spend on luxuries, yet fail to share even a tiny fraction of their income with the poor, must bear some responsibility for the deaths they could have prevented. | peter singer | ||
| 2e92365 | The Law of the Twelve Tables, a Roman legislation circa 450 BC, actually required a father to put to death any deformed child (Cito necatus insignis ad deformitatem puer esto). (Modern moral philosophers, like Joseph Fletcher and Princeton University's Peter Singer, advocate the same thing.) | Robert J. Hutchinson | ||
| 3abc1b6 | Whether particular people with the capacity to take an objective point of view actually do take this objective viewpoint into account when they act will depend on the strength of their desire to avoid inconsistency between the way they reason publicly and the way they act. | Peter Singer | ||
| 71cac96 | Egoism... is not eliminated by economic reorganization or by material abundance. When basic needs are satisfied, new 'needs' emerge. In our society, people want no simply clothes, but fashionable clothes; not shelter, but a house to display their wealth and taste. | Peter Singer | ||
| aa9d444 | The Western principle of the sanctity of human life--a principle which is unique in the sharpness with which it separates the wrongness of taking the life of any human being, no matter how severely defective, from the wrongness of taking the life of any non-human animal, no matter how intelligent--can, as I have argued elsewhere, be explained as the legacy of the Judeo-Christian world view, in which humans, but not animals, are made in the .. | Peter Singer | ||
| 599c78a | What she really wants is a place with more tolerance for differences, less emphasis on materialism, where people value creativity and are interested in working on issues relating to peace and justice. | Peter Singer | ||
| 2318161 | The ethic of autonomy is based on the idea that people are, first and foremost, autonomous individuals with wants, needs, and preferences. People should be free to satisfy these wants, needs, and preferences as they see fit, and so societies develop moral concepts such as rights, liberty, and justice, which allow people to coexist peacefully without interfering too much in each other's projects. This is the dominant ethic in individualistic.. | Jonathan Haidt | ||
| 7cf3e54 | Recently I have been attacked in newspapers by two 'fabulist' writers, as far as I can make out for the ordinariness of the worlds I portray. To which the most obvious reply is that it's all very well writing about elves and dragons and goddesses rising out of the ground and the rest of it--who couldn't do that and make it colorful? (Readable, of course, is another matter...) But writing about pubs and struggling singer-songwriters--well, t.. | Nick Hornby | ||
| f3100da | Pacifists have usually regarded the use of violence as absolutely wrong, irrespective of its consequences. This, like other 'no matter what' prohibitions, assumes the validity of the distinction between acts and omissions. Without this distinction, pacifists who refuse to use violence when it is the only means of preventing greater violence would be responsible for the greater violence they fail to prevent. | ethics pacifism violence | Peter Singer | |
| f1e7532 | Whereas the property-owning middle class could win freedom for themselves on the basis of rights to property--thus excluding others from the freedom they gain--the property-less working class possess nothing but their title as human beings. Thus they can liberate themselves only by liberating all humanity. | marxism proletariat property-rights | Peter Singer | |
| dbc2b93 | The suffering of abused pets amounts to a tiny fraction of the suffering we inflict on animals. In 2012 there were 164 million owned dogs and cats in the United States.2 The majority of them probably live reasonably good lives, but even if every single one of them were abused, this number would be dwarfed by the 9.1 billion animals annually raised and slaughtered for food in the United States.3 Factory-farmed animals have to endure a lifeti.. | Peter Singer | ||
| 84be53d | In some parts of the world, what you are doing is already apparent. According to the World Health Organization, the warming of the planet caused an additional 140,000 deaths in 2004, as compared with the number of deaths there would have been had average global temperatures remained as they were during the period 1961 to 1990. This means that climate change is already causing, every week, as many deaths as occurred in the terrorist attacks .. | environmental-ethics global-warming population-ethics | Peter Singer | |
| 1c9d560 | There are some things that, once lost, no amount of money can regain. Thus to justify the destruction of an ancient forest on the grounds that it will earn us substantial export income is problematic, even if we could invest that income and increase its value from year to year; for no matter how much we increase its value, its could never buy back the link with the past represented by the forest. | environmentalism ethics moral-philosophy | Peter Singer | |
| 2b155c9 | That was the thing about Joy Division: writing the songs was dead easy because the group was really balanced; we had a great guitarist, a great drummer, a great bass player, a great singer. | Peter Hook | ||
| c6688c9 | Most effective altruists are not saints but ordinary people like you and me, so very few effective altruists claim to live a fully ethical life. Most of them are somewhere on the continuum between a minimally acceptable ethical life and a fully ethical life. That doesn't mean that they are constantly feeling guilty about not being morally perfect. Effective altruists don't see a lot of point in feeling guilty. They prefer to focus on the go.. | Peter Singer | ||
| a3c0362 | If you agree that bringing someone into existence can be bad for that person and if you also accept the argument that bringing someone into existence can't be good for that person, then this leads to a strange conclusion: being born could harm you but it couldn't help you. | peter singer | ||
| 720226c | Reason is inherently expansionist. It seeks universal application. | Peter Singer | ||
| b1f3fd0 | We do not have to make self-sacrifice a necessary element of altruism. We can regard people as altruists because of the kind of interests they have rather than because they are sacrificing their interests. | Peter Singer | ||
| f154cb6 | We have no obligation to assist countries whose governments have policies that will undermine the effectiveness of our aid. | ethics global-warming | Peter Singer | |
| cde1e6e | If you are paying for something to drink when safe drinking water comes out of the tap, you have money to spend on things you don't really need. Around the world, a billion people struggle to live each day on less than you paid for that drink. | Peter Singer | ||
| 086bacf | I'm hoping that you will look at the larger picture and think about what it takes to live ethically in a world in which 18 million people are dying unnecessarily each year. That's a higher annual death rate than in World War II. In the past twenty years alone, it adds up to more deaths than were caused by all the civil and international wars and government repression of the entire twentieth century, the century of Hitler and Stalin. How muc.. | Peter Singer | ||
| bf9d1e3 | In the Talmud (a record of discussions of Jewish law and ethics by ancient rabbis) it is said that charity is equal in importance to all the other commandments combined, and that Jews should give at least 10 percent of their income as tzedakah. | Peter Singer | ||
| 55e1e93 | We have still not answered the question of when an experiment might be justifiable. It will not do to say "Never!" Putting morality in such black-and-white terms is appealing, because it eliminates the need to think about particular cases; but in extreme circumstances, such absolutist answers always break down. Torturing a human being is almost always wrong, but it is not absolutely wrong. If torture were the only way in which we could disc.. | Peter Singer | ||
| c546513 | When punk and new wave styles exploded in the late '70s, some established artists were nimble enough to respond to the changes around them. Some grumbled, "What am I supposed to do, forget how to play?", and continued to ride their dinosaurs into extinction, but others willingly adapted to the streamlining and back-to-basics urges of the times, without giving up all they had learned. Former Genesis singer Peter Gabriel, for example, or form.. | Neil Peart | ||
| 55180d2 | If we have learned anything from the liberation movements, we should have learned how difficult it is to be aware of the ways in which we discriminate until they are forcefully pointed out to us. A liberation movement demands an expansion of our moral horizons, so that practices that were previously regarded as natural and inevitable are now seen as intolerable. | equality liberation oppression vegan veganism | Peter Singer | |
| 3f9b2a0 | Effective altruism is an advance in ethical behavior as well as in the practical application of our ability to reason. I have described it as an emerging movement, and that term suggests that it will continue to develop and spread. If it does, then once there is a critical mass of effective altruists, it will no longer seem odd for anyone to regard bringing about "the most good I can do" as an important life goal. If effective altruism does.. | Peter Singer | ||
| f95e64b | In the United States, 97 percent of those classified by the Census Bureau as poor own a color TV. | Peter Singer |