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| cd4827b | P]resupposition, principles, and such like forms still adorn the entrance to philosophy with their cobwebs. | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ||
| b550ceb | When, therefore, a man is told, "You (your inner being) are so and so, because your skull-bone is so constituted," this means nothing else than that we regard a bone as the man's reality. To retort upon such a statement with a box on the ear -- in the way mentioned above when dealing with psysiognomy -- removes primarily the "soft" parts of his head from their apparent dignity and position, and proves merely that these are no true inherent .. | physiognomy retort | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | |
| 37c1688 | Should thousands of animals suffer so that a new kind of lipstick or floor wax can be put on the market? | Peter Singer | ||
| 4931c88 | If a falcon hunts mice he is worthless. | Arabic proverbs | ||
| f90301a | La belleza carente de fuerza odia al entendimiento porque este exige de ella lo que no esta en condiciones de dar. Pero la vida del espiritu no es la vida que se asusta ante la muerte y se mantiene pura de la desolacion, sino la que sabe afrontarla y mantenerse en ella. El espiritu solo conquista su verdad cuando es capaz de encontrarse a si mismo en el absoluto desgarramiento. El espiritu no es esta potencia como lo positivo que se aparta .. | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ||
| f40b7e8 | Kant ist uber dieses ausserliche Verhaltnis des Verstandes als des Vermogens der Begriffe und des Begriffes selbst zum Ich hinausgegangen. Es gehort zu den tiefsten und richtigsten Einsichten, die sich in der Kritik der Vernunft finden, dass die Einheit, die das Wesen des Begriffs ausmacht, als die ursprunglich-synthetische Einheit der Apperzeption, als Einheit des >>Ich denke<< oder des Selbstbewusstseins erkannt wird | einheit-der-apperzeption hegel kant selbstbewusstsein verstand | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | |
| 39da223 | Uchenaia eruditsiia sostoit imenno v tom, chtoby znat' massu bezpoleznykh veshchei, t.e. takikh veshchei kotorye sami po sebe bezsoderzhatel'ny i lisheny vsiakogo interesa, a interesny dlia uchenogo erudita tol'ko lish' potomu, chto on ikh znaet. | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ||
| 14ff688 | Aber die Philosophie soll keine Erzahlung dessen sein, was geschieht, sondern eine Erkenntnis dessen, was wahr darin ist, und aus dem Wahren soll sie ferner das begreifen, was in der Erzahlung als ein blosses Geschehen erscheint. | metaphilosophie philosophie | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | |
| b013b8d | Pues "metafisica" es la palabra, al igual que "abstracto" y casi tambien "pensar", de la que todo el mundo huye mas o menos como de alguien atacado por la peste." | metafísica pensar | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | |
| 117fb56 | Therefore, while the revolution was undeniably a transforming event, it was not about the "fundamental transformation" of American civil society itself, as President Barack Obama would proclaim about his own election. Moreover, its purpose and principles were the antithesis of and incompatible with the philosophies that undergird the modern Progressive Movement, such as those espoused by German philosophers Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and.. | Mark R. Levin | ||
| 43b420d | In the words of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, "Human nature only really exists in an achieved community of minds." | Alena Graedon | ||
| 00e0de9 | Wahrheit heisst Ubereinstimmung des Begriffs mit seiner Wirklichkeit. | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ||
| d0eb61f | Only by resolving can a human being step into actuality, however bitter this may be to him. Inertia lacks the will to abandon the inward brooding which allows it to retain everything as as a possibility. But possibility is not yet actuality. | Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich | ||
| 221253e | Under Weiss's direction, Grace began to delve deeply into writings and ideas that would shape the rest of her life. To begin with, Weiss introduced her to the works of German philosophers Immanuel Kant and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. "Kant made a lot of sense to me," she recalled, because his Critique of Pure Reason (1781) and Critique of Practical Reason (1788) resonated with and affirmed her skepticism of traditional philosophy. She wa.. | Stephen Ward | ||
| c260892 | Ishq and Mushq. | Peter Singer | ||
| 7436cc1 | Any wise enemy is better than an ignorant friend. | Arabic proverbs | ||
| 2270b5d | As the United States lagged behind the civilized world in outlawing human slavery, so the United States now lags behind in softening the unrestrained brutalities of animal slavery. | Peter Singer | ||
| 8cdf841 | The food of the lion (causes) indigestion to the wolf. | Arabic proverbs | ||
| d9e7039 | The remedy may be worse than the disease. | Arabic proverbs | ||
| 44acb73 | Being a bystander to suffering is not an option. | Peter Singer | ||
| 26439bb | Riches have disclosed in thy character the bad qualities formerly hhidden by thy poverty. | Arabic proverbs | ||
| 031ea84 | If the foundations of an ideological position are knocked out from under it, new foundations will be found, or else the ideological position will just hang there, defying the logical equivalent of the laws of gravity. | Peter Singer | ||
| 791495c | Those who lie and cheat, but do not believe what they are doing to be wrong, may be living according to ethical standards. They may believe, for any of a number of possible reasons, that it is right to lie, cheat, steal and so on. They are not living according to conventional ethical standards, but they may be living according to some other ethical standards. | lie standard | Peter Singer | |
| 6decb98 | Marx's first point is one still made by critics of the modern consumer society: A house may be large or small; as long as the surrounding houses are equally small it satisfies all social demands for a dwelling. But let a palace arise beside the little house, and it shrinks from a little house to a hut... however high it may shoot up in the course of civilization, if the neighbouring palace grows to an equal or even greater extent, the occup.. | Peter Singer | ||
| f839430 | When we make ethical judgments, we must go beyond a personal or sectional point of view and take into account the interests of all those affected, unless we have sound ethical grounds for doing otherwise. This means that we weigh interests, considered simply as interests and not as my interests, or the interests of people of European descent, or of people with IQs higher than 100. This provides us with a basic principle of equality: the pri.. | interests utilitarianism | Peter Singer | |
| 724685c | Probably the best-known tenet of modern moral philosophy: the doctrine that there is an unbridgeable gulf between facts and values, between descriptions of what is and prescriptions of what ought to be. | Peter Singer | ||
| 426754c | If our holding certain values had no effect at all on what we chose to do, values would lose all their importance. Now | Peter Singer | ||
| c0f7a8f | The capacity for suffering - or more strictly, for suffering and/or enjoyment or happiness - is not just another characteristic like the capacity for language or for higher mathematics. Bentham is not saying that those who try to mark 'the insuperable line' that determines whether the interests of a being should be considered happen to have selected the wrong characteristic. The capacity for suffering and enjoying things is a prerequisite f.. | suffering utilitarianism | Peter Singer | |
| c22507d | I love you so I overlook your defects. I hate you so I magnify your shortcomings. | Arabic proverbs | ||
| d5f9f87 | Suppose that we believe that in 200 years, people would be prepared to pay a million dollars (that's in today's dollars, not inflated ones) to be able to have an unspoilt valley. Now imagine that today we can profit by cutting down the forest in the valley, which will never regrow. If we apply an annual discount rate of 5 percent, compounded exponentially, how big would that profit have to be to justify the loss of a million dollars in 2210.. | environment ethics | Peter Singer | |
| 03f6b87 | For preference utilitarians, taking the life of a person will normally be worse than taking the life of some other being, because persons are highly future-oriented in their preferences. To kill a person is therefore, normally, to violate not just one but a wide range of the most central and significant preferences a being can have. Very often, it will make nonsense of everything that the victim has been trying to do in the past days, month.. | ethics preference utilitarianism | Peter Singer | |
| 4ceacaf | The merely conscious being does not have a preference for continued life. Perhaps while having a pleasurable experience it has a preference for that experience to continue, or while having a painful experience it has a preference for that experience to end, but it will not have any preferences for the long-term future, and the desires it has do not survive periods of sleep or temporary unconsciousness, because unlike a self-aware being, it .. | ethics utilitarianism | Peter Singer | |
| 8bbf670 | For a merely conscious being, death is the cessation of experiences, in much the same way that birth is the beginning of experiences. Death cannot be contrary to an interest in continued life any more than birth could be in accordance with an interest in commencing life. To this extent, with merely conscious beings, birth and death cancel each other out; whereas with self-aware beings, the fact that one may desire to continue living means t.. | ethics experience preference utilitarianism | Peter Singer | |
| afc1f00 | I agree with Varner and Scruton that the more one thinks of one's life as a story that has chapters still to be written, and the more one hopes for achievements yet to come, the more one has to lose by being killed. For this reason, when there is an irreconcilable conflict between the basic survival needs of animals and of normal humans, it is not speciesist to give priority to the lives of those with a biographical sense of their life and .. | ethics preference utilitarianism | Peter Singer | |
| 2418aad | My suggestion, then, is that we accord the fetus no higher moral status than we give to a nonhuman animal at a similar level of rationality, self-consciousness, awareness, capacity to feel and so on. Because no fetus is a person, no fetus has the same claim to life as a person. Until a fetus has some capacity for conscious experience, an abortion terminates an existence that is - considered as it is and not in terms of its potential - more .. | ethics utilitarianism | Peter Singer | |
| b8340a7 | In the absence of any general inference from 'A is a potential X' to 'A has the rights of an X', we should not accept that a potential person should have the rights of a person, unless we can be given some specific reason why this should hold in this particular case. | personhood utilitarianism | Peter Singer | |
| 657c8f9 | We spend most of our lives with unfulfilled desires, and the occasional satisfactions that are all most of us can achieve are insufficient to outweigh these prolonged negative states. If we think that this is a tolerable state of affairs it is because we are, in Benatar's view, victims of the illusion of pollyannaism. This illusion may have evolved because it helped our ancestors survive, but it is an illusion nonetheless. If we could see o.. | philosophy | Peter singer | |
| 7380326 | In thinking about ethics, we should not hesitate to question ethical views that are almost universally accepted if we have reasons for thinking that they may not be as securely grounded as they appear to be. | reasoning | Peter Singer | |
| 2c181cf | A week-old baby is not a rational and self-aware being, and there are many nonhuman animals whose rationality, self-awareness, capacity to feel and so on, exceed that of a human baby a week or a month old. If, for the reasons I have given, the fetus does not have the same claim to life as a person, it appears that the newborn baby does not either. | utilitarianism | Peter Singer | |
| 06e2d6f | Where those who hold the liberal conception of freedom would say we are free because we are not subject to deliberate interference by other humans, Marx says we are not free because we do not control our own society. Economic relations between human beings determine not only our wages and our prospects of finding work, but also our politics, our religion, and our ideas. These economic relations force us into a situation in which we compete .. | Peter Singer | ||
| ae4d9f3 | If you steal from a thief, you also have a taste of it. | Aramaic proverbs | ||
| afbb222 | Our ancestors lived in groups of no more than a few hundred people, and those on the other side of a river or mountain range might as well have been living in a separate world. We developed ethical principles to help us to deal with problems within our community, not to help those outside it. The harms that it was considered wrong to cause were generally clear and well defined. We developed inhibitions against, and emotional responses to, s.. | evolution history | Peter Singer | |
| 472377d | If we avoid junk foods that are high in sugar or fats and nothing else, about the only way we can fail to get enough protein is if we are on a diet that is insufficient in calories.36 Protein | Peter Singer | ||
| f8e9e00 | First premise: If we can prevent something bad without sacrificing anything of comparable significance, we ought to do it. Second premise: Extreme poverty is bad. Third premise: There is some extreme poverty we can prevent without sacrificing anything of comparable moral significance. Conclusion: We ought to prevent some extreme poverty. | poverty utilitarianism | Peter Singer |