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John Haldane

Seeking Meaning and Making Sense

Collection of short essays that range across philosophy, politics, general culture, morality, science, religion and art, focusing on questions of meaning, value and understanding.
180 páginas impressas
Ano da publicação
2017
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  • Nikolai C.fez uma citaçãohá 3 anos
    Thus, you or I might tolerate economic and social inequalities related to ability and achievement, but only if provision is made for the disadvantaged. After all, we might be fortunate, but equally we might not be
  • Nikolai C.fez uma citaçãohá 3 anos
    ust as for Hume morality lies in the human mind, not in a world of moral facts; so our beliefs about the world itself are human conjectures fashioned on the basis of impressions of colour, shape, sound, odour, taste and texture. Hume’s account of knowledge as based in experience is in the tradition of British empiricism, but Hume was much more radical than had been John Locke in the previous century
  • Nikolai C.fez uma citaçãohá 3 anos
    At best reason is the organisation of desires; all it can do is co-ordinate preferences and work out means to their satisfaction
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