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And we get it not from a philosopher of art, not from a postmodern art theorist or a bigwig art critic.
So I'm going to speak about a problem that I have and that's that I'm a philosopher.
Here's how a philosopher explains the sawing-the-lady-in-half trick.
The philosopher says, "I'm going to explain to you how that's done.
Well, remember the philosopher's explanation of the lady?
Alasdair MacIntyre, the famous philosopher, said that, "We have the concepts of the ancient morality of virtue, honor, goodness, but we no longer have a system by which to connect them."
He was a philosopher.
Activist, philosopher, writer Cornel West says that "Justice is what love looks like in public."
I myself am a philosopher, and one of our occupational hazards is that people ask us what the meaning of life is.
A few years ago, I felt like I was stuck in a rut, so I decided to follow in the footsteps of the great American philosopher, Morgan Spurlock, and try something new for 30 days.
Educator and philosopher Paulo Freire believed that teaching and learning should be two-way.
The philosopher Denis Dutton in his wonderful book "The Art Instinct" makes the case that, "The value of an artwork is rooted in assumptions about the human performance underlying its creation."
I'd been reading this great American philosopher named Grace Lee Boggs who happened to live in Detroit, and she said something I can't forget.
A then unknown philosopher named Adam Smith wrote a book in 1759 called "The Theory of Moral Sentiments."
But he was, in fact, a moral philosopher, and he was right on why we're moral.
There's a philosopher, Derek Parfit, who said some words that were inspiring to my coauthors and I.
And so one philosopher even wrote us that it was impossible that monkeys had a sense of fairness because fairness was invented during the French Revolution.
If you stand and stare out of the window on your own with a cigarette, you're a fucking philosopher.
It puts a certain vision of the good life out there in front of us, which is what Peter-Paul Verbeek, the Dutch philosopher of technology, says.
Secondly, from the [Austrian] anarchist philosopher Paul Feyerabend, facts are relative, and what is a massive right of self-reliance to a Nigerian businessperson is considered unauthorized and horrible to other people, and we have to recognize that there are differences in how people define things and what their facts are.
And my source on this is Hannah Arendt, the German philosopher who wrote a book called "The Human Condition."
To help you, I've got two things to leave you with, from two great philosophers, perhaps two of the greatest philosopher thinkers of the 20th century.
Indeed, the very famous philosopher Thomas Nagel once said, "To truly experience an alien life form on this planet, you should lock yourself inside a room with a flying, echolocating bat in complete darkness."
The philosopher Lao Tzu once said, "When you let go of what you are, you become what you might be."
The fourth explanation is captured in the title of a book called "The Expanding Circle," by the philosopher Peter Singer, who argues that evolution bequeathed humans with a sense of empathy, an ability to treat other peoples' interests as comparable to one's own.
But a wonderful guy he was, wonderful philosopher.
And I'm not just an academic, I'm a philosopher, so I like to think that I'm actually pretty good at arguing.
I'm primarily a moral philosopher.
Well the Greek philosopher Epicurus thought we could.
So 2,000 years later, another philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein, put it like this: "Death is not an event in life: We do not live to experience death.
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