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From the first hours of his term, Macron will have to apply himself to the task of truth and unity that, as a perceptive reader of the Christian philosopher Paul Ricoeur, he made the focus of his campaign.
The Value of a Pale Blue DotMelbourne – The eighteenth-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant wrote: “Two things fill the heart with ever renewed and increasing awe and reverence, the more often and more steadily we meditate upon them: the starry firmament above and the moral law within.”
In his essay “Dreams and Facts,” the philosopher Bertrand Russell wrote that our entire Milky Way galaxy is a tiny fragment of the universe, and within this fragment our solar system is “an infinitesimal speck,” and within this speck “our planet is a microscopic dot.”
The Lonely Arab CrowdPARIS – In The Hubris of the Zero Point, the Colombian philosopher Santiago Castro-Gomez describes René Descartes’s 1637 declaration “I think, therefore I am” as the moment white Europeans installed themselves above God as the sole arbiters of knowledge and truth.
Macquarie University’s Andrew Barron, a cognitive scientist, and Colin Klein, a philosopher, argue that subjective experience could be more widespread in the animal kingdom – and older, in evolutionary terms – than we realize.
We can see this process in sharp relief when, following the philosopher Sir Isaiah Berlin, we classify experts as “hedgehogs” or “foxes.”
The philosopher Isaiah Berlin famously distinguished between two styles of thinking, which he identified with the hedgehog and the fox.
According to the philosopher Abdolkarim Soroush, this distinction between religious beliefs and civil rights should be obvious.
Indeed, the late Iranian writer and philosopher Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri fell out with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, after being designated his successor, over policies that he believed infringed on people’s fundamental rights and freedoms.
But imagine, in the spirit of the philosopher John Rawls's famous thought experiment in his book A Theory of Justice, that you do get to choose the rules - although without knowing who you will be in such a hypothetical society.
In her 1967 essay “Truth and Politics,” the philosopher Hannah Arendt noted that, “Freedom of opinion is a farce unless factual information is guaranteed and the facts themselves are not in dispute.”
Or, in the more elevated language of the twentieth century’s most influential liberal philosopher, John Rawls, this appears to be a “practical dilemma which philosophy alone cannot resolve.”
Board members need to rethink what they are doing in those rooms, and here individual directors’ guiding principle should be the “veil of ignorance” proposed by the political philosopher John Rawls in his 1971 treatise A Theory of Justice.
The Heart of ReconstructionCAPETOWN – As theeighteenth-century theological philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg reminds us, thewritten word is humankind’s exclusive property.
The Russian philosopher Ivan Shmelev named it “the great beating of Russia.”
As the philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah has put it, “Thou shalt not kill is a test you take pass-fail.
In 1903, a student at the University of Cambridge, one John Maynard Keynes, wrote an essay on the conservative philosopher Edmund Burke, in which appears a pearl of wisdom for our own time.
Indeed, the French philosopher Marcel Gauchet entitled a recent book Democracy Against Itself.
As the great political philosopher Karl Popper taught us, the only thing we should be intolerant of is intolerance itself.
There was the response of the philosopher and musicologist Vladimir Jankélévitch: Germany’s ontological culpability, Hitler’s irremediable corruption of its language, and a vow never again to have anything to do with its culture or people.
The world, French philosopher Gaston Bachelard said a century ago, could be reduced to a series of copyrights.
In a speech lauding peace, science, and law, she paraphrased the philosopher Martin Heidegger, proclaiming “only a word can save us.”
As a card-carrying member of the economics profession, I have been trained to view the world from the perspective of the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham, according to whom the purpose of public policy is to create the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people.
It is also the autobiographical self – through the narrative that it creates about itself – that makes life something more than what the American writer, artist, and philosopher Elbert Hubbard once called “one damn thing after another.”
As the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre argued in After Virtue, narratives frame individuals’ moral choices.
Liberal World Order, R.I.P.NEW DELHI – After a run of nearly one thousand years, quipped the French philosopher and writer Voltaire, the fading Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire.
To paraphrase the philosopher Thomas Hobbes, they expect youngsters’ lives to be solitary, poor, nasty, brutish – and long.
The philosopher Berel Lang brilliantly analyzed how cataclysmic violence reshapes our conception of the world.
According to Mussolini’s 1932 essay La dottrina del fascismo (The Doctrine of Fascism), written with the philosopher Giovanni Gentile, fascism opposes democracy, socialism, liberalism, and individualism (in addition to Bolshevism, parliamentarianism, Freemasonry, pacifism, and egalitarianism).
He was a world-renowned philosopher, a professor at great universities – Oxford, Yale, Chicago – and someone who was respected and admired by his colleagues around the world.
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