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But Kolakowski was not a “technical” philosopher, writing for academic specialists.
He was a philosopher in the same sense that Socrates was: a thinker who questioned what others take for granted, and probed human feelings and actions to help us understand how we can better ourselves and lead lives that are morally superior, yet also more fulfilling.
As the Yale philosopher Thomas Pogge has pointed out, the task has been made easier by moving the goal posts.
One is what the liberal Israeli philosopher and peace activist Avishai Margalit has termed “moral racism.”
The French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut was right to criticize the Erdogan for over-reacting to the raid on the “Gaza freedom flotilla.”
The late American philosopher John Rawls suggested that the best way to judge the rightness of any social policy is to put oneself in the place of the underdogs before reaching a conclusion.
There seem to be two particularly important criteria for great leadership, both noted by the political philosopher Isaiah Berlin.
What we see in countries such as Egypt and Turkey – and even in Syria – is what the great British liberal philosopher Isaiah Berlin described as the incompatibility of equal goods.
The philosopher Peter Singer discusses the notion of a moral circle – the circle of things that matter to us, that have moral significance.
The economist and philosopher Amartya Sen famously demonstrated that famines do not occur in democracies with a free press, because their governments cannot ignore the suffering.
The philosopher Josh Greene and his colleagues at Princeton University have shown that personal moral dilemmas (for example, whether you would directly kill one person to save seven others) use our emotions rather than higher cognition – to the chagrin of many philosophers who claimed otherwise.
The great twentieth-century philosopher Karl Popper, one of Marx’s strongest critics, rightly called him a “false prophet.”
Giving the Well-Performing State Its DueMADRID – The triumph of democracy and market-based economics – the “End of History,” as the American political philosopher Francis Fukuyama famously called it – which was proclaimed to be inevitable with the fall of the Berlin Wall, soon proved to be little more than a mirage.
“Truth and utility,” wrote Francis Bacon, the early seventeenth-century English philosopher and statesman, “are the very same things.”
The Great Ape DebateIn his History of European Morals, published in 1869, the Irish historian and philosopher W.E.H. Lecky wrote:At one time the benevolent affections embrace merely the family, soon the circle expanding includes first a class, then a nation, then a coalition of nations, then all humanity and finally, its influence is felt in the dealings of man with the animal world...
I founded the Great Ape Project together with Paola Cavalieri, an Italian philosopher and animal advocate, in 1993.
Europe’s Trial by CrisisBERLIN – Some 2,500 years ago, the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus concluded that war is the father of all things.
As the philosopher Peter Singer showed in his book One World, a united front against the biggest problems facing the world will require a fundamental shift in attitude – away from parochialism and toward a redefinition of self-interest.
The political philosopher Francis Fukuyama goes so far as to say that “vetocracy” could triumph over democracy, regardless of who wins the 2012 presidential election.
Clearly, the poet and philosopher Paul Valéry was right: “The future, like everything else, is no longer what it used to be.”
Tellingly, that sign was flanked by posters for the left-wing anarchist philosopher Noam Chomsky and the right-wing libertarian politician Ron Paul.
The seventeenth-century French philosopher René Descartes solved it by the drastic expedient of denying that animals can suffer.
The great 20 th century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein proposed a different approach to troublesome definitions: explaining concepts by the analogy of "family resemblances."
William of Ockham, the fourteenth-century British philosopher, famously postulated that, when bamboozled in the face of competing explanations, we ought to opt for the one with the fewest assumptions and the greatest simplicity.
The French philosopher Paul Valéry believed that history teaches nothing, “for it contains everything and furnishes examples of everything.”
The Perverse Politics of Financial CrisisCHICAGO – In trying to understand the pattern and timing of government interventions during a financial crisis, we should probably conclude that, to paraphrase the French philosopher Blaise Pascal, politics have incentives that economics cannot understand.
I tend to agree with the philosopher Peter Singer that the obscene sums being spent on premier pieces of modern art are disquieting.
The Hungarian-British philosopher Aurel Kolnai wrote a well-known book in the 1930s, entitled War Against the West, by which he meant the Nazi war against Western democracies.
Dosse not only taught Macron at Sciences Po in the late 1990s, but also introduced him to his intellectual mentor, French philosopher Paul Ricoeur, for whom Macron worked as a research assistant for two years.
This was also the Tokyo visited frequently by Rabindranath Tagore, Bengal’s great national poet and philosopher who inspired Mahatma Gandhi.
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