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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 бумажных страниц
Год выхода издания
2017
Издательства
Andrews UK, Imprint Academic
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  • Nikolai C.цитирует3 года назад
    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.цитирует3 года назад
    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.цитирует3 года назад
    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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