The very essence of civilized culture is that we deliberately institute, in advance of the happening of various contingencies and emergencies of… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Citizens often think of a state's interests in terms of the promotion of ideals such as democracy, a particular way of life,… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Bentham spent much of his life writing constitutions and proposing legal reform in the light of his utilitarianism. The evaluation of particular… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
[This approach] displays the characteristic philosophical lust to vanquish the skeptic by arguing him out of his skepticism, without appeal to moral… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Much of the point of individual action is really to communicate with other people and with political leaders and to demonstrate to… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Since we're not very good at something as basic as controlling our reproduction, life is really bad for more people than ever… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
People will suffer and so will nature, but life is likely to go on with a great deal of loss and mourning.… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Environmental problems provoke challenges about what kind of world we want, how important we think it is if something is brought about… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
In the last few centuries we've managed to reduce how much we kill each other, we've learned some basic lessons about public… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Well, one measure of a good life, I think, is to be engaged in projects that one thinks are meaningful and worthwhile.… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
I think, questions about what it means to respect nature become very important because just as in human society, for example, part… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
If we're interested in the continuation of the human experiment we need to focus on resilience and coping with change (whether natural… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
People with long memories and a vivid sense of the past have an immediate understanding of politicians like Donald Trump. They are not surprised… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
On my reading of history people who want to bring us the best are usually the people we ought to be afraid of. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
We know the "great men" and a handful of heavily cited papers in our specialization. When there is a historical frame around a paper… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
The very essence of civilized culture is that we deliberately institute, in advance of the happening of various contingencies and emergencies of life, devices… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
I see a lot of individual action when it comes to environmental questions really as a form of politics as a way of communicating… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Moral revolutions are typically seen retrospectively. Prospectively, the revolutionaries tend to look like crazy people, and sometimes they are. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
In this era of globalization we are witnessing struggles within individual states about what their identity and interests consist in. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
You can't imagine anything like nature as we know it without predators. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Climate change involves fundamental choices about how we want to live and what kind of world we want. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Our traditional systems of decision-making are just not up to preventing changes in fundamental earth systems that are driven by a constant barrage of… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
One of the real dangers of our time is people's indifference to history. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image