The Interpretation of the Laws of Nature in a Common-wealth, dependeth not on the books of Moral Philosophy. The Authority of writers,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“...most gentlemen of breeding considered themselves amateurs at all kinds of disciplines. Go all the way back to Jefferson, who collected fossils… — Jack Hitt Copy Share Image
The Consequentialist trinity is typically regarded in this way: Bentham is crude, Mill's writings are full of howlers and inconsistencies, and Sidgwick… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
I would say the 1980s, most importantly, there's been a witnessing of the bankruptcy of the liberal philosophy and the anti-moral and… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
Don't Shoot is a work of moral philosophy that reads like a crime novel - Immanuel Kant meets Joseph Wambaugh. It's a… — John Seabrook Copy Share Image
I would say to anybody who thinks that all the problems in philosophy can be translated into empirically verifiable answers - whether… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“Almost every single intellectual has been obsessed with an illustrious question - what drives morality! Yet none of them has been able… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
God doesn't help. I think that's a knockdown argument. I think that it really shows that whatever moral knowledge we have and… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
It should be apparent that the belief in objectivity in journalism, as in other professions, is not just a claim about what… — Michael Schudson Copy Share Image
“The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I do not believe that a moral philosophy can ever be founded on a scientific basis. … The valuation of life and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We are now returning to the 18th century empirical approach with the new interest in the evolutionary basis of ethics, with 'experimental'… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
